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by PeteN
Fri Oct 31, 2008 8:49 pm
Forum: Plumbing Forum
Topic: Loss of water from cold storage tank
Replies: 11
Views: 10714

If all your cold is from the mains, my first thought would be you're losing water from a feed to a hot tap somewhere. Are there any hot water pipes (not heating) downstairs that go under the floor or anywhere that you havn't noticed leaking? Or maybe you have thirsty squirrels in your loft!
by PeteN
Fri Oct 31, 2008 9:05 am
Forum: Central Heating and Air conditioning and Ventilation Forum
Topic: radiators not balancing
Replies: 4
Views: 6327

The original troublesome rads were on 10mm drops down to ground floor. I took these off & capped drop pipes. The neighboring room has 15mm pipes dropping to feed two rads. I ran my new rad pipes (15mm) to connect into these. There's no separate circuit downstairs. Where originally I had 3 drops ...
by PeteN
Wed Oct 29, 2008 6:25 pm
Forum: Central Heating and Air conditioning and Ventilation Forum
Topic: radiators not balancing
Replies: 4
Views: 6327

Rads not balancing

The promp was: 2 single rads (in one room, fed from above on 10mm pipes dropped from above) never worked properly so I removed them, capped the pipes & ran 15mm from nearest downstairs flow & return pipes to a new double convector to replace the two removed. I've gone through all the standar...
by PeteN
Wed Oct 29, 2008 8:25 am
Forum: Central Heating and Air conditioning and Ventilation Forum
Topic: radiators not balancing
Replies: 4
Views: 6327

radiators not balancing

I've spent all day trying to balance radiators but with unsatisfactory results. Sealed system combi boiler. Mixture of 15mm & 10mm pipework. Mostly old rads. Rads are all full & pump seems to be working. With some of the rads it's not totally clear which is the flow & return (valve tops ...
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