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"Bloody thing kicked in at 5am and sounded like I had builders in, nearly gave me a heart attack, had to switch it off so it didn’t wake the kids! I had a rant at (the ex), he has finally said book a plumber! " Trying to get her to at least try and bleed the rads before calling the plumber!

Paint for sure. Wire brush and Hoover the concrete to get any of the surface laitance off. You WILL have it and the paint sticks so much better with it gone. Darn sight more difficult to get paint to stick if oily. Divide the area into rough square metre boxes with some chalk. Dollop X litres of paint per square and go mad with a sacrificial yard broom. Job done.

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched...

I went for a wall drain partly to keep the drain away from my UFH pipes. I was going to have a floor drain in the very corner but worried the trap could dry out due to heat from the slab. What clinched the wall drain was SWMBO wanting the corner mitred which effectively kicked the floor drain into touch. In an ideal world I'd have had the wall drain at the bottom of the mitred section (but wall drain is wider than the chosen tiles). Tbh I don't think the trap drying out will be an issue considering the time one child spends in the shower. More worried about how often I'll be taking the wall drain cover off to clean hair out of the trap!

I asked if it had been firing prior to today's efforts: "It was worse after today, but I also released the valve pump and let some air out as well... it’s still not coming out fast, but it is running at least"

It WAS firing I believe prior to her changing the actuator earlier today. I did offer to go over earlier.

Then another message she now has hot water back. I asked how: "I open a tap at the side, which I wonder if "the ex" closed slightly as it gurgled and then worked... still not firing heating but at least the water is coming out more than a trickle..."

She reckons it turns OK with the actuator off. Just messaged me that whatever she's done she now had no hot water either. I can see me going over there.

She keeps buggering about putting the acuator on either way. Seemingly it will but will only engage on the two lugs one way. Told her to put it on properly and diagnose from there. On the valve, port B is to the cylinder coil, port A to the rads which is correct. Reckons it's hot where red but cool where blue:

So white bit pointing down or up?

So you reckon this might be the wrong way around? Arrow is pointing up:

Seemingly so, yes. Overflowing out the side of the house to now and then. Getting her to check if the 3-port is the right way around. Seems her ex has had a go.

Pump has stopped leaking. She's been in the loft. Both header and cws tanks full and ball cocks working. Reckons loft is soaking wet with the smaller header tank "steaming". "Like a Turkish bath up there" she says. (It's a prefab, concrete ceilings so will take a while to come through if ever). Thinking pump gone u/s?

Bump...anyone? This way: Or this: Cheers

Gave her the new Drayton mid-port valve, she wanted to try and fit it herself. Fair play. Just messaged me. Reckons the bleed valve on the pump is leaking - she did undo it. She's just sent me this video. Sounds to me the system is running dry - but the pump bleed valve leaks? Suggest she checks the header tank ball cock?

Pretty sure the TRV is on the right way as in flow arrow to the rad. It was the ordinary valve on the left I was wondering whether it could go either way up.

TRV on, arrow pointing up: Is this valve the right way up or does it matter?

Me and a mate, just out of our apprenticeship had to "mastic" some brackets sticking out of a brick wall. We'd heard you used Fairy Liquid so went and bought a WHOLE BOX. We were squirting it on neat an making a right mess. The contractor went ape when it rained!

The towel rail came with these fixings: I had put 4 chunks of 6"x2" in the wall to screw to, you can see them here, to the left of the studs and foiled over: Shown here roughly centred on the wooden blocks. Do we think it's a bit low? Thanks.

Meanwhile back on Silly Street... 100mm of pir in the base of the trailer topped off with some ufh pipes. Next time it freezes connect to a handy pumped hot water source...home brew bfo solar thermal array? Tarp over the compost heap, dump the sand on that.....

Light a fire under it. It'll melt the water in the sand so the fire won't damage the trailer... Honest! (Mods, can we have a tongue in cheek emoji please!)

These tails have a captive nut on with the olive part-crimped in place. Looks to be a pig to get any PTFE tape on there.

I've created some very simple solids in Draftsight then tried to work on then in AutoCAD. YOU CAN'T!

Yep told her that. I reckon this Drayton one moves about 10-15deg either way if that. She's just Whatsapp'd me a minute ago and said she's whipped the actuator off and the spindle moves. Seems this Drayton one is a direct replacement for the BG one from what I've read. Actuators are interchangeable too it seems.

They don't move a lot do they? Just had a look at this (new) Drayton one.