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Can't get high enough to photograph. Alas I can't afford a builder to reduce its height and my brickie skills are lacking. What's wrong with rendering,?

One of the stacks built in commons has blown the paint after 15years. I did prep the rest of the house but not the stack hence the mess it's in now. Looks like the surface of the bricks have truly blown off. I'm not going to the expense of rebuilding it do I want to render it. I'll be hiring a boom lift for the reach but I need to know what mix to use and basically how to render a stack!

One of the stacks built in commons has blown the paint after 15years. I did prep the rest of the house but not the stack hence the mess it's in now. Looks like the surface of the bricks have truly blown off. I'm not going to the expense of rebuilding it do I want to render it. I'll be hiring a boom lift for the reach but I need to know what mix to use and basically how to render a stack!

One rad with no trv..the ABV Wass the catalyst....turned it down BINGO!

Fireback is looking very fragile. Used as open fire most days but is it difficult to replace DIY? How do I measure for a new one. Concrete or clay. Fire cavity is 1950s Are there any fire regs to follow. All advice grateful for

Finally finally balanced the system...thanks to Chatgpt! I know I know but it's true. Had a very long 'conversation' about the history, boiler, system, issues....walked me through everything....took days of tweaking but the killer move???? Dialing down the ABV from 5 to 2 and voila! all 19 rads boiling, every room warm, able to turn off rads in unused rooms without issue. 3..2...1

Does that size sound right for 19 rads? I'm calculating the rad size for each room when the gadget arrives see if that's an issue too

I have a bungalow already...I rent it out! 🤣

The cost of heating the house! My average monthly winter bill is £300+ (I don't have the heating on timed) so the idea of running the heating overnight is terrifying 😳. I literally only put the heating on when it's freezing. I use small electric heaters in the rooms that I do use... But when I do run the heating I need all rads to heat up efficiently.

Well, only to Cadent.

Local company fitted but didn't do a flush. Fell out with him big time as turned out over weeks we were being slowly gassed!!

The boiler is 2 yrs old. Only drained fown once in 20yrs. The last rad I took of was very black so just assumed a good flush would eliminate one less question mark...? One rad is very temperamental. I'm genuinely too scared to run the heating too long to rebalance due to cost.!

I have! None have bothered to respond!!

Hi Jo I did the test last winter of closing all but the 4 and pushed the heat to those and they all heated up well. Pump is at highest setting dT on each rad varied wildly! I used a multimeter on every one trying to achieve 12 degrees ish but couldn't get anywhere close on any rad

Quick recap....19 rads, sealed system, 4 rads refuse to heat up. Last year, after much effort to balance all rads unsuccessfully I eventally shut off the 4 (conveniently in one room) rads and shut the door on them! Now I want to try and bring the 4 back to life. They are all the gtound floor and furthest from the boiler, all column rads with 2 being cast iron. The remaining 15 are all hot and functioning well. Is it simply a case of turning the 4 back on TRV AND LS and with abit of noodling hope they heat up or do I have to balance the whole system from scratch?