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Afternoon folks:).

So finished my Electrical duties so she now has lights in the back and wots gonna be the new bathroom, all smoke kept in the wires:). Fink I may have talked myself into a bit of plumbing in a washing machine at the weekend:vb-groan2:.
The 2 of them go out for a walking in the mornings and I am sure they talk about how to get me to do stuff;).

J
 
marjon said:
Where did you get that from?
As you have an ATM system there is no extra pressure, I suppose it could be cos the water you bleed maybe blooming hot.
Is it better?

Who was the "somebody" or did you just take the blame, sometimes easier ;).

J
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Have discovered that when set to HW only, we have no hot water. :mad: (One gate valve on the bit of pipe that goes into the tank and presumably lets hot water from the boiler flow in or out of it, is probably jammed closed. I can only get it to move slightly in either direction, I must have closed it, in error, when trying to isolate the hot water system. )

So for the moment ignoring that and concentrating on what I hope is purely a, or more than one, airlock.
They are quite common, I have had one at least before and a heating engineer who was a member of my car club told me how to fix it.

I did check it out on tinternet just to make sure I wasn't yet again doing something stupid and yes, they are quite common.
so all rads closed now except for the one in the main bedroom, obvs have bled them all and none had any air. Waiting to see how hot it gets.

As for the hob. We were cooking dins together. She did chips in the oven in said oven pan. I boiled up some grren beans for myself.
The meat tin once empty must have been put on the ring.
She says by me, I say by her, .....

Anyway, it took effort but is clean as a new pin now.

See yez!
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Have discovered that when set to HW only, we have no hot water. :mad: (One gate valve on the bit of pipe that goes into the tank and presumably lets hot water from the boiler flow in or out of it, is probably jammed closed. I can only get it to move slightly in either direction, I must have closed it, in error, when trying to isolate the hot water system. )
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Got pics?
Dont see the need for a valve on the hot water coil:vb-confused2:
If you have only just closed it then its not jammed just closed against the taper (some gate valves taper some float) give it some more twist.
Stanleysteamer said:
She says by me, I say by her, .....
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Yep take 1 for the peace;).

J
 
marjon said:
Got pics?
Dont see the need for a valve on the hot water coil:vb-confused2:
If you have only just closed it then its not jammed just closed against the taper (some gate valves taper some float) give it some more twist.


Yep take 1 for the peace;).

J
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So do you just think I should just use "machanical means" to try and open it then? :eek::eek::eek:
 
Stanleysteamer said:
So do you just think I should just use "machanical means" to try and open it then? :eek::eek::eek:
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When I have a stuck valve I slacken off the nut just underneath the red wheel. (the nut with the tap spindle through it). Worked every time for me. Just a 1/4 of a turn should do it.
Additional; Tighten the nut up again after doing this, just a light nip is enough.
 
marjon said:
Got pics?
Dont see the need for a valve on the hot water coil:vb-confused2:
If you have only just closed it then its not jammed just closed against the taper (some gate valves taper some float) give it some more twist.


Yep take 1 for the peace;).

J
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J you were dead right. I was just scared of being too Neanderthal with it.
I took the handle off the top, gripped it with a spanner and once started I could finish opening it with the handle, hot water from the boiler now seems to be flowing through it.
Thanks, very much indeed for making me see sense. Of course I had only closed it the other day so it had no time to go fubar. :banana::banana::banana:
 
Wimblowdriver said:
When I have a stuck valve I slacken off the nut just underneath the red wheel. (the nut with the tap spindle through it). Worked every time for me. Just a 1/4 of a turn should do it.
Additional; Tighten the nut up again after doing this, just a light nip is enough.
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Ta mate. I had been taught that one by a plumber a while back, but this gate valve is so clean I didn't think it was that.
As it turned out I was just being too delicate with it. Once freed off I could open it with the handle. Without having to play with the, (is it the "gland") nut. But cheers as every little tip helps.:):):)
 
marjon said:
That looks like the cold feed to the hot water tank.
Which means you may have hot water from boiler but it can’t get out of the tank.
Do you actually have water at the hot taps?

J
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This is all solved now. The gate valve opened the hot feed to the coil, once done I had hot water at the taps in a very short time. working lovely now. (I had water at the taps all along once I stopped trying to turn the water off to both hot and cold. )

Still chasing the airlock(s) but getting there.
I have no idea what difference it makes but having a house built on a concrete slab, we have no floor boards downstairs, all the plumbing runs up and down the walls downstairs and across and around the cavity under the top floor boards. (Swedish timber framed design). Maybe this makes the airlocks more of a problem, maybe not. Dunno, (obvs!)
This means that if anyone wants to drain the heating system, they have to do it rad by rad, at least across the downstairs rads.
But it is OK as if you want to work on just one rad downstairs you just drain that rad, you can shut off the ones upstairs if you like. This is what I did when I moved/replaced two downstairs rads. They all came with drain cocks.
 
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