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stephen_v

I had recently a carpenter in. He accidently bent a pipe serving a radiator to about 45 degrees. rather tham risk bending it back and flooding the kitchen I asked a heating engineer to fix. He said it would cost £130.00(£30 parts 100 labor ie lifting floor boards etc). decided to wait as want new rads anyway so why waste the money. Now, today mid valve has failed. I called British gas out. He asked what was wrong with the pipe, said it was bent etc. he just bent it back(micorbore) and coneccted rad up. Was the independant ripping me off for £130?

also rads down stairs now not working BG said needs a power flush £600.00 ???

I'm also considering a new boiler and rads. Should I change the micorbore to 15mm copper pipe? or leave it.

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bockster

i'm not a gas man, but i'm not very happy with the microbore to my lounge rads, alway reduced flow to these. i might do away with it at the next decorating oportunity.

Canucklehead

stephen_v wrote: »

I'm also considering a new boiler and rads. Should I change the micorbore to 15mm copper pipe? or leave it.

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Good evening: Yes, swap to 15mm (and of course 22mm/28mm copper as necessitated by the CH system design)...what happened to the microbore demostrates one of its fatal flaws.New pipework, new rad/TRVs, new boiler/cylinder, controls etc. equals a spanking new system;)

HTH

Canucklehead

stephen_v

I'm finding now that if the rads are on upstairs then the rads downstairs are almopst cold. I've tried to balance them but if I turn the upstairs rads on at all the downstairs goes cold.. what can I do. is my pump on its way out??

Stephen

weekendwarrior

stephen_v wrote: »

I'm finding now that if the rads are on upstairs then the rads downstairs are almopst cold. I've tried to balance them but if I turn the upstairs rads on at all the downstairs goes cold.. what can I do. is my pump on its way out??

Stephen

Not an expert, but it sounds like the pump is goosed.

Not the easiest of jobs to do either- changing a central heating pump