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Default Balancing radiators

On Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:43:30 -0000, thirty-six wrote:

On Dec 5, 3:11 pm, "Lieutenant Scott" wrote:
On Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:20:06 -0000, thirty-six wrote:
On Dec 4, 11:42 pm, "Lieutenant Scott" wrote:
http://diydata.com/projects/centralh...diator_balanci...


Why? Surely if your boiler is powerful enough you don't need to mess around like this. If your boiler can't heat all the radiators at once, your boiler is too small for the system. Even with all my radiators on full blast, the boiler doesn't run continuously.


I suspect then you have a microbore (8mm, 10mm) sealed system radially
distributed by a central manifold.


Of course. Do you mean to tell me that the large bore systems don't have a correspondingly larger bore pipe from the boiler to feed them? What ****t designed that?!?


Do you know anyone using a large bore system in a small house? Do you
alternatively mean minibore (22&15mm)? I would rather you get your
terminology in order before hurling insults.


Large in comparison to microbore ffs. You know perfectly well what I meant. So, answer the question, do you have a larger diameter pipe from the boiler than to each individual radiator? If not no wonder you need to do the silly balancing act.

Must not be operated without
corrosion inhibitor else you will possibly not be able to flush the
crap out the radiators while in situ.


I've been told by a heating engineer that's a load of crap.


Ho-ho.


So why have I never had a problem? I drained the system years ago and never put inhibitor back in. Are you cleverer than a Corgi registered professional?

No leaks are tolerable, and less likely.


Not sure what you mean.


I said LEAKS not LEEKS.


I know. So what did you mean?

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