Can Leaks in central heating radiators be fixed?
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- Опубликовано: 24 фев 2023
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Hi Al, maybe my question is one you could do a future video on?
Ive a pressurised system boiler (without an F&E tank in the loft), just installed. Couldnt have a combi because we have a pumped mixer shower which we wanted to keep. The water out of the hot taps is ample with the hot water tank thermostat set at 60.
However, this time of year, the cold water temperature, presumably in the loft tank, is very cold. This means by time water comes out of the showerhead, the water temperature is luke warm unless we override the shower mixer bar temperature setting, which in turn means the hot water tank is quickly emptied!
The loft tank has an insulation jacket but, is there any way I can increase the cold water temperature even by a few degrees so the hot water in the shower isnt luke warm or empties the hot water tank too quickly?
Thanks!
Only if the tank went into another cylinder first, that had a 300 watt or so, towel rail heater screwed into it, then that feed into the main cylinder. Old heater panels on roofs used to work in a similar way, pre heating tanks with dual heating coils to take the sting out of the cold water.. Of course you could always fit a larger cylinder. I will look into doling a video in case I come up with a better idea.
Hi Al and Jan ☺, that was an eggcelant story mate, and broiling up on your way home must have been eggsasperating, and an eggstraordinary situation to be in, but the shopkeeper came up whith the eggxact solution to your eggshell thin radiator, and it was not Go to work on an egg ,but get home on one. At which point I shall eggxit stage left and whish you both all the best,lol, Stuart UK.
Absolutely. That was right on the yolk. Ha ha.
I read about this egg sealer in a DIY Motoring mag in the late 80s. It won’t work with central heating radiators today though as no body can afford to turn the flow temperature of the boiler up enough to be able to cook an egg.
Ha ha about right.
On that note I had a 'Plastic Pig' Reliant Regal - three wheeler in my youth driving back home with 70 miles to go when it started throwing it down so I turned on the window wipers only to find that the wipers would only go one way and not return so I was well and truly snookered, drove as far as I dare when I saw a hitch hiker offered to give him a lift on one condition, I attached a piece of string to one wiper blade a fed it through the quarter light passenger window so he grabbed hold of the string and pulled the wipers back, this continued until it stopped raining and worked very well but by god did we laugh. I like to think it was improvisation and sheer luck me coming across this hitch hiker who was very happy to help
Ha ha fate works in strange ways sometimes.
Yep, that used to work just as using the wife's stockings to replace the fan belt... err she wasn't best pleased though!
Did that on a vauxhall carlton and the egg trick also in a cortina.If it gets you home it gets you home.
@@glennpowell3444 There was also a way to get home should a spring suddenly snap. I had a Morris Oxford and in those days they had leaf springs so I always stored a house brick in the boot. When a 'leaf' on the leaf spring snapped all you had to do was jack the car up, insert the brick, lower it back down onto the brick and drive (carefully) home - it worked!
Cant do nothing with these damm new cars.
I've heard a few people saying they've put an egg in their car radiator to seal it up. Brilliant. I shouldn't fancy trying it on these new cars though. There's a lot more can go wrong with them 🤣
Very true. You dont want to end up with egg on your face.
Eggcellent yarn; we know you were only yoking.
Dont be chicken try it ha ha.
Can't beat a patch but you can an egg. Seriously though, it's easy enough to cut a piece of 15mm copper pipe, flatten it to cover the offending cleaned up corroded area and solder on. Worked for me until I could get a new rad.
Thanks Tebbo..
Did the same trick in a cortina mk 4 funnily enough and worked well enough untill I replaced the rad.My father in law at the time told me to do it.
Egg actly, ha ha.
that cracked me up!.. apologies in advance LOL
Ha ha good one.
Are the radiator pipes pressurised like the cold water supply? House rads not car😂
No not the same pressure a lot less.
I thought you were going to say that the yoke was on you .
Right on and get egg on my face ha ha.
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Thanks Andrew
Fabricate a patch and weld it up!
Sounds like hard work.
done a few times 🤣
Great.
Iv done the same in the past and lasted years 😂
Cant beat a hard boiled egg.
@@dereton33 my old Austin maxi smelt of eggs for months every time I put the fan on 😂
C'mon guys, where's all the egg jokes? has no one said it's a cracking idea?
I did think you would all be on it by now. Ha ha.
If a radiator is leaking, the only thing to do is a new radiator. Anything else is not a fix it's a bodge
Cheers mate. Bodge it and scram.
Not an option, not worth the risk, if you are swapping out a gravity fed system to a pressurised combi. Any excessive rust on radiators should come with a caveat. A caution.
Eggs? "my girlfriend caught me with a chicken one. Boy, did I have egg on my face!" - Emo Philips.
Did you have to shell out loafer, ha ha.
@@dereton33 Ba boom,Tish!🥁 Very silly. I approve.👍
Using an egg to seal a radiator? That has to be some kind of yoke.
Ha ha good one.
Egg cellent joke!
@@mick1406 it was cracking
@@rickwookie Looks like the 'yolks' on me! Sorry! 'Shell' I get me coat! Woah - what have we started here!!!