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The braided link will have a slotted screw in the centre of the valve attached to the cold water pipe (the smaller one at the top), turn the screw a quarter turn, you will hear water going in to the system, turn it of as said before at 1.5 bar, I have to say also, that, that is some of the worst plumbing pipework I have ever seen :rolleyes:
The gauge could be the thing on the left before the lights on the front, may just be coloured green to red, dont go into the red.

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Do you think they used enough solder? :rolleyes:

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Haha, maybe Neil, plenty of heat, as borne out by all the burn marks, nothing straight or level, no earth bonding, cheap filling link, these are designes so that you have to call the installers to top up the boiler, hence they can charge you each time, trying to get some pictures off my camera to show the difference between that and a decent job!
Well I got some photos onto the computer... Dont know how to get them on here though! Duh!

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derekgas
Are you sure you are a plumber?
You don't seem to 'tut' or mention expensive much :)

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Haha, yes I am, I didnt qualify for the 'sucking air in and rubbing the hands' certificate! :rolleyes: And it has cost me an awful (scary) amount of money over the years!

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Not down to us! Tis just like the electric wiring in the kitchen, wired an under the cupboard light thro a socket on the wall..... with speaker wire!!!:rolleyes:

Can I do this with a screw driver?

Not too sure about this, there is the timer... 3 twisty things... summer and winter thing... "hot and cold thing" (not too sure what it is) for water and radiators. We had to get thermostats on all radiators as there is no thermo in the house
There are loads of lights on it, I'll have another look and see if I can see this gauge thing


Thanks again, the help is much appreciated:)

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Yes a screwdriver will do the job, I guessed the plumbing wasnt your doing, due to the companies name being on the front of the boiler, haha.
Where all the lights are in a row on the front, looks like the circular shaped thing on the left may be the gauge required.

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The red thing to the left your referring to Derek is a push button for somet..... not sure what

I can only see on the lights somet that says min, max and a green light in the middle which i presume is ok (1st 3 lights on bottom row)

One of the lights, last on the bottom row, comes on when heating on
Dunno what the rest are for

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Derek I hope that cable is not staying in that notched out joist. Don't they have to be drilled through the joist at least 50mm from the top? Or have they changed the regs again? I am a bit out of touch with the regs with regard to house bashing these days.

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If you mean my photo neil, the cable would be existing, I dont do cables, my sparky does, and he wasnt on that job, lol

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Dont know where else the gauge may be then accylass, is usually on the fascia, or just under the front, they are put in other places occasionally, but would normally be visible from the filling loop!

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Well there is a temp thing on the lights at the top
Have just been to turn it on and it was on the 1st light that said 40 or 4.0
It goes up I presume but ya can't see them cos they aint lit up
That would be for temp of the water wouldn't it?

Fella reckoned that the guy who put the new radiator in mentioned about the pressure gauge and said it was the 3 lights that said min and max at either side:confused:
So would that mean the pressure is fine? How would ya know when to stop "filling" it?:rolleyes:

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Would have to have power on to fill it then and stop filling at the mid position light, if it is already over the minimum then yes, I would think it is fine, it will shut down if it isnt happy, lol

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Thanks Derek ya a star:D

Thanks for all your help:)

And Neil too:)