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@agentgeorge it has got 2, the other bleed screw is the other end.
@agentgeorge this is a pic of the bleed valve that’s snapped. It should have a square bleed pin in the centre of that sort of nut insert.
@agentgeorge this is on a 30 year old rad at a guess. They’re like an odd little insert that is about 10-15mm in size with the bleed screw in the cent...
If the Vaillant is a 7kw unit I’d avoid. Quiet outside noisy inside when it’s going full on. They have a problem with compressor vibration being trans...
They’ve had to cancel the radiator balancing at the last minute for similar problems as they’ve used before, sickness or vehicle problems, bit of a ha...
@jamespa hopefully after the rad balancing it will perform better, as I think at the moment the water is short circuiting back to the hp through the f...
@jamespa I contacted the installer and asked them to balance the rads. They’ve replied, surprisingly, and will be over this Friday. I assume they are ...
@toodles nope my installer only capped the flow return and dhw pipe work. had to get my plumber to remove the boiler, hw tank, loft tank, tidy pipe wo...
@jamespa going to bin this and see if i can get it working on a pi3. dont want to spend open energy monitor levels of money but i need to see what t...
@jamespa ive had a look at the firmware card in the add cards section and those entries are listed under attributes along with what looks like everyth...
@jamespa yes ive got all those on my dashboard already. its the current power one i cant find. if i go into developer tools and states then scroll d...
this is what ive got on the arotherm.
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