My house is 15 years old and has the orginal central heating system (boiler, cylinder, radiators), which seems to work fine.
The living room radiator (unlike the others) is a double thickness one and does not have a valve for turning it up and down, but does look like it should have one from the pipework. It doesn't get as hot as the others, so I would like to have go at turning it up with some pliers.
However, I'm not certain it should have have a control valve as I seem to remeber my mum's living room radiator deliberately not having one of these (poss something to do with water pressure????).
I don't want to break my heating - should I have a go at turning the radiator up with pliers, or do we think it possibly shouldn't have a valve anyway??
Also, would replacing it be as simple as plonking on a new control knob
Thank you very much in advance.
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Is my radiator valve missing or is there not supposed to be one?
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PaperFlowers · 18/01/2013 14:43
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