Help please with radiator bleeding

[hardheadedwoman]

Hi

I need to bleed a radiator but the one I have is different to others I’ve had in the last.

Is this the valve and do I need a particular radiator key? I don’t have a key that fits but could go and buy one if I know what I’m asking for.

Any help gratefully received!

Will the key not fit on the opposite side of the radiator? Mine have that part on one side and radiator key part on the other.

Yes that's te valve. A radiator key works best but you can use a screwdriver in the little cut out in the middle

Oh I need to do this today!

First time ever!

What do you do? How long do you twist it for?

Thank you I’m going to try with the screwdriver

This is a good guide. Anyone remember Craig from Big Brother?

Ha I do remember him!!
Annoyingly none of my screwdrivers are quite right so off to the diy shop

He’s on a shopping channel flogging a paint sprayer.

Yep a small screwdriver works fine.
Turn it about a quart turn ( anticlockwise ) while the heating is on.
You can hear the air hissing out then you will get a spurt of water, tighten it back up.
It's a good idea to do all of your radiators at the same time to make sure there's no air locks in in any of them.

We do it with the heating on I presume? Craig doesn't say but he's feeling for the warm water rising.