We can haz heating :)
We have functioning central heating again! Hurrah!
The F***ing Massive Wrench mentioned in an earlier post was borrowed, but A discovered he still couldn't unhook the relevant bits, despite the application of copious quantities of WD40. He figured maybe he needed a second wrench, to hold one bit still while turning the other, so a second wrench was duly borrowed...and still the bloody thing wouldn't come undone.
And then A remembered that one of his gamer acquaintances used to be a plumber, and invited him round to have a look/a fight with it. And after more WD40 and a bit of 'impact management' (which is techie-speak for hitting the non-compliant object with a hammer and then asking if it fancies some more), the pump is changed, and our diagnosis appears to have been correct, as we now have radiators which are actually hot.
So, yay!
The F***ing Massive Wrench mentioned in an earlier post was borrowed, but A discovered he still couldn't unhook the relevant bits, despite the application of copious quantities of WD40. He figured maybe he needed a second wrench, to hold one bit still while turning the other, so a second wrench was duly borrowed...and still the bloody thing wouldn't come undone.
And then A remembered that one of his gamer acquaintances used to be a plumber, and invited him round to have a look/a fight with it. And after more WD40 and a bit of 'impact management' (which is techie-speak for hitting the non-compliant object with a hammer and then asking if it fancies some more), the pump is changed, and our diagnosis appears to have been correct, as we now have radiators which are actually hot.
So, yay!