Hi there
amateur here looking for help again and as always any advice is very much appreciated
We are working on a big renovation (our house and inlaws that we all chucked in for as a family) and previously had installed cast iron radiators in one half of the property. Apart from a few leeks here and there the overall process wasn't too bad/ engineer commissioned boiler fine. In this case we used fernox LSX for bushes/ stop ends.
We are now on the second half of the property/ second lot of rads and tbh its been a nightmare. This set of rads were all sandblasted and needed new bushes. On the advice of a plumber who was looking at the job we used boss white and around 14 revolutions of PTFE to seal the new bushes. Got rads in place with wall ties and engineers came to connect and commission boiler. Initially we got a number of leaks on valves themselves which were fixed however, now leaks have started on the bushes. Small steady drips but the boiler is losing pressure.
So I guess I want some advice as to recommendations for products to use/ how to. So far we're were looking at 3 possible options to fix:
(1) Fernox leak sealer that we can put through the system
(2) draining and removing all bushes to redo with PTFE and an alternative paste/sealer
(3) Bushes off again and try without PTFE/ other joint sealer?
Any help much appreciated.
*PS/technique we were advised to use/ and used for bushes was bush in left hand/ thread pointing to right and PTFE wrapped over and away. Boss white was then pasted over PTFE
amateur here looking for help again and as always any advice is very much appreciated
We are working on a big renovation (our house and inlaws that we all chucked in for as a family) and previously had installed cast iron radiators in one half of the property. Apart from a few leeks here and there the overall process wasn't too bad/ engineer commissioned boiler fine. In this case we used fernox LSX for bushes/ stop ends.
We are now on the second half of the property/ second lot of rads and tbh its been a nightmare. This set of rads were all sandblasted and needed new bushes. On the advice of a plumber who was looking at the job we used boss white and around 14 revolutions of PTFE to seal the new bushes. Got rads in place with wall ties and engineers came to connect and commission boiler. Initially we got a number of leaks on valves themselves which were fixed however, now leaks have started on the bushes
. Small steady drips but the boiler is losing pressure. So I guess I want some advice as to recommendations for products to use/ how to. So far we're were looking at 3 possible options to fix:
(1) Fernox leak sealer that we can put through the system
(2) draining and removing all bushes to redo with PTFE and an alternative paste/sealer
(3) Bushes off again and try without PTFE/ other joint sealer?
Any help much appreciated.
*PS/technique we were advised to use/ and used for bushes was bush in left hand/ thread pointing to right and PTFE wrapped over and away. Boss white was then pasted over PTFE
