I am way, way too embarrassed to tell the class how badly they ripped me off replacing a radiator.
The fucking cunts.

I thought 'I won't get a local chap as you probably get knocked every time, so I will try a bigger firm to be sure that a genuine price structure is adhered to'. What a price structure it was, un-fucking-believable.

PS no, I didn't but could not be less surprised. Fucking highwaymen.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:09, 1 reply, 13 years ago)

couldn't you just replace a radiator yourself?
are you some sort of womangay?
(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:13, Reply)

Not everyone's a manly man like what we are, Q

( Kroney, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:16, Reply)

but changing a radiator's a piece of piss
turn off tap, drain radiator, unscrew, attach new radiator, turn on tap

no?
(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:18, Reply)

You'd have to drain the whole system, rather than just the rad
but essentially, yeah. Changing filters on a car or replacing a computer hard drive is piss-easy, but people don't want to do that either.
( Kroney, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:20, Reply)

Not if you turn off the taps at either end you don't.

(Bazongaloid, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:31, Reply)

Kroney's part right, some systems don't have taps on the radiators

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:32, Reply)

Mine didn't.
But then, it was thirty years old.
( Kroney, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:33, Reply)

You know the things that let you turn the heat up and down on your radiator?
Them things are taps and can be used to isolate the radiator. If you don't have them then you have a fucking pikey heating system.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:34, Reply)

not all radiators have those
one in my hall doesn't for instance

all the others do, and i have a very modern system
(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:36, Reply)

Or a centralised thermostat.
They're not taps, they're thermostats.
( Kroney, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:37, Reply)

You have to have them to balance the radiator
otherwise all the hot water goes to the first radiator and it's red hot, and the others in your house are stone cold.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:39, Reply)

I haven't taken apart the central heating in my flat
but I can categorically say that I have one boiler, three rads on a linear circuit, a centrally controlled thermostat in the sitting room and not a blessed thing on any of the radiators save the drainage valve on the one by the front door.
( Kroney, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:40, Reply)

Also, to the best of my knowledge
the water isn't static, it gets pumped around the system so while the rads at the end of the system may be cold until the water gets to it, it shouldn't be forever unless you've got a blockage.
( Kroney, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:44, Reply)

You clearly don't understand how heating systems work
www.telegraph.co.uk/property/propertyadvice/jeffhowell/8278429/Home-improvements-What-is-radiator-balancing.html
(Bazongaloid, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:46, Reply)

Ah, I know what you mean now.

( Kroney, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:49, Reply)

Oh man, I'm totally racking up the points here.

(Bazongaloid, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:51, Reply)

I must admit, whilst it's actually a breach of my /OT contract to agree with Al
I've never come across a system that didn't have taps of some kind at either end.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:38, Reply)

I'l give us a half a point each then.

(Bazongaloid, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:39, Reply)

I guarantee you I would cause a flood or worse if I tried.
I'm absolutely shit at that sort of thing. My father taught me nothing as we had maintenance men from the College who'd do everything. Our hall ceiling was really fucking high, and these chaps would even come round to change the lightbulbs.

My brother can do all that shit because he spent 10 years as a squatter but not me, I am hopeless.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:21, Reply)

it's worth giving it a shot though, save yourself hundreds
and what with the internet these days it's easy to look up how to do things
(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:22, Reply)

Nowadays I've little choice but to do as you say.
I need to make a will.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:23, Reply)

I beqeath the sum of FUCK ALL and some obscure vinyl to Boyce Jr

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:26, Reply)

+ debts, Sporto, lots of lovely debts.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:27, Reply)

I'm not sure you can give them away like that
Just saying like
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:28, Reply)

certain debts can be claimed by the creditor to the deceased's nearest and dearest

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:30, Reply)

is there a flip side of that shitty heir hunters show,
where some office full of sadistic cunts trawl he country to heap debt upon the recently bereaved?
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:38, Reply)

no, because those sadistic cunts are bankeers
who we all know are above the law
(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:39, Reply)

You forgot the bit where you find the threads have been metricated.
Or that the new radiator is 1mm shorter than before.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:22, Reply)

Or that a jet of scalding water is spraying into the air because the radiator has split
and the bit where you try to turn it off has so many layers of fucking paint on it from imbecilic previous tenants that it doesn't work etc etc.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:26, Reply)

sound like you need a new radiator

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:27, Reply)

+ fitted by a proper plumber.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:30, Reply)

or just someone with a little common sense

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:30, Reply)

I replaced a ball valve on Saturday,
I took the old one to B & Q to make sure it was the same size and the threads were OK. I have common sense.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:33, Reply)

that's what i always do
i'm no genius, but i'll be damned if i'm gonna pay a REAL man to come in and do it for me
(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:34, Reply)

You are a real man Q.
Where do these self doubts come from?
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:36, Reply)

i saw a photo of myself :(

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:39, Reply)

If it's the one I've seen, I think you have a point.
No offence, like.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:45, Reply)

i just did a google image search for quentin oftiweak
and got this
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:53, Reply)

I see. How odd.
There is *another* pic.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:57, Reply)

sounds mysterious,

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Tue 24 Jul 2012, 11:06, Reply)

the guy on the left is my brother
true story*

*may not be 100% true
(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 11:15, Reply)

You turn off the cock at the water tank
and then open the drainage valve to drain the rad system.
( Kroney, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:28, Reply)

and obviously don't do it when it's hot

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:29, Reply)

No, that would be stupid.
and put a hose over the drainage valve and run that out of the front door. Don't do what a friend of mine did and assume the washing up bowl would be enough as "it was only the one radiator :("
( Kroney, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:32, Reply)

to be fair superfly is part right
many radiators these days have taps so you can cut off supply to them
(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:33, Reply)

If you don't have flow restricitve valves at either end of your radiator
then it's been put in completely wrong.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:40, Reply)

there is something there, not sure what, could be taps, look like plastic stoppers
but all the other radiators are adjustable except that one

i'll shut up now as i don't know what i'm talking about

also, fuck you, just cos
(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:42, Reply)