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Cold Sassy Tree is a 1984 historical novel by Olive Ann Burns. Set in the US state of Georgia in the fictional town of Cold Sassy (based on the real city of Harmony Grove, now Commerce) in 1906, it follows the life of a 14-year-old boy named Will Tweedy, and explores themes such as religion, death, and social taboos. An incomplete sequel to the novel, Leaving Cold Sassy, was published in 1992 after Burns' death.

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    Installing rads for GSHP

    Hi there! Recently moved in to a new property in Sweden, previously heated with fires and electric rads. Have contracted someone to install a Ground Source Heat Pump, but will undertake the installation of rads myself. The property is around 120sqm over two floors, and I will be setting in 11...
  2. NODDYNODSVILLE

    2 Cold rads on a system with 8 hot rads

    Evening all. I have open vented C/H system with a heat only boiler and 10 rads over 3 floors. I have just replaced a rad on the middle floor. Drained system down for new gateway valve for cold feed for header tank. Refilled system no leaks, 👍, but the top top 2 rads won’t get hot. ALL rads...
  3. NODDYNODSVILLE

    Cold Rads on a system with hot rads

    Evening all. I have open vented C/H system with a heat only boiler and 10 rads over 3 floors. I have just replaced a rad on the middle floor. Drained system down for new gateway valve for cold feed for header tank. Refilled system no leaks, 👍, but the top top 2 rads won’t get hot. ALL rads...
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    Two rads do not heat

    Two radiators in extension do not get hot. Been flushed through bled etc. Rads balanced in house. They get hot when all other rads off but not roasting to the touch, the minute you turn on any other rads, they go coolish again. Could boiler not be strong enough? If so, would changing all...
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    2 Rads not heating up

    I have 2 downstairs radiators not heating up. The system was recently power flushed, the plumber highlighted a flow issue, I have removed the radiator and flushed it, after refitting still no flow until I turned off all other radiators in the house then they both warmed up great I thought. As...
  6. Rogerf

    Hot rads upstairs cold down

    Customer has an ideal logic 35 with heating working upstairs and no heating downstairs, have tried shutting all rads upstairs but rads downstairs still cold, I did find some stuck trvs but still no difference once released, I’m thinking system is sludges up. any other opinions
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    Which towel rads don't leak when run off softened hw circuit?

    Hi, hope someone can help me find a solution to this problem please. I have 3 wet, stainless steel, ladder towel rads fed from pressurised ch/hw system including ufh throughout(no other rads). House was built 2 years ago. We had a tablet salt water softener fitted 3 months after moving in...
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    Finding quality TRVs for Cast Iron Rads

    Have 16 cast iron rads in an old cottage and have been suffering for several years with brass TRVs I bought from a period house store. They look great but have been totally unreliable and around 6-8 have either failed or leaked or both. I'm looking for something to replace them that matches the...
  9. MaksimsK

    Rads need constant bleeding

    Hi. After the boiler swap in mid december (Ideal logic Max combi c30), we started having this problem with rads. Usual symptoms: colder top rad, I can hear water flowing in pipes and rads. Usually need bleeding every 1-2 weeks since then. Pressure was on same level even after bleeding, but not...
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    Rads downstairs not working

    Heating was working well apart from the furthest two rads which needed bleeding. Once I bled them no heating anywhere. I turned off all the rads and then turned them on again gradually, now the rads upstairs are on but none downstairs. We had a new Boiler 2 years ago which is working fine, I...
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    Hot water but cold rads

    I have a Worcester Greenstar Ri Woke up this morning with plenty of hot water but a cold house. All the rads were luke warm. From searching online I tried switching the 3 port valve to manual. This seemed to result in the boiler heating and the rads became warm, however this only lasted for...
  12. swebb99uk

    Opening upstairs rad reduces noise in downstairs rads !

    Hi, a bit of advice required. I've been getting a lot of fast water flowing sounds from three radiators downstairs but not all and upstairs they are quiet, well most of the time. I've bled the system 3 times and also played around with the locks and balancing the system. I can make small...
  13. gingalig

    Ufh, with microbore rads

    Apologies if its already been covered. I've been asked to quote on a heat only with a solar compatible unvented, the existing system is 10mm microbore gravity fed to rads. I'm confident of the conversion and have my gas safe and G3, I've also been been asked to provide an outlet for, and install...
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    2 rads. Of 10mm drops

    I have a friend who wants a radiator adding to his system in the garage. His proposing teeing off the 10mm pipe drops to the rad. Behind the garage wall in the kitchen. How big will this be heat wise? It's a new build so all piped from a central manifold in 10mm and can't really get to it to...
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    Noisy rads, clicking - not ticking - (bubbles ?) intermittent

    Background 10 year old system. Has been kept scrupulously clean. Kept very up to date with inhibitor (higher than normal concentration). Several rads have been removed, flushed and then additional inhibitor added to keep concentration high. Aladdin Self-bleed vents fitted upstairs and down (5...
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    Rads going cold after about a week of being hot

    I guess this is going to be an airlock problem but I have tried to deal with it and I am getting nowhere. I have two rads at the end of the heating run and they get cold when others around the house are hot. Even though we live in a bungalow we do have a loft conversion with two rads upstairs...
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    Glow worm not heating rads

    Hi chaps, hope you can help I have a Glow worm Ultracom 38cxi, HW is fine but CH is not working I turned it on last week and all went well but I struggled to turn it off so I just shut down everything, it appeared to be back to normal, all lights on, all controls OK, water heats ok, today I...
  18. R

    Problems with 2 x new rads not heating up.

    First off I am sparky so go gentle ;-), I have been involved with a garage conversion with a builder friend and we have added two small rads to the existing system in a garage sized room with a small wc. I have sought the assistance of a plumber friend who is coming to look on Tuesday but in...
  19. E

    plumber needed to install rads

    I'm working in hunstanton , Norfolk on the 18 & 19th & 20th sept looking for local plumber to help install 11 rads for one too two days . PM for more details
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    Rads work after Sentinel X400 but gunk still in pipes - clean again?

    Morning all, I've recently cleaned my F&E, microbore central heating system using Sentinel X400 and this led to the cold rads heating up again, so a success in that respect*. Now, after a week of the X400 circulating, today I cleaned the F&E tank again (much cleaner water), drained down the...
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