I bled a radiator last week and the bit that unscrews slightly sheared off and started a slow dripping leak from the rad. I've isolated the rad but it's now unusable until I've got a replacement part.
We're covered by E-on central heating cover who I rang last Saturday and the soonest they can come out is Thursday (time wasters) I know it's then going to take them weeks of messing about trying to order it, so I'm trying to get it myself as it would be cheap and easy to fit anyway.
Right, getting a replacement part (a radiator bleed valve) is proving to be the ultimate unforeseen challenge. Yesterday, in my lunch break I went to...
Buildbase> B&Q> BSS> Plumbcenter> & Graham's and unbelievably not one of them has the part.
It's quite hard to describe the part but I think the rad is by Centerrad and it was fitted about 5 years ago. It's a traditional single rounded top style and the bleed valve is on the right hand side, sort of offset at angle (looking down on it). The full part (a sort of bolt that unscrews) is about 10mm long and is threaded and about 6mm wide. There's then a screw inside it which bleeds the rad - which is the bit that's broken.
Does anyone have any ideas of some sort of radiator valve specialist as at the moment i'm starting to think that I might end up having to get a new radiator to replace one that's relatively new???
Cheers.