Your Heating Motorised valve sounds like it is letting by and would need to be repalced, if you are on a 3* GrittishBas contract they should do this as part of the contract, but I have heard of occasions where because the boiler is old they won't touch !?
However if you repalce system with a combi these valves would be removed from the system so you need to concider this before paying to have the motorised valve repalced Broag remeha Combi Boilers are excellent
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May 2009