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"So ingenious": Netz celebrates a simple trick to vent heaters

2023-02-14T13:34:54.928Z


What to do if the water just gushes out when you bleed the heating? A TikToker knows how to help herself with a simple and ingenious trick.


What to do if the water just gushes out when you bleed the heating?

A TikToker knows how to help herself with a simple and ingenious trick.

If the heating doesn't get really warm again in winter or it gurgles noticeably, there is often too much air in the radiator.

In order to get the heating going again properly, the radiator must be bled.

Here, however, the right preparation counts - otherwise the procedure can quickly end in a flood.

Bleed the heater - TikTokerin catches leaking water with an ingenious trick

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Heaters can be vented with a special key.

A lot of water can flow out.

© Stefan Kiefer/Imago

If you let air out of the radiator, either with a suitable wrench or a screwdriver, water can escape from the radiator.

And often not too tight.

A resourceful TikToker knows how to get by with a simple yet ingenious trick: a prepared plastic bottle.

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To avoid spilling the hot water on the floor, the savvy user @sand9501 simply pokes two holes in an upside down plastic bottle, sticks her screwdriver through it, and then places the bottle on the radiator valve so they open it with the tool can.

Shortly thereafter, water flows directly into the bottle - and voilà: Nothing spills and the floor stays dry.

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Comments on TikTok

The video spread like wildfire on TikTok: after just four days, it had collected more than 150,000 likes and been shared more than 29,000 times

(as of February 14, 2023)

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The users celebrate her for this simple life hack, which seems to solve a problem plagued by many heating system owners: "So simple.. so ingenious," says one user, while another reveals with a laugh: "The video comes many desperate attempts too late." .

  • 😳 sometimes I'm just speechless.. so simple.. so awesome

  • The video comes many desperate attempts too late 😂😂😂

  • You should actually let the air out until the water comes and not let the water out😅

  • I just always hold a cup under it... I don't need such a construct for that 😅

  • hey, that's too expensive 25 cent deposit

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Others, however, consider the trick to be quite superfluous.

After all, a simple cup or glass is enough to catch the water when you vent the heater.

That's true, of course - but it rarely works as spill-free as with the bottle trick.

Did you know?

If you bleed your heating regularly, you save on heating costs at the same time.

In order to save money, it also helps to avoid common heating mistakes.

List of rubrics: © Stefan Kiefer/Imago

Source: merkur

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