Dear All
New member here, coming looking for help. A few weeks ago I had work carried out by a British Gas Homecare service technician. It required a drain and refill of the system, and as he left, he advised my I would need to bleed all the radiators, at some point, given a few days, when everything had settled down. I followed this advice, but got no gurgling or spitting from any of them, and just nice clean water coming out, so I felt happy about that.
Since the work was carried out though, I have been having awful problems with overpressure. Not that my boiler tells me that easily, no light codes, as far as I can see, but it regularly fails to start, and if I catch it trying, it just clicks a few times, and then gives up. When I check the pressure gauge, which is in the loft, I see significant overpressure, such that I need to bleed around a gallon and a half of water out of the system to bring it back down again, which I do at an easy to access radiator.
Where the gauge is there is a red coloured pressure vessel, and leading to that is what I take to be a mains water feed, with two taps in a line, I assume for double security. Both of these taps are definitely in the off position, because if I turn them both on, I hear water flowing, and the gauge goes up, which is what I would normally do to top the system off, if ever it's needed, which on occasion, it has been in the past.
As it stands though, that is never going to be required again, because since the technician was here, in order to keep my hot water and heating system going, I have had to drain gallons and gallons of water out of the system, around a gallon and a half every few days.
My thought is there is another feed location, somewhere nearer the boiler, which he utilised to recharge the system, and he has left that in the on position, or partially on. Before I remove all the woodwork surrounding and covering the pipes near the boiler, is this a possibility, and should it be easy to identify. It's quite the task to get all this off, and I don't want to waste my time if there is no such alternate feed.
I'm a complete novice when it comes to boilers and heating, but I'm not helpless in terms of general mechanical ability, and DIY, so I'm hopeful that if my thoughts are correct, I will be able to spot another valve or similar, and crank it down.
If it helps the boiler is Potterton Precision, and has been operating for around 10 years, with regular service and periodic repairs from British Gas Homecare. They tell me that my system is an S plan heating system, whatever that means, again if that helps.
If you need more information, so that I can be helped, do please let me know, and I will try to find out.
I'll not go into detail as to why I can't just log a recall with Homecare, but please take my word for it, that at this moment, I cannot. If you think that's definitely what I should do, I will explain why.
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
Cheers
Sutty
New member here, coming looking for help. A few weeks ago I had work carried out by a British Gas Homecare service technician. It required a drain and refill of the system, and as he left, he advised my I would need to bleed all the radiators, at some point, given a few days, when everything had settled down. I followed this advice, but got no gurgling or spitting from any of them, and just nice clean water coming out, so I felt happy about that.
Since the work was carried out though, I have been having awful problems with overpressure. Not that my boiler tells me that easily, no light codes, as far as I can see, but it regularly fails to start, and if I catch it trying, it just clicks a few times, and then gives up. When I check the pressure gauge, which is in the loft, I see significant overpressure, such that I need to bleed around a gallon and a half of water out of the system to bring it back down again, which I do at an easy to access radiator.
Where the gauge is there is a red coloured pressure vessel, and leading to that is what I take to be a mains water feed, with two taps in a line, I assume for double security. Both of these taps are definitely in the off position, because if I turn them both on, I hear water flowing, and the gauge goes up, which is what I would normally do to top the system off, if ever it's needed, which on occasion, it has been in the past.
As it stands though, that is never going to be required again, because since the technician was here, in order to keep my hot water and heating system going, I have had to drain gallons and gallons of water out of the system, around a gallon and a half every few days.
My thought is there is another feed location, somewhere nearer the boiler, which he utilised to recharge the system, and he has left that in the on position, or partially on. Before I remove all the woodwork surrounding and covering the pipes near the boiler, is this a possibility, and should it be easy to identify. It's quite the task to get all this off, and I don't want to waste my time if there is no such alternate feed.
I'm a complete novice when it comes to boilers and heating, but I'm not helpless in terms of general mechanical ability, and DIY, so I'm hopeful that if my thoughts are correct, I will be able to spot another valve or similar, and crank it down.
If it helps the boiler is Potterton Precision, and has been operating for around 10 years, with regular service and periodic repairs from British Gas Homecare. They tell me that my system is an S plan heating system, whatever that means, again if that helps.
If you need more information, so that I can be helped, do please let me know, and I will try to find out.
I'll not go into detail as to why I can't just log a recall with Homecare, but please take my word for it, that at this moment, I cannot. If you think that's definitely what I should do, I will explain why.
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
Cheers
Sutty