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  1. B

    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...
  2. P

    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...
  3. 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...
  4. 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...
  5. J

    Ballpark charge for power flushing 10 rads, system boiler OV

    Hi all, Would someone give me an idea of what you'd charge to power flush a 10 rad system (I'll hire machine from BSS). 15mm pipework (NOT 8 or 10) Glow-worm Flexicom 24hx boiler Open vent. Cheers Jim
  6. M

    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...
  7. C

    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...
  8. D

    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...
  9. R

    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...
  10. 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...
  11. 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
  12. C

    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...
  13. J

    Rads get warm when hot water is on, SYSTEM BOILER AND MOT VALVES ARE WORKING CORRECTLY

    After some ideas, I've got a house which is installed with a system boiler, when the hot water is turned on using the programmer the radiators also get warm, checking the pipework underneath the boiler, both the how water flow and central heating return are red hot! Any ideas how to rectify...
    • JC03
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    • boiler hot water rads system valves water
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Boilers
  14. R

    New rads not heating- Boiler pump position?

    Hi I've just had a bit of work done in the house where we knocked down the wall between the kitchen and dining room. This wall had radiators either side. Two new radiators have been installed in the new open plan area. When the plumber came to fit the rads and balance the system he was unable to...
    • Richiejol
    • Thread
    • boiler heating pump rads
    • Replies: 17
    • Forum: Boilers
  15. S

    Drop fed rads - draining from rad tail.

    Im planning to drain down my CH system to do some work on it and also replace a couple of rads. All of the downstairs rads are on individual drop feeds with most of the pipe work on 10mm microbore ( a few have had 15mm adapters and 15mm pipe added) There are no drain cocks on any of the rads...
  16. Bettyboo

    Cleaning rads without power flushing

    Evening all My rads are quite old (30 yearsish) they are the standard single panel rads. The ones downstairs have large cold patches at the bottom when the heating is on. I want to keep them as I do not want anything deeper to block vital space and because I do not want to change the pipe...
  17. J

    Draining prob G/F Rads

    Hi, everyone newbie here, Trying to Drain system (open vent) to clean header tank, don't know which rad to use as all downstairs rads have drain cocks. manage to drain all top rads but apart from rad used to drain system all other downstairs rads still full!. All trv's and lockshields open and...
  18. S

    Cleaning 100 year old cast iron rads.

    Morning people, I’m in the middle of a listed building refurb. The customer is having overlay ufh throughout and using the original cast iron rads as the supplementary heat. I’m removing the top and bottom entry bushes to have them at the bottom, there’s lots of dried magnetite coming out. I’m...
  19. R

    Rushing water sound in rads

    Everytime heating kicks on the radiators make a rushing water sound iv bled all rads no air just water comes out also had heatcare engineer in to take a look and says nothing they can do surely this can be solved
  20. P

    High gas bill - Vaillant 637 - UFH and Alu Rads - Help

    Hi, Following a full refurbishment of an house and a new build rear extension we had a brand new heating system installed. Give you an idea of what it is: Vaillant 637 system boiler 300l Water tank Wet UFH (floor area 15x4m) in new rear extension (family area, kitchen and dining) - used all...
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