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alexandra

Hello all, I am new here, but hopefully some nice plumbing gent will lend his brain for me :D... as I am desperate yet again (after having spent £100's this month with a plumber!).
According to my user's manual, there is insufficient water circulation, and this is true as the pressure gauge is reading only .4, and books says should be about 1.00, so any way it doesn't work. But book very vaguely says to refill the system by opening the valve under the boiler.
That's all it says! No diagram, nothing :confused: .

Anyway, enclosed are three pics, one showing underneath inside of it, the only area of pipework, and infront. I haven't the foggiest idea which valve(s) to turn, as I originally come from a part of the world where we don't use boilers! :eek:
Any help would be greatly appreciated! As I am freezing to death and my lovely landlord doesn't get back to me about having someone fix it (even though he gets paid £1K a month in rent)

Thank You
Alexandra
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If you look underneath the boiler there is usually a filling loop. It looks like a metal braided hose with a small plastic lever, if you mover the lever this will allow for the central heating system to fill up. Do this to 1.5 bar then close off the lever.

Then go to all the rads and bleed until water shows, you may have to do this a couple of times until the air has been bled out of the rads. Before you do this though has the system been running and you have then noticed the pressure has dropped down? If so call the landlord as you may have a leak within the system. Let us know how you get on.
 
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thank you very much all :) - it has now been sorted! by turning both those little grey valves together, did the trick! water pressure was just almost nil all of the sudden, thus why i was so strange. i was worried i may turn the wrong valve when I was having a fiddle, so glad you rescued me! thanks again. now am off to have a shower :D
 
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I know it generally ignored but the filling loop is meant to be detached from the water supply for the regs, So if this is the case on this boiler its built in then and cant be detached from supply wierd.
 
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Winston said:
I know it generally ignored but the filling loop is meant to be detached from the water supply for the regs, So if this is the case on this boiler its built in then and cant be detached from supply wierd.
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I've only done some filling from the boiler before and my dad's got a Vaillant combi with built in filling loop.I noticed on the Worcester models they have this plastic key with (2) O rings that bridges the gap between cold inlet and heating circuit.
 
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Winston said:
I know it generally ignored but the filling loop is meant to be detached from the water supply for the regs, So if this is the case on this boiler its built in then and cant be detached from supply wierd.
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your probaly supposed to undo the nut one end
its a stupid water bylaw thats never enforced and as with any uneforcable law should be dropped
 
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