Oil heating issue

[Mark Ferguson]

Hoping somebody can help,

we we have recently moved into a new house which is oil central heating. The house has 3 floors, the top 2 having a thermostat on the wall, however the bottom floor doesn't have a thermostat. The boiler is under the stairs on the bottom floor, there are 2 options on the control panel - 1 to control heating and the other to control water.

Issue is is that whenever you turn the heating on, sometimes the radiators heat on the bottom floor, other times they don't. When they do heat they feel hotter at the top than at the bottom. It's confusing how they heat one time and then don't the next - does anybody have any idea why this would be?

Also whenever you turn the hot water option on just - the top floor radiators will heat up?

As a result of this the bottom floor is always colder than the other 2 floors and therefore we have to use an electric heater which is costing a fortune.


Any help would be appreciated?

 

[gmartine]

I don't mean to be flippant but IF your radiators are heating up intermittently and when there is a call for hot water only it's time to call out a heating engineer.

 

[lame plumber]

your system is probably full of sludge and needs flushing through and then the whole system rebalancing to get all the rads working together, re the top floor rads heating on hw, then a pipework adjustment is needed to resolve the problem

 

[plumbtech]

What boiler is it , warm flow

 

[lame plumber]

What boiler is it , warm flow

the relevance being?