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Hello. I am sorry to open this with an admission: I made a dumb mistake and am seeking any help possible, thanks in advance ---
The pressure dropped on my boiler, so I opened the usual valve and let it climb up to 1.5 bars. I've not been in this house long, so the boiler is new to me. I closed the valve... or so I thought. I came back later to find an error, and the pressure over 3 bars and climbing. Water was dripping from the boiler pipes in more than one place.
Mildly panicked, I switched off the heating then went around the house and opened the bleed valves on all the radiators. Water came out of one of them, but not the rest. I left the valves open and watched the pressure meter drop over several hours down to 2, and no lower. I closed all the valves, and turned the heating back on. The boiler powers up, and the pressures sits between 2-2.5, but... the radiators do not get hot.
If I bleed the radiators now while the heating is off, nothing happens. No air, no water, no change.
However, if I open a valve while the heating is on, plenty of air comes out, and the radiator will get hot. I've read this is a bad idea, but it seems to be the only way to get hot water into the radiator at all. However, it will not last after I close the bleed valve up again.
If I just turn the heating on and wait several hours, after a time, it seems the boiler will give an error, F37 - which apparently means low pressure (Ferroli boiler) despite still hovering around the 2 bar mark.
Is there a way I can try to reset things again? Any advice would be appreciated. We've just moved house and are hitting a huge number of unexpected costs already, I would really like to avoid professional repairs/new boiler if I can.
The pressure dropped on my boiler, so I opened the usual valve and let it climb up to 1.5 bars. I've not been in this house long, so the boiler is new to me. I closed the valve... or so I thought. I came back later to find an error, and the pressure over 3 bars and climbing. Water was dripping from the boiler pipes in more than one place.
Mildly panicked, I switched off the heating then went around the house and opened the bleed valves on all the radiators. Water came out of one of them, but not the rest. I left the valves open and watched the pressure meter drop over several hours down to 2, and no lower. I closed all the valves, and turned the heating back on. The boiler powers up, and the pressures sits between 2-2.5, but... the radiators do not get hot.
If I bleed the radiators now while the heating is off, nothing happens. No air, no water, no change.
However, if I open a valve while the heating is on, plenty of air comes out, and the radiator will get hot. I've read this is a bad idea, but it seems to be the only way to get hot water into the radiator at all. However, it will not last after I close the bleed valve up again.
If I just turn the heating on and wait several hours, after a time, it seems the boiler will give an error, F37 - which apparently means low pressure (Ferroli boiler) despite still hovering around the 2 bar mark.
Is there a way I can try to reset things again? Any advice would be appreciated. We've just moved house and are hitting a huge number of unexpected costs already, I would really like to avoid professional repairs/new boiler if I can.
