Hi everyone,
My customer has an unvented cylinder, with two two-port valves.
At night, she's noticed her bedroom rad (the rad nearest the cylinder) stays on when heating is turned off. The hot water in the cylinder is the correct temperature (i.e., not overheating, so cylinder stat and two-port valve must be OK). Central heating is otherwise OK - all rads get hot.
I'm puzzling over it.
If when the hot water was being heated, the central heating 2-port valve was letting by, surely the pump would distribute the heat to all the rads, not just one or two. So I'm not sure it's the hw valve at fault.
The only reason I can think of is that the boiler is producing too much heat - maybe it isn't turning off properly when both hw and ch demand are off? And the excess heat is going up the return pipe to the rad?
Any ideas anyone?
Jennie.
My customer has an unvented cylinder, with two two-port valves.
At night, she's noticed her bedroom rad (the rad nearest the cylinder) stays on when heating is turned off. The hot water in the cylinder is the correct temperature (i.e., not overheating, so cylinder stat and two-port valve must be OK). Central heating is otherwise OK - all rads get hot.
I'm puzzling over it.
If when the hot water was being heated, the central heating 2-port valve was letting by, surely the pump would distribute the heat to all the rads, not just one or two. So I'm not sure it's the hw valve at fault.
The only reason I can think of is that the boiler is producing too much heat - maybe it isn't turning off properly when both hw and ch demand are off? And the excess heat is going up the return pipe to the rad?
Any ideas anyone?
Jennie.