We recently moved to a rented property. Last Spring it was converted from oil to gas central heating. The property is a 1960'S chalet bungalow. The current boiler is made by Ideal and was new last Spring.
The heating works and heats the house very well, but the noise is unbearable. The bedroom I am currently sitting in has a radiator that has the sound of rushing water that is so noisy it sounds like it's about to explode. It fluctuates too. This loud noise it replicated in other rads around the house but the bedroom is particularly bad.
The landlords plumbers have been out 5 times to sort it. All the end up doing is turning the lockshield down on the rad so low that it bearly heats up even though the TRV is on 6. The only way to get heat in the rad is to open the lockshield and if it's not fully open its doesn't get very warm.
The plumbers have:
Bled the system several times.
Flushed and put a treatment through the system.
Changed a rad in another room which was not heating up properly and was making a terrible noise. The new rad is still very noisy.
Turned down the pump on the boiler.
Shut off the lockshield on the most offending radiator.
Flushed the offending rad which had some very light yellow water and black fine dust stuff when the plumber took the water out but crystal clear water when flushed with a hose.
The last plumber here said he feels it's possibly a fault with the boiler and as radiators start reaching their set heat and switching off, the boiler is not reducing the flow of water. But if this were the case would it at some point be silent? It isnt. It is a truly loud gushing sound. Pipes have also started knocking and we sometimes get whistling too.
The managing agent says speak to the plumber, but they are now beginning to ignore us, promising to ring back and never do.
They just seem to be putting a plaster on something without actually finding the cause.
I know it's a long shot but would anyone have any idea what could be the cause of this? Whilst we currently have heat, this seems like it could pack up at any time. This sort of noise cannot be right.
The heating works and heats the house very well, but the noise is unbearable. The bedroom I am currently sitting in has a radiator that has the sound of rushing water that is so noisy it sounds like it's about to explode. It fluctuates too. This loud noise it replicated in other rads around the house but the bedroom is particularly bad.
The landlords plumbers have been out 5 times to sort it. All the end up doing is turning the lockshield down on the rad so low that it bearly heats up even though the TRV is on 6. The only way to get heat in the rad is to open the lockshield and if it's not fully open its doesn't get very warm.
The plumbers have:
Bled the system several times.
Flushed and put a treatment through the system.
Changed a rad in another room which was not heating up properly and was making a terrible noise. The new rad is still very noisy.
Turned down the pump on the boiler.
Shut off the lockshield on the most offending radiator.
Flushed the offending rad which had some very light yellow water and black fine dust stuff when the plumber took the water out but crystal clear water when flushed with a hose.
The last plumber here said he feels it's possibly a fault with the boiler and as radiators start reaching their set heat and switching off, the boiler is not reducing the flow of water. But if this were the case would it at some point be silent? It isnt. It is a truly loud gushing sound. Pipes have also started knocking and we sometimes get whistling too.
The managing agent says speak to the plumber, but they are now beginning to ignore us, promising to ring back and never do.
They just seem to be putting a plaster on something without actually finding the cause.
I know it's a long shot but would anyone have any idea what could be the cause of this? Whilst we currently have heat, this seems like it could pack up at any time. This sort of noise cannot be right.
