Hi All,
I read the faq about balancing radiators and want to pose a question.
The boiler circulates water to all the radiators and because of the different lengths of pipe work and organisation of radiators some get more than their fair share of hot water. Leaving some luke warm or cold.
So the name of the game is to give the radiators just enough hot water to heat up, and no to much as this wont leave enough hot water for the others.
So if you were to close all the LS on the radiators. Then open the one that heats up the first, just enough so it heats ups, then move around to the second and open the LS until that one heats up..
You continue the process until you completed all the radiators.
Hopefully if there is a bit of spare capacity in pressure, and the pressure hasnt dropped so low that water doesnt circulate through the radiator you first balanced, all the rads should be hot/ balanced.
This wouldnt require you to measure temperature on the flow or return and all you would need to do is listen for the flow of water through the radiator.
I suspect their might be problems in this approach, you might limit the circulation around your heating with all the LS turned as low as possible, and put to much strain on the pump.
Anyway the reason i suggest this is because i got a thermometer to balance my system as suggested in the faq, it was crap and couldnt measure anything quickly or reliably, so had a go just by feel.. and then came to the strategy described above. All seems to be working ok at the moment, and i am interested in your thoughts.
bw
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I read the faq about balancing radiators and want to pose a question.
The boiler circulates water to all the radiators and because of the different lengths of pipe work and organisation of radiators some get more than their fair share of hot water. Leaving some luke warm or cold.
So the name of the game is to give the radiators just enough hot water to heat up, and no to much as this wont leave enough hot water for the others.
So if you were to close all the LS on the radiators. Then open the one that heats up the first, just enough so it heats ups, then move around to the second and open the LS until that one heats up..
You continue the process until you completed all the radiators.
Hopefully if there is a bit of spare capacity in pressure, and the pressure hasnt dropped so low that water doesnt circulate through the radiator you first balanced, all the rads should be hot/ balanced.
This wouldnt require you to measure temperature on the flow or return and all you would need to do is listen for the flow of water through the radiator.
I suspect their might be problems in this approach, you might limit the circulation around your heating with all the LS turned as low as possible, and put to much strain on the pump.
Anyway the reason i suggest this is because i got a thermometer to balance my system as suggested in the faq, it was crap and couldnt measure anything quickly or reliably, so had a go just by feel.. and then came to the strategy described above. All seems to be working ok at the moment, and i am interested in your thoughts.
bw
A