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Yesterday I couldn't find the pump not didn't have one! I didn't say if there was a diverter valve as I have no idea what one is. I wasn't getting stroppy but I felt as though you were being incredibly patronising telling me to get to know the system. You also insinuated that I hadn't...

I searched the forum and didn't find anything that I didn't try before I posted. I'm also trying to find out how the system works but as a novice with very little time on her hands it does help if I can get advice from other people, hence posting here. If it's beneath you to offer help then...

OK have taken panel off the wall to have better access to the pump. It has a switch on the one side with 3 positions 1,2 and 3. It is at 2 at the moment. It has not been changed since we moved in, when the heating was working.

Have found pump underneath airing cupboard and it is vibrating like it is working. Can't see it very well to do any more. How would I unstick a valve or bleed the pump?

Cheers for the suggestions. Looks like I'm gonna have to do a hunt for this damned pump which must be hiden somewhere and see if that helps.

Oh and all rads have been bled.

Turning the lock valves anti-clockwise they go so far and then stop, no water comes out. If I turn them clockwise then they leak water. The totally cold rad downstairs with the cold pipe to it can hardly be turned before it leaks. We have turned the valves a bit and some of the rads are now...

Forgot to say I moved into the house in Jan and used the rads with no trouble until April and they have been off from then until this weekend. In the meantime I have had a gas fire removed and a gas hob replaced, not sure if this will make a diff.

I have a CH system with hot water tank upstairs and a Potterton boiler in the kitchen. I have to turn 3 valves in the upstairs to turn rads on. One rad downstairs is hot another is cold with pipe going in cold also. Upstairs I have 2 rads a bit warm with hot pipes to them. Every now and then...