From reading your forum I think I need to flush my radiators and put somekind of chemical into my system?
Here's my situation...
We're getting hardly any heat out of our radiators at the moment.
We moved into the house in April (it's been seriously neglected) and I've only recently turned my attention to the heating system.
I noticed a few weeks ago that only a couple of the radiators got warm. So I did a bit of research and decided I needed to bleed and balance the rads.
I opened all the valves on all the rads which resulted in all the upstairs ones getting incredibly hot and all the downstairs ones staying ice cold. Which isn't suprising is it?
So I then closed all the upstairs rads completely off. This resulted in one downstairs rad getting reasonably hot and the rest just luke-warm.
Then I closed all of the valves and went round one radiator at a time opening the valve and letting them get piping hot. So I know all of the radiators are capable of getting hot.
What I've ended up with is all the upstairs valves hardly on (less than 1/8 turn open) and all the downstairs fully open. I've turned the pump up from 3 to 4 and I'm left with all the radiators getting to a similar temperature (barely warm at all).
It says Baxi Bermuda C2 on the gas fire and the boiler's in the chimney behind it. It's a very old system but British Gas said the previous owners had it serviced yearly.
The radiators downstairs look really old and the radiators upstairs say "Plumb Centre" on them and look reasonably new.
Thanks Guys,
Dave
Here's my situation...
We're getting hardly any heat out of our radiators at the moment.
We moved into the house in April (it's been seriously neglected) and I've only recently turned my attention to the heating system.
I noticed a few weeks ago that only a couple of the radiators got warm. So I did a bit of research and decided I needed to bleed and balance the rads.
I opened all the valves on all the rads which resulted in all the upstairs ones getting incredibly hot and all the downstairs ones staying ice cold. Which isn't suprising is it?
So I then closed all the upstairs rads completely off. This resulted in one downstairs rad getting reasonably hot and the rest just luke-warm.
Then I closed all of the valves and went round one radiator at a time opening the valve and letting them get piping hot. So I know all of the radiators are capable of getting hot.
What I've ended up with is all the upstairs valves hardly on (less than 1/8 turn open) and all the downstairs fully open. I've turned the pump up from 3 to 4 and I'm left with all the radiators getting to a similar temperature (barely warm at all).
It says Baxi Bermuda C2 on the gas fire and the boiler's in the chimney behind it. It's a very old system but British Gas said the previous owners had it serviced yearly.
The radiators downstairs look really old and the radiators upstairs say "Plumb Centre" on them and look reasonably new.
Thanks Guys,
Dave