One of the radiators in my house has not worked for a long while. With the summer on its way out and winter approaching i thought i would have a go at fixing it.
The central heating is all newly fitted (3 years old) with a worcester combi boiler. I find one of the inlet pipes is hot and other cold with the radiator only becoming luke warm at the top.
I removed the radiator and flushed it out with a hosepipe, it was clean and there was no masses of sludge. With the radiator of i opened both valves and water seemed to be coming out at a good pressure from both sides.
Reapplied the radiator problem persists. I then read on the forum about balancing the radiators. I turned all other rads off and left the faulty rad valves open after 20 minutes the rad was 90% hot (cooler at the bottom) and the once cold inlet pipe was now hot but not as hot as the other side.
Although the problem is 90% better the bottom of the radiator still is not as hot as the top and i feel when i open the valves for the other rads the problem will reoccur.
Any ideas what this could be are the valves faulty? is there an air lock in the system? should i change the rad?
Many thanks sorry for the long post
The central heating is all newly fitted (3 years old) with a worcester combi boiler. I find one of the inlet pipes is hot and other cold with the radiator only becoming luke warm at the top.
I removed the radiator and flushed it out with a hosepipe, it was clean and there was no masses of sludge. With the radiator of i opened both valves and water seemed to be coming out at a good pressure from both sides.
Reapplied the radiator problem persists. I then read on the forum about balancing the radiators. I turned all other rads off and left the faulty rad valves open after 20 minutes the rad was 90% hot (cooler at the bottom) and the once cold inlet pipe was now hot but not as hot as the other side.
Although the problem is 90% better the bottom of the radiator still is not as hot as the top and i feel when i open the valves for the other rads the problem will reoccur.
Any ideas what this could be are the valves faulty? is there an air lock in the system? should i change the rad?
Many thanks sorry for the long post