Hi,
Bare with me as this is a long story.
In January, house had hot water, no central heating...all radiators were cold.
Everything seemed to be working..had pilot light, pump was doing what it should...just cold radiators...reading your suggestions, I thought there was sludge in the system.
So I went out and bought sludge remover and put this in the header tank. I waited about 1 hour but still no heat.
A friend suggested we try (You'll know what I mean)moving the switch on the wee silver box to "manual" and it worked for a short period of time, as although we still had hot water and heat upstairs, the 2 radiators downstairs were stone cold. Heat would only come through intermittently.
After a few weeks, I again thought maybe all the sludge has sunk to the bottom end of the system...so I drained the whole system..not once or twice, but about 5 times now, And the problem is still the same, hot upstairs, cold downstairs. I have even tried turning the pump up to the 3rd mark to see if the extra power would flush the system..but no luck.
So now about the system.....I have 5 radiators in the house, 3 upstairs and 2 downstairs. as I said upstairs is fine but downstairs the in and out pipes to both radiators are cold. Pump is in a cupboard upstairs beside hot water tank...boiler is downstairs in kitchen.
Now my next venture is to balance the system...but being a poor helpless (yeah that'll be right ) woman, i'm not exactly sure how its done as I dont have radiator thermomitters as i've read you need these....
anyway...do you think this could be the problem? and if not...what could it be???
Bare with me as this is a long story.
In January, house had hot water, no central heating...all radiators were cold.
Everything seemed to be working..had pilot light, pump was doing what it should...just cold radiators...reading your suggestions, I thought there was sludge in the system.
So I went out and bought sludge remover and put this in the header tank. I waited about 1 hour but still no heat.
A friend suggested we try (You'll know what I mean)moving the switch on the wee silver box to "manual" and it worked for a short period of time, as although we still had hot water and heat upstairs, the 2 radiators downstairs were stone cold. Heat would only come through intermittently.
After a few weeks, I again thought maybe all the sludge has sunk to the bottom end of the system...so I drained the whole system..not once or twice, but about 5 times now, And the problem is still the same, hot upstairs, cold downstairs. I have even tried turning the pump up to the 3rd mark to see if the extra power would flush the system..but no luck.
So now about the system.....I have 5 radiators in the house, 3 upstairs and 2 downstairs. as I said upstairs is fine but downstairs the in and out pipes to both radiators are cold. Pump is in a cupboard upstairs beside hot water tank...boiler is downstairs in kitchen.
Now my next venture is to balance the system...but being a poor helpless (yeah that'll be right ) woman, i'm not exactly sure how its done as I dont have radiator thermomitters as i've read you need these....
anyway...do you think this could be the problem? and if not...what could it be???