just looking for some addvice. the mother of my kids is renting a house and asking the landlord to do anything. well it would be easyer smashing your head off brick wall!!! but the problem is there is only one radiator that only gets warm in the full house! last winter i tryed to bleed them but still no better. has anyone got any ideas that could help me please?
cold radiators
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D
dextrous
Apart from advice in using capital letter and a spell checker, what advice are you asking for - legal or with regard to fixing the radiators?
D
dextrous
Okey dokey. A few more details will help. What sort of heating system is it (a combi, or cylinder with a boiler)?
Which radiator is warm - eg is it the bathroom one?
When you bled the radiators, did they go warm at all?
Have you opened all the radiator valves?
Does closing the one that does get warm enable another to get warm in it's place?
At present, we can only fish for possible causes, and the more details you can give, the better the chance of getting somewhere.
Could be as simple as the pump not running.
Which radiator is warm - eg is it the bathroom one?
When you bled the radiators, did they go warm at all?
Have you opened all the radiator valves?
Does closing the one that does get warm enable another to get warm in it's place?
At present, we can only fish for possible causes, and the more details you can give, the better the chance of getting somewhere.
Could be as simple as the pump not running.
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thanks for your help so far. its a combi boiler witch is placed in middle landing at top of stairs. yeah all the valves at the bottom of ever heater are opend up. the one that gets a little warm is less than 4ft away from the boiler. and when i closed the valves on that one the boiler lost all its pressure? so i opend the valves back up and had to open the filling loop on boiler so she could get hot water again. have you got any more ideas please? thanks again for taking time to help me.
Stop paying the rent!!!
1 wheelhead valves or TRVs ?
2 are the lockshields open ?
3 is the pump running ?
4 whats the system pressure cold ?
2 are the lockshields open ?
3 is the pump running ?
4 whats the system pressure cold ?
D
dextrous
Thinking as I'm typing here.
How can closing the closest rad (used possibly as a bypass) cause the system to lose all its pressure? Unless there was a local blockage/airlock and closing this rad had shifted it in part due to diverting pressure into the flow??????? Plausable???? So I'm guessing an airlock in the flow pipework.
How can closing the closest rad (used possibly as a bypass) cause the system to lose all its pressure? Unless there was a local blockage/airlock and closing this rad had shifted it in part due to diverting pressure into the flow??????? Plausable???? So I'm guessing an airlock in the flow pipework.
G
Goldspoon
I HAD to go to school. My mother and father said it was the law in fact. How did you manage to opt out?
D
dextrous
TRV - Thermostatic valves with numbers on them.
Wheelhead valves - simple valves that you turn on/off by rotating, about 1 1/2" high.
Lockshield valve - ones that are not readily adjustable.
Which of these are fitted on the radiators?
i wont bore you with the full facts but my dad past away when i was 3 yrs old. and bye the time i was ment to be in secondre school my mam was a old laddy that needed looked after. thats how i never went to school coz my mam was ment more to me than school.
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