I have been trying to fix my heating for a little while now. Back in February my heating was working spot on, since it has been idle for the summer I am now experiencing issues with cold radiators.
After balancing them numerous times I had home serve out 3 times who haven't done anything more than I have even though we are paying for central heating cover, which is pretty darn useless as there not interested in sorting anything unless the issue stares them in the face.
Anyway I digress
Today I tried flushing the system. Both my rads in the lounge have hose tails on, so I plugged the hose pipe on the rad that doesn't work, and the drain on the one that does work. Have locked off all the radiators individually and all seemed to return ok.
Except for the hot feed to the radiator that doesn't work. This did seem to be blocked as couldn't here the water going through this pipe and the drain outside came to a standstill.
So I'm pretty certain this pipe is blocked, where it goes to I have no idea though.
We then took the rad off and gave that a good flush, some black sludge came out but I have seen much much worse in my dad's house.
Any way refilled the system, bled the air out the system, put heating on, downstairs rad are all boiling hot except for the one that doesn't work in the lounge, none of the upstairs rads worked.
So balanced the rads, now the rad in the bathroom works, and the rad in the baby's room half works.
The master bedroom feed pipe is burning to touch, but the rad is stone cold.
The 2nd rad in the lounge does not work.
Switched off all the lock Shields to the radiators down stairs, leaving the upstairs and the rad in the lounge that doesn't work, on. This kept making the boiler shutdown due to over hea ting, and the return feed to the boiler was stone cold, none of the rads that were on worked.
Reset all the lock Shields on all the rads, and now back to square one.
I know there is clearly a blocked pipe, how I trace this I do not know. It's seems to only affect the radiator in the main bedroom, and the 2nd rad in the lounge.
The rad in the main bedroom is the closest to the boiler, the 2nd rad in the lounge was an add on at some stage.
It seems odd that the rad not workin in the lounge is affecting the rad upstairs.
The boiler was making some funky noises while just the upstairs radiators were on.
After balancing them numerous times I had home serve out 3 times who haven't done anything more than I have even though we are paying for central heating cover, which is pretty darn useless as there not interested in sorting anything unless the issue stares them in the face.
Anyway I digress
Today I tried flushing the system. Both my rads in the lounge have hose tails on, so I plugged the hose pipe on the rad that doesn't work, and the drain on the one that does work. Have locked off all the radiators individually and all seemed to return ok.
Except for the hot feed to the radiator that doesn't work. This did seem to be blocked as couldn't here the water going through this pipe and the drain outside came to a standstill.
So I'm pretty certain this pipe is blocked, where it goes to I have no idea though.
We then took the rad off and gave that a good flush, some black sludge came out but I have seen much much worse in my dad's house.
Any way refilled the system, bled the air out the system, put heating on, downstairs rad are all boiling hot except for the one that doesn't work in the lounge, none of the upstairs rads worked.
So balanced the rads, now the rad in the bathroom works, and the rad in the baby's room half works.
The master bedroom feed pipe is burning to touch, but the rad is stone cold.
The 2nd rad in the lounge does not work.
Switched off all the lock Shields to the radiators down stairs, leaving the upstairs and the rad in the lounge that doesn't work, on. This kept making the boiler shutdown due to over hea ting, and the return feed to the boiler was stone cold, none of the rads that were on worked.
Reset all the lock Shields on all the rads, and now back to square one.
I know there is clearly a blocked pipe, how I trace this I do not know. It's seems to only affect the radiator in the main bedroom, and the 2nd rad in the lounge.
The rad in the main bedroom is the closest to the boiler, the 2nd rad in the lounge was an add on at some stage.
It seems odd that the rad not workin in the lounge is affecting the rad upstairs.
The boiler was making some funky noises while just the upstairs radiators were on.