Draining Central Heating

[Jo1980]

Hubby knocked bracket off radiator whilst doing DIY (lol) and radiator valve started leaking, to cut a long story short we have decided now is the time to replace our old imperial radiators so until plumber can come and do this for us and to stop the leak - hubby has drained central heating.

My question is should i now turn our back boiler off - as far as i know it has a pilot light on all the time you see.

also when i went to plug my immersion heater in it no longer appears to be working - and yet i only had it put in 10 months or so ago - any ideas???

many thanks

 

[GodKnows]

Hi all,

OK, you must turn off the boiler Without any water in the CH circuit it will over-heat and can crack the main HE. The boiler will be then dangerous and a costly replacement....

Check the fuse next to your HW tank for the immersion

 

[Jo1980]

Thanks for your reply.

I turned off the boiler immediately - hopefully no major damage has occurred as pilot light was on for 24 hrs before i did this.

Managed to find the problem with the immersion - it had tripped it's fuse. This is now fixed.

Thanks once again!