Guys,
I’ve recently had a go at balancing my gas central heating system with mixed results. My house is a 4 bed detached and has around 12 rads in the house. I used a digital thermometer and achieved a drop off of around 10-11C across nearly all the rads.
The boiler is outputting water at around 81C and showing 62C on the return.
Most of the rads are running about 80C on the input and roughly 70C on the output however I have 2 upstairs bedroom ones that are struggling and I don’t understand why. They are getting about 77-78C into the rad but the output falls towards lows 50C’s on both. Even having the flow fully open I cannot get this much higher.
Any ideas what could be causing this and if there is anything I can do ?
Also a plumber has somehow managed to install a couple of the rads with the Thermostatic valves on the wrong side ie on the return and not the input…obviously this screw up the temp control a bit but apart from that would this cause any other problem ?
Thanks in advance,
Mike.
I’ve recently had a go at balancing my gas central heating system with mixed results. My house is a 4 bed detached and has around 12 rads in the house. I used a digital thermometer and achieved a drop off of around 10-11C across nearly all the rads.
The boiler is outputting water at around 81C and showing 62C on the return.
Most of the rads are running about 80C on the input and roughly 70C on the output however I have 2 upstairs bedroom ones that are struggling and I don’t understand why. They are getting about 77-78C into the rad but the output falls towards lows 50C’s on both. Even having the flow fully open I cannot get this much higher.
Any ideas what could be causing this and if there is anything I can do ?
Also a plumber has somehow managed to install a couple of the rads with the Thermostatic valves on the wrong side ie on the return and not the input…obviously this screw up the temp control a bit but apart from that would this cause any other problem ?
Thanks in advance,
Mike.