I have a lot of radiator problems!
First off we have a rusty radiator I want to clean up and repaint - I have a hammerite rust beater, but it says I can't use it on certain metals - being a bit useless, I don't know what my radiator is made from. We also have a variety of badly behaving radiators, three of which are stone cold, two that are hot at the bottom and cool at the top and two that we can't switch off even with the thermostat knobs on the side. I don't think it helps that our system was retro fitted into the house with three different pipe layouts. We've tried bleeding and twiddling the thermostats on all the radiators and nothing changes. Its getting frustrating, we've had problems with the system since we moved in and we've never had all the radiators working at any one time.
We had a gas and heating guy come around last year to service the boiler and he got two of the radiators going again, temporarily - they stopped as soon as he left. I don't know what he did to the boiler, but now you can scald your hands under the hot tap if you are not careful, and its on its lowest possible heat setting! Our heating system is a gas fired ACL Lifestyle, and in the airing cupboard it has a little timer box, and a little box below that with a lever which I haven't dared move in case I do some irrevocable damage. It has the letters W M H and its currently pointing to H. Would this be the cause of the practically boiling water? Is it safe to change? Knowing my luck it means "warm, medium and hot" and I should have changed it ages ago but we've never had a manual to check. Any ideas at all would be greatfully received!
First off we have a rusty radiator I want to clean up and repaint - I have a hammerite rust beater, but it says I can't use it on certain metals - being a bit useless, I don't know what my radiator is made from. We also have a variety of badly behaving radiators, three of which are stone cold, two that are hot at the bottom and cool at the top and two that we can't switch off even with the thermostat knobs on the side. I don't think it helps that our system was retro fitted into the house with three different pipe layouts. We've tried bleeding and twiddling the thermostats on all the radiators and nothing changes. Its getting frustrating, we've had problems with the system since we moved in and we've never had all the radiators working at any one time.
We had a gas and heating guy come around last year to service the boiler and he got two of the radiators going again, temporarily - they stopped as soon as he left. I don't know what he did to the boiler, but now you can scald your hands under the hot tap if you are not careful, and its on its lowest possible heat setting! Our heating system is a gas fired ACL Lifestyle, and in the airing cupboard it has a little timer box, and a little box below that with a lever which I haven't dared move in case I do some irrevocable damage. It has the letters W M H and its currently pointing to H. Would this be the cause of the practically boiling water? Is it safe to change? Knowing my luck it means "warm, medium and hot" and I should have changed it ages ago but we've never had a manual to check. Any ideas at all would be greatfully received!