Hi.
My house has thermostatic valves fitted on some of my rads. Already fitted when I moved in. I thought I'd see if balancing could help with little or no heat getting to an upstairs radiator.
1) On one of my ground floor radiators the valve at the opposite end to the TRV has all the appearance of being an ordinary manual valve. There is no cap. It has arrows pointing clockwise towards "shut". Only when I turned this off completely did I get the rad to cool down. Before my last quarter turn of the valve the rad was still hot.
What sort of set-up have I got here?
2) On another rad where one valve opposite to the TRV certainly seems to be a lockshield valve the nut is (before I did anything) turned completely to the right (clockwise). That rad should be off. Yes? But the heat flows through.
My house has thermostatic valves fitted on some of my rads. Already fitted when I moved in. I thought I'd see if balancing could help with little or no heat getting to an upstairs radiator.
1) On one of my ground floor radiators the valve at the opposite end to the TRV has all the appearance of being an ordinary manual valve. There is no cap. It has arrows pointing clockwise towards "shut". Only when I turned this off completely did I get the rad to cool down. Before my last quarter turn of the valve the rad was still hot.
What sort of set-up have I got here?
2) On another rad where one valve opposite to the TRV certainly seems to be a lockshield valve the nut is (before I did anything) turned completely to the right (clockwise). That rad should be off. Yes? But the heat flows through.