I have a Baxi Bermuda backboiler installed in the house. The heating control is an electronic Honeywell one which is situated at the bottom of the stairs. There is a thermometer next to the hot water tank (square cut out of foam insulation so it is directly on the tank and has a springy cable to hold it in place) in the back bedroom cupboard. The thermometer and water pump is connected to a little white box with a circuit board in it, which then connects to the digital control panel at the bottom of the stairs.
I have 4 radiators in the house. The downstairs ones (living room and bathroom) are getting hot, as is the one in the spare room (which is the one closest to the hot water tank). None of the radiators have their own thermostats.
The radiator that isn't getting hot is the one in the front bedroom. On this radiator is a valve with a small rectangular shaped thing on the top, where a white cover is fitted which is marked + and -. This is turnable left and right.
On the other side is a larger valve that looks like an upsidedown triangle and this is marked on and off.
When the heating is on, the pipe with the small rectangular shaped thing on the top (Valve 1) is extremely hot and the larger valve (Valve 2) is cold. The radiator is only lukewarm.
I have tried bleeding the radiator and no air came out at all - just some black water for a couple of seconds and then a constant flow of lukewarm water.
When I looked at it before I went to bed last night, Valve 1 was only slightly open and Valve 2 was open fully. As I thought the Valve 1 was the flowvalve seeing as it was the hottest, I turned that around a few times to open it up more and kept Valve 2 fully open.
This morning I woke up after the heating had been on for a hour and the back bedroom radiator was hot as usual but the front bedroom was still only lukewarm as it was before.
Does anyone have any ideas of how I can rectify this problem?
Thanks in advance,
Carl
I have 4 radiators in the house. The downstairs ones (living room and bathroom) are getting hot, as is the one in the spare room (which is the one closest to the hot water tank). None of the radiators have their own thermostats.
The radiator that isn't getting hot is the one in the front bedroom. On this radiator is a valve with a small rectangular shaped thing on the top, where a white cover is fitted which is marked + and -. This is turnable left and right.
On the other side is a larger valve that looks like an upsidedown triangle and this is marked on and off.
When the heating is on, the pipe with the small rectangular shaped thing on the top (Valve 1) is extremely hot and the larger valve (Valve 2) is cold. The radiator is only lukewarm.
I have tried bleeding the radiator and no air came out at all - just some black water for a couple of seconds and then a constant flow of lukewarm water.
When I looked at it before I went to bed last night, Valve 1 was only slightly open and Valve 2 was open fully. As I thought the Valve 1 was the flowvalve seeing as it was the hottest, I turned that around a few times to open it up more and kept Valve 2 fully open.
This morning I woke up after the heating had been on for a hour and the back bedroom radiator was hot as usual but the front bedroom was still only lukewarm as it was before.
Does anyone have any ideas of how I can rectify this problem?
Thanks in advance,
Carl
