Hi everyone, I'm new to the forum and to plumbing/heating.
I just moved to France because of work and I've moved into a house with a vaillant gas boiler. I tried to look the model up and it should be some atmoTop plus or Atmotop vmc plus.
Since I moved in this appartment I've had the gas installed 2 weeks ago and immediately after it was cut due to a dangerous gas leak.
After a week they managed to put it back on and as soon as the technicians left I discovered a water leak from below the boiler and switched it off because I got scared.
After another week (all of this without heating or hot water in a house with no furniture in a country where I know nobody) a technician came and got the boiler started saying that there was a problem with a valve that leaked water.
The boiler was running so I had heating and hot water but the small water leak caused the pressure to drop to zero while I was at work.
When I got home I raised the pressure as the technician told me: by opening two taps. This happened almost instantly and the pressure was approximately 1.5 bar.
After that I switched on the heating but only the top part of the radiator next to the boiler got warm, the rest of the radiator is cold and the rest of the house is freezing.
I will upload some images of the boiler and radiator. The boiler has indicated with two arrows the two taps I opened to raise the pressure (I had to use a flathead screw driver).
I tried bleeding the radiators but only water came out (and the fact that the hot part is the top one also suggests that bleeding is not the issue).
I tried isolating the radiator which was giving me problems but that didn;t help either.
I tried also leaving only the bathroom radiator on but that didnt heat it up either.
If anyone can help me they would really make my day. I cannot do it anymore without heating or showering, plus it's snowing all weekend.
Thanks in advance,
Laurence
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I just moved to France because of work and I've moved into a house with a vaillant gas boiler. I tried to look the model up and it should be some atmoTop plus or Atmotop vmc plus.
Since I moved in this appartment I've had the gas installed 2 weeks ago and immediately after it was cut due to a dangerous gas leak.
After a week they managed to put it back on and as soon as the technicians left I discovered a water leak from below the boiler and switched it off because I got scared.
After another week (all of this without heating or hot water in a house with no furniture in a country where I know nobody) a technician came and got the boiler started saying that there was a problem with a valve that leaked water.
The boiler was running so I had heating and hot water but the small water leak caused the pressure to drop to zero while I was at work.
When I got home I raised the pressure as the technician told me: by opening two taps. This happened almost instantly and the pressure was approximately 1.5 bar.
After that I switched on the heating but only the top part of the radiator next to the boiler got warm, the rest of the radiator is cold and the rest of the house is freezing.
I will upload some images of the boiler and radiator. The boiler has indicated with two arrows the two taps I opened to raise the pressure (I had to use a flathead screw driver).
I tried bleeding the radiators but only water came out (and the fact that the hot part is the top one also suggests that bleeding is not the issue).
I tried isolating the radiator which was giving me problems but that didn;t help either.
I tried also leaving only the bathroom radiator on but that didnt heat it up either.
If anyone can help me they would really make my day. I cannot do it anymore without heating or showering, plus it's snowing all weekend.
Thanks in advance,
Laurence
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