Hi guys, if you've been following my screwed up heating system - this is the next chapter
bascially its an open vent system with a new cylinder, pump, 3port valve and programmer recently installed - everything is installed and working in terms of the individual items - the boiler fires, the pump goes round, everything is bled BUT there is no hot water circulating from teh boiler (which gets hot) to the pump!
the pipes out of the boilder are hot but at the pump its cold! - anyway, having struggled to figure all this out we got British Gas to come in for their one price fixes all deal, so this guy turns up - firstly says that the pipework is wrong and the cold feed needs to be moved to the pipe at the back (i wasn't there for that - cos that meant putting the cold feed into the pipe going into the pump from the boiler - err not quite right i think)
so next day he returns and now says that they don't need to do that but that there is a blockage and we need a powerflush that isn't covered, and also cos our boiler is so old they can't cover that and can't fix the problem - see you later bye!
so now i'm back to where i started - in a cold house! if there is a blockage between the boiler and the pump i can't see that it just suddenly formed when we drained the system to change the cylinder?? is there anyway of detecting this blockage, which must be in the pipework under the floor boards and is the power flush the only way to fix this - we couldn't say find the blockage, replace that piece of pipework and then treat the system chemically afterwards?!?
its all so frustrating!!!!
bascially its an open vent system with a new cylinder, pump, 3port valve and programmer recently installed - everything is installed and working in terms of the individual items - the boiler fires, the pump goes round, everything is bled BUT there is no hot water circulating from teh boiler (which gets hot) to the pump!
the pipes out of the boilder are hot but at the pump its cold! - anyway, having struggled to figure all this out we got British Gas to come in for their one price fixes all deal, so this guy turns up - firstly says that the pipework is wrong and the cold feed needs to be moved to the pipe at the back (i wasn't there for that - cos that meant putting the cold feed into the pipe going into the pump from the boiler - err not quite right i think)
so next day he returns and now says that they don't need to do that but that there is a blockage and we need a powerflush that isn't covered, and also cos our boiler is so old they can't cover that and can't fix the problem - see you later bye!
so now i'm back to where i started - in a cold house! if there is a blockage between the boiler and the pump i can't see that it just suddenly formed when we drained the system to change the cylinder?? is there anyway of detecting this blockage, which must be in the pipework under the floor boards and is the power flush the only way to fix this - we couldn't say find the blockage, replace that piece of pipework and then treat the system chemically afterwards?!?
its all so frustrating!!!!