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Thanks again for everyone who helped sort out my original problem of a stuck return valve and I now have a near perfect central heating system.
I have a problem if any of the skilled guys (and gals) can answer, and I would be very very grateful. To be brief, I have a Victorian 3 bedroomed house with a gravity fed system and a glow-worm boiler (about 1983 - yes it is old). Firstly, the plumber won't service it as he says it is on a list from Corgi as having asbestos in. Where can I find anyone to service it?? I'm down in Maidstone?
The other issue - He looked in the loft and I was shocked to see water dripping from the beams etc. The header tank was steaming, but the water in it was luke warm to hottish. It has no lid, but also an overflow pipe hanging over the top, not in the side. He said firstly my boiler temperature was up too high, then that the system must be sludged up, as one of the radiators is always half empty of air near the loft - bathroom (soon after bleeding). Yet he also said all gravity fed systems give air in a radiator anyway.
I have had it jet flushed in the last year, but he says it can't have been done properly, yet my radiators are all hot (bar that one). My 'magnafilter' was sludged up and water in the pot itself brown when I emptied it yesterday, but then I hadn't emptied it for a while. I have thrown a black bin liner and a towel over the header tank to stop the condensation. Should/can I get a lid fitted (with that pipe hanging over it) and does the header tank always have warm to hotish water in it anyway?? My breath steams up there anyway! When ever I start the system it immediately start filling the header tank too (you can hear it and it runs for a while). Sorry for the long message, but I am reluctant to have another jet flush at £400-500.
Can anyone bear to advise me?? Richard
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Thanks again for everyone who helped sort out my original problem of a stuck return valve and I now have a near perfect central heating system.
I have a problem if any of the skilled guys (and gals) can answer, and I would be very very grateful. To be brief, I have a Victorian 3 bedroomed house with a gravity fed system and a glow-worm boiler (about 1983 - yes it is old). Firstly, the plumber won't service it as he says it is on a list from Corgi as having asbestos in. Where can I find anyone to service it?? I'm down in Maidstone?
The other issue - He looked in the loft and I was shocked to see water dripping from the beams etc. The header tank was steaming, but the water in it was luke warm to hottish. It has no lid, but also an overflow pipe hanging over the top, not in the side. He said firstly my boiler temperature was up too high, then that the system must be sludged up, as one of the radiators is always half empty of air near the loft - bathroom (soon after bleeding). Yet he also said all gravity fed systems give air in a radiator anyway.
I have had it jet flushed in the last year, but he says it can't have been done properly, yet my radiators are all hot (bar that one). My 'magnafilter' was sludged up and water in the pot itself brown when I emptied it yesterday, but then I hadn't emptied it for a while. I have thrown a black bin liner and a towel over the header tank to stop the condensation. Should/can I get a lid fitted (with that pipe hanging over it) and does the header tank always have warm to hotish water in it anyway?? My breath steams up there anyway! When ever I start the system it immediately start filling the header tank too (you can hear it and it runs for a while). Sorry for the long message, but I am reluctant to have another jet flush at £400-500.
Can anyone bear to advise me?? Richard
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