Hi,
We moved to our new rented house 6 weeks ago. When we moved in there was no hot water, the letting agent got the plumber to drain the system so a new valve could be fitted to give us hot water.
Since then the boiler has been banging very loudly, as well as the pipes the come immediately from it. It sounds like someone is hitting them with a hammer.
In addition to this 2 radiators upstairs are very noisy, banging and rattling. It sounds like something is in them.
The thermostat is also faulty, it always thinks the house is 12 degrees and continually heating the house till it is reaching temps of almost 30 (if we are out/asleep for instance).
Our letting agent will not look at these issues - as we have central heating the landlord will not do any repairs. Fine, except my 1 year old son sleeps in the room that has most of the noise and cannot sleep through it, he screams the house down.
We have been told to regulate the temp via the boiler - it has 4 settings but the house still reaches very high temps even on low.
To turn down the valve in my sons room (the rattling only stops at 2 and the radiator pretty much switches off at this temp).
Basically live with the noise as they are not going to do anything about it.
I just wondered if there is anything fairly simple we can do? I dont want to have to choose between my son not sleeping or it being freezing in his room.
We have bled all the radiators - hardly any air came out. My husband accidentaly did it with the heating on once and some black water came out of the noisy radiator.
The radiatior in our room had no air or water come out of it but heats up fine.
The radiator in the spare room has a constant rushing noise all the time.
There are thermostatic controls to the bedroom radiator but not downstairs, there is no control tap for these 4 radiators, just exposed metal at either end so I cant turn these down to regulate the temp.
Help this is driving me crazy. I'm a DIY nembie but if there is something I can do so my son can sleep in a warm room then I'm all for it.
Thanks
We moved to our new rented house 6 weeks ago. When we moved in there was no hot water, the letting agent got the plumber to drain the system so a new valve could be fitted to give us hot water.
Since then the boiler has been banging very loudly, as well as the pipes the come immediately from it. It sounds like someone is hitting them with a hammer.
In addition to this 2 radiators upstairs are very noisy, banging and rattling. It sounds like something is in them.
The thermostat is also faulty, it always thinks the house is 12 degrees and continually heating the house till it is reaching temps of almost 30 (if we are out/asleep for instance).
Our letting agent will not look at these issues - as we have central heating the landlord will not do any repairs. Fine, except my 1 year old son sleeps in the room that has most of the noise and cannot sleep through it, he screams the house down.
We have been told to regulate the temp via the boiler - it has 4 settings but the house still reaches very high temps even on low.
To turn down the valve in my sons room (the rattling only stops at 2 and the radiator pretty much switches off at this temp).
Basically live with the noise as they are not going to do anything about it.
I just wondered if there is anything fairly simple we can do? I dont want to have to choose between my son not sleeping or it being freezing in his room.
We have bled all the radiators - hardly any air came out. My husband accidentaly did it with the heating on once and some black water came out of the noisy radiator.
The radiatior in our room had no air or water come out of it but heats up fine.
The radiator in the spare room has a constant rushing noise all the time.
There are thermostatic controls to the bedroom radiator but not downstairs, there is no control tap for these 4 radiators, just exposed metal at either end so I cant turn these down to regulate the temp.
Help this is driving me crazy. I'm a DIY nembie but if there is something I can do so my son can sleep in a warm room then I'm all for it.
Thanks
