Hi Folks,
I am about to rip out my central heating and return to the stone age of gas fires and lots of blankets!!! I really have had enough of this system and it is frustrating the heck out of me, i am NOT looking forward to a Christmas of "Dad its cold" and "Nag nag nag yadda yadda"
Can anyone offer advice:
2 Zone (up and down), fully pumped (three zone valves) 8 rooms, conventional rads in 3, skirting rads in 3. No TRV's. 1 pump, boiler 3 years old.
The index radiator (skirting rad in living room, of all rooms!) has ALWAYS been cold no matter what I did with the other valves. (have almost given up on this! and bought an electric fire!)
1 of the normal rads was badly sludged up, so I removed, flushed, replaced and added some X400 (2 litres) to the system
1 week later after running all hot, I drained down (water initially black then clear). The header tank drained to reveal about an inch of orrible guano at the bottom. I bunged the feed hole and cleaned this rubbish out, refilled with water and 2 litres of X100.
Now the all the rads are fine, but 2 of the downstairs rads are freezing cold (not including the skirting rad in the front room which has Always been cold).
I'm sitting in my coat....ready to take a baseball bat to the heating "to teach it a lesson" anybody got any ideas before I get done for GBH to a boiler?
I am about to rip out my central heating and return to the stone age of gas fires and lots of blankets!!! I really have had enough of this system and it is frustrating the heck out of me, i am NOT looking forward to a Christmas of "Dad its cold" and "Nag nag nag yadda yadda"
Can anyone offer advice:
2 Zone (up and down), fully pumped (three zone valves) 8 rooms, conventional rads in 3, skirting rads in 3. No TRV's. 1 pump, boiler 3 years old.
The index radiator (skirting rad in living room, of all rooms!) has ALWAYS been cold no matter what I did with the other valves. (have almost given up on this! and bought an electric fire!)
1 of the normal rads was badly sludged up, so I removed, flushed, replaced and added some X400 (2 litres) to the system
1 week later after running all hot, I drained down (water initially black then clear). The header tank drained to reveal about an inch of orrible guano at the bottom. I bunged the feed hole and cleaned this rubbish out, refilled with water and 2 litres of X100.
Now the all the rads are fine, but 2 of the downstairs rads are freezing cold (not including the skirting rad in the front room which has Always been cold).
I'm sitting in my coat....ready to take a baseball bat to the heating "to teach it a lesson" anybody got any ideas before I get done for GBH to a boiler?
