I have just moved in to a new house and hove problems with the central heating
radiators eiher didn't work or worked very badly
central heating is run off a backboiler from living room fire
i have taken all the radiators off and cleaned loads of thick black sludge out of them and all baring one is now running fine should be able to solve that easily enough
my problem is i don't know how to fill the system back up
i have done its mostly barring one radiator at the mminuteby connecting the garden hose up in place of a radiator and filling and bbleedingthe system from there then turning the valve off and connecting the radiator back in but this leaves me with a rradiatorswworthof air in ( or more!)
i cant find a filler loop anyware i hhaven'tdone any thing about pulling the fire out to look for it as i don't think it will be hidden back there
the system is quite old and run off 10mm copper pipe there is a small header tank in the loft which is full the water llooksclear but there llooksto be a lot of rust in the bbottomof the plastic tub could this be blocked from here in to the system dose it fill from here ?
also this small tubs overflow goes directly in a large tub which i assume feeds the rest of the house water i assume this to be bad as for potententil contamination if the rads feed back to this if its even anything to do with the ch system i haven't bean able to trace many of the pipes as the loft has bean converted hiding most the pipe work in the loft
i am at a loss with this and dont know where to go from here !
radiators eiher didn't work or worked very badly
central heating is run off a backboiler from living room fire
i have taken all the radiators off and cleaned loads of thick black sludge out of them and all baring one is now running fine should be able to solve that easily enough
my problem is i don't know how to fill the system back up
i have done its mostly barring one radiator at the mminuteby connecting the garden hose up in place of a radiator and filling and bbleedingthe system from there then turning the valve off and connecting the radiator back in but this leaves me with a rradiatorswworthof air in ( or more!)
i cant find a filler loop anyware i hhaven'tdone any thing about pulling the fire out to look for it as i don't think it will be hidden back there
the system is quite old and run off 10mm copper pipe there is a small header tank in the loft which is full the water llooksclear but there llooksto be a lot of rust in the bbottomof the plastic tub could this be blocked from here in to the system dose it fill from here ?
also this small tubs overflow goes directly in a large tub which i assume feeds the rest of the house water i assume this to be bad as for potententil contamination if the rads feed back to this if its even anything to do with the ch system i haven't bean able to trace many of the pipes as the loft has bean converted hiding most the pipe work in the loft
i am at a loss with this and dont know where to go from here !