Help......no clue now radiator problem

[klaud]

Hi
Please can anyone give me any advice.

I moved into my house six years ago and found the top spare bedroom radiator stone cold, I never worried about it until now. I have had a new boiler put in /no change/i have beld the whole system..no change.......i have now replaced the radiator.........no change.

I've just sold my house and i don't want to do to the new buyer what the people did to us which was..............It worked ok for us!!!!!!


Please help im stressing out

 

[seco services]

didn't the installers say nothing when they fitted the new boiler.

 

[Biguns]

When you took off the old rad, did you do the bucket test, to see if there was flow from both valves

 

[klaud]

whats a bucket test?

 

[seco services]

open each valve over a bowl or bucket to see if you have flow.

 

[Biguns]

You replaced a rad that did not work, for a reason not known. When you removed the old rad, you open each valve to see if there is a good flow into a bucket or other receptacle. This would have confirmed or eliminated a cause of your problem

 

[klaud]

i think that was done. it had water in it and pressure?The plumber drained the system and refilled it again. He says he is stomped and needs to think

 

[seco services]

is the flow and return piped in properly then.

 

[Biguns]

Ahh! you have got a tradesman on the case. Just out of curiosity, did he change the rad

 

[klaud]

I don't know im just thinking to myself oh my god is it a problems with the pipes. How expensive will that be and sadly for me i can't screw over the nice couple who have brought the house. I just want to give them the house working and i can walk away head high ;-(

 

[klaud]

new radiator and temperature knob

 

[seco services]

How expensive will that be

how longs the string ?

valves both have flow.
rad fills.
you bleed rad it has pressure.

have you tried shut the other rads and see what happens.
has the rad got a trv fitted ?
do any of the pipes get hot to the rad at all ?

 

[klaud]

Shut the rads down no heat
The pipes under the radiator going into the floor are cold
i don't know what a trv is

 

[seco services]

like this on the end of the pipe/rad.

 

[klaud]

yes