Dear all
No heating for a week now and the wife and kids are losing sense of humour. Me too!
I have no flow or v slow flowing central heating. Upstairs rads heat up v slowly and no heat downstairs. Boiler out pipe gets very hot though all the way up to and beyond the pump.
I think the pump is OK as it is flowing through the little bathroom rad on its own loop. Also heating the hot water OK. I've switched off the bath rad as it was just pumping round this tiny loop and no heat going to any other rads. Switching off pushed more heat to upstairs rads but still mostly cold after an hour. I've got the taps wide open.
Worcester boiler engineer came out and pronounced it is fine. Although it is overheating if I just run the central heating side of things.
System drains down OK too. So I don't think its a dodgy valve.
I even back flushed by attaching the garden hose to the drain tap. Water coming out fine into the header tank.
Return pipe to boiler seems to stay cool. Something is getting through but very little.
Does this mean the pipes are blocked on the return loop to the boiler?
I can't think of another explanation.
Starting to get desperate now. Is it time for a power flush?
I don't know how else I would get to that part of the loop.
Tips most welcome.
Ta
S
No heating for a week now and the wife and kids are losing sense of humour. Me too!
I have no flow or v slow flowing central heating. Upstairs rads heat up v slowly and no heat downstairs. Boiler out pipe gets very hot though all the way up to and beyond the pump.
I think the pump is OK as it is flowing through the little bathroom rad on its own loop. Also heating the hot water OK. I've switched off the bath rad as it was just pumping round this tiny loop and no heat going to any other rads. Switching off pushed more heat to upstairs rads but still mostly cold after an hour. I've got the taps wide open.
Worcester boiler engineer came out and pronounced it is fine. Although it is overheating if I just run the central heating side of things.
System drains down OK too. So I don't think its a dodgy valve.
I even back flushed by attaching the garden hose to the drain tap. Water coming out fine into the header tank.
Return pipe to boiler seems to stay cool. Something is getting through but very little.
Does this mean the pipes are blocked on the return loop to the boiler?
I can't think of another explanation.
Starting to get desperate now. Is it time for a power flush?
I don't know how else I would get to that part of the loop.
Tips most welcome.
Ta
S
