Recent content by Brendanmurray

Thanks for the reply. It is purely at start-up that we get this slight blow then suction. The water level in the tank is about 4 -5 inches deep and even though it was cleaned out with Fernox F5 and flushed out just 9 weeks ago, the water looks rather murky. Strange that the boiler...

When we moved into our house there was an old Potterton Neatheat 10/16 boiler which eventually gave up on us and an Ideal Class installed in it's place (that done professionally), this was about 8 years ago. One thing we are suffering with right now is the constant need to bleed the radiators...

Thanks for your input - the system is balanced Although, the local plumbers merchants run by a guy who is a CH engineer, told me that on this type of system the balancing of the pumped rads won't make too much of a difference to the gravity fed rad/water heater coil as the gravity feed will...

Hi Guys, my first post so go gentle please! My heating system is the kind with a header tank in the loft. There are 4 double radiators downstairs and 3 single radiators upstairs that run off the pump plus one in the bathroom which runs when the hot water is being heated and is gravity fed...