Recent content by Briddy

If it's a gravity-fed system, it could be that when you bled the radiators you were actually letting air in instead of out. We had this with our system. What happens apparently (according to my brother in law who is a plumber) is that you get a reverse flow of hot water up to the header tank...

Our CH system is about 25 years old, and we've lived in the house 13 years. We've always had unreliable heat upstairs, but recently it has got worse, all the upstairs rads are now cold, with the exception of the one directly above where the boiler is, which is luke warm. The water in the...