Recent content by esky365

Hi again, we are now sorted. :) WE got a second opinion, and he spent a lot longer investigating our system. He used a magnet as described above and found a blockage. He cleaned out that bit of pipe work and said that would do us for a while at least, but it would likely reform as the...

Ok, the guy came from Sheffield today. He concentrated on the tank area, and said it was possibly a blockage in the internal coil. He took the top off the pump and said that should have been pouring out, all he got was a drip. He reckons that what we need is a powerflush and a magna clean...

Thanks for all the replies. I have a bloke coming all the way from Sheffield, he reckons I may need a new boiler. If he says so, I will find another guy for a 2nd opinion. I will of course report back on what cures it all. As no-one on here reckons the potterton is knackered, that's...

Ok, thanks. I do apreciate your help. Shame you are not in Barnsley. :)

Thanks for all the comments. I have been looking at it again, and perhaps optimistically. However I am thinking if the hot feed pipe into the tank is really hot, and I mean right onto the tank, and the tank is sort of tepid. Does this suggest that the tank itself is simply full of...

I have bled the rads, and they did top up. Incidentally, I am not on here so I can bodge it all back together again, I am on here so I can get my head round this stuff when the heating engineer calls. I spoke to him on the phone before coming here, and he reckoned if it wasn't the...

How can that be fixed?

I can see the motor valves working, the switch moves across when I press "on" the controls on the hot water. There are three pipes on the hot water tank. The lowest is cold, the one above that is scalding hot, just where it enters the tank, that is just past the motor valve, and the one at...

The entire system has been fine for almost three years since we moved in. I have never touched it other than bleeding the radiators. The radiators are perfectly hot, the boiler springs into life and rarely locks out. Yet we have no hot water. It is sort of tepid. It started about a week ago...