Recent content by James4791

i will try the boiler on with all rads off to see if that works. Not sure how to check if pump valves are fully open?? Does sound like it could be a pump problem being dragged out!

Hi - thanks again for your comments - really useful. The boiler doesn't show an error code - just fires up for 20-30 seconds, bangs a few times, then stops. The bathroom guy didn't drain the system to my knowledge - he did fit a new radiator but it was in the same place as the old one...

Hi Tony, I don't think he did - I seem to remember him saying that he could hear the pump running, but that's all. James

Hi Micky, That's right - the plumber suggested we turn off all radiators except one, so we would know when the water started to circulate as that one radiator would warm up.... 5 days on and it's still flat cold and he's suggesting we leave it until the end of the week... james

Thanks Tony, Tony & John, Here’s the update… Re-bled two top radiators and both run clear water at a constant trickle – but nothing forceful. Just looked at the pump which is already on setting ‘3’ – not sure if the plumber had moved this up last week though? In the loft the expansion...

Hi, Thanks for your replies! Please excuse some of my answers – I will try to answer with what I know (which isn’t a great deal)… I have an Ideal Icos HE24 – just a traditional gas heating system with a cold water tank in the loft and hot water tank in the airing cupboard and no...

Hi, I would be very grateful for your thoughts on my boiler situation! About 2 weeks ago my boiler started banging and popping on a Friday evening. I switched it off for a while, then restarted it over the weekend and still the same. I called a gas safe engineer on Monday who identified...