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Central Heating Problems Hope someone can help me figure out this problem. I seem to be getting air in my central heating system – for the last month or so I regularly have to bleed an upstairs rad which appears to be at the end of the system. The heating system is getting nosier by the...

I have a Baxi Solo 2 boiler which has suddenly started making a loud, rapid "clicking" noise when there is a central heating demand. Sounds like a microswitch coming in and out (?). Clicking lasts anything from a few seconds to a minute or so... seems to be getting worse. As soon as I switch off...

Yorkie... you have the same mid position valve as I do. Mine is installed in the most awkward place imaginable... trouble I have is the small board inside the valve has come loose so the microswitches aren't working properly... I can't see the valve without the use of a mirror and a torch but...

I had a blocked feed from my FE tank and found that the best way to unblock it (apart from taking all the pipework out) was to use a net curtain spring wire thing (the bit you push through the curtain to hang it up)! It's small enough to bend round 90 deg joints but rigid enough to push its way...

The drive belt has snapped on my Zanussi TC 481TC condenser drier. Any tips on the easiest way to change it? Do I need to take the whole back of the machine off to slip the belt over the drum and then over onto the pulley. There is an access panel on the back but I think it may be for the...

I have a Landis & Gyr (now Seimens) MAV-322 mid position valve. I changed the synchronous ac motor this morning. The valve is in the most awkward place imaginable. I had to fit the motor virtually just by feel as the valve is squashed between the side of hot water cylinder and the cupboard...

The Drayton RTS1 is an electronic thermostat and as the previous chap says will only go click if there is 240V to it, i.e. your timer is providing a demand. Inside the stat there should be 4 wires. neutral, live, demand (to mid posn valve) and earth. In all likeliness it's your mid position...

Thanks guys, I really appreciate your time... I think with youur help we have narrowed the problem, with the divertor valve manually locked (not sure if its mid way or not) I get heating when there is a demand for hot water. Put the valve on auto and I still get HW but no CH....

Thanks guys... I think you've put me on to something...with the 3way valve manually locked open I get central heating when there is a demand for hot water...if I put the 3 way valve onto auto, I don't get any central heating at all. How fast does the valve motor open, I have no one to help at...

AB:When there is a demand for heat and there is no heat, the boiler is not running.... although I "think" i can hear the fan running.... s4: the house is too cold, the rads are cold, the boiler wont fire, when the central heating does run, the rads do get hot and the boiler toggles on and off...

I have shorted the room stat out so as to elimate a problem with this. The stat is on the stairs so isn't getting any direct heating from a rad or other heat source. The rads are stone cold overnight and appear to get warm in the day so maybe it is something to do with the 3 port valve Hot water...

I seem to have an intermittent fault on my Baxi Solo 2 RS 50 boiler. When I demand central heating sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. The hot water system is fine and the radiators do get hot when the system is running. I have fitted a new pump and also checked the pump overrun is...

First of all remember to switch the pump and boiler off before doing anything. Bleed the rads in the normal way (i.e. crack open vent valve on top of each rad until you get a sustained flow of water). If you have an airlock I found the following tip very useful. Find a rad with a drain outlet...

I have a Baxi Solo 2 boiler. I have had some trouble with my central heating system for a while and now seem to be chasing my tail. Problem: the central heating runs for about 20 minutes and then the boiler/pump stop. Rads upstairs are piping hot, 4 of the 5 rads downstairs are hot too, the last...

I have problems with my fully pumped central heating system. It seems that I am getting excess air in my central heating system. I have bled all radiators (when the system is cold) and on each occasion there seems to be a lot of air in the system. When the central heating is up to temperature I...