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plumbandpumber Update: I tried again, what you suggested, as the last time I did it was before I flushed the system and there is a slight difference. When I turn off the upstairs rads, the downstairs ones do get some heat. They're not hot but definitely warmer than before and the last of the...

BARNY78BG We managed to get a guy in and he said he didn't want to do a powerflush this close to Christmas as it could burst a pipe. He told me of a blockage in the pipe and how to try to clear it IF i could find it. He was confident of the area the blockage would be in and given what I think...

Update to the problem. I was told I had a blockage in a pipe, as the water coming from the flow or return on one side of a rad, pumped out under pressure, while the other side didn't. I pulled up some floor boards and found a T joint in a pipe, where the pipe going into the T and the pipe coming...

Ah! Well, I've got no problem with the hot water so it must be ok. The guy that cleaned the HE said he was going to balance the radiators but I wasn't here when he did it so I can't be sure. My Wife said she thinks he did but.... I read a detailed walkthru on here, about balancing the rads so...

Yeah sorry, it is a combi. Excuse my denseness but when you say little or no hot water, you mean to the radiators, right? I have lots of steaming hot water from the taps. Isolating valves under the boiler. Ok, that makes it clearer and explains why I couldn't find them. Thank you!

Thanks Tony! I know it is just me but I can't see the isolating valves. However, something you wrote gives me an idea. If I drain the upstairs rads, then no water should escape the pump anyway. Is that right? If I strip the pump while it is still connected to the boiler, will I need to...

Tony, have I p###ed on your Hush Puppies at sometime? You seem a bit grumpy with me. The fact that I can't find someone reliable is the reason I am doing it myself and if it is something I can do, yes I would prefer to save a couple hundred quid. Hence the reason I am on a DIY help forum. You...

The upstairs rads are getting hot but the downstairs ones aren't. The first downstairs rad in the filling order (I think) is less than luke warm, the next is virtually cold and the last is freezing. We've done the balancing bit but they still didn't get hot. I was told by an engineer a power...

I want to strip down my pump to see if the impeller is sludged up or detached from the spindle. I can't see how to shut off the water to or from it so if I take it apart by removing the 3 allen screws, will it just flood with water? If so, can someone tell me how to isolate it? Also, when I...

I had a small leak on a radiator once and had to top up the pressure everyday. I don't think you need to lose much for the pressure to drop.

Well, let down in the sense that 3 have arranged to come round to fix it or diagnose then fix but it is still broke and I have had no heating because no one has actually turned up to do what they say they can do. Maybe heating engineers have a different set of morals but I call that 'being let...

Tony, thanks for the reply but I didn't mean to suggest any arrogance towards a lack of skill set needed for your profession. On the contrary, I wouldn't be searching the net for help if that were the case. I had a heating engineer tell me I needed a power flush to solve the problem or I could...

I have the same boiler and I understand the pump isn't working as it should. It isn't pumping to the downstairs radiators. A heating engineer has let me down and, after watching some videos, decided it looked easy enough to do it myself. However, after looking at the pump itself, it looks far...