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Bab : In answer to your questions:- The header tank is sat on a platform standing about 2/3 feet above the joists, therefore increasing the head. The pipe coming out of the small tank is 22mm and there is no pipe 'Teed' off it. I flushed all the radiators by removing each one in turn...

Happy New Year everyone. Softus - Yes Pipe No 4 is cooler than pipe No 5 with the pump running (which it does all the time by the way whilst the heating is on) The thing that raises doubts with me regarding the boiler "kettling". Why does it only do it after the first 10 minutes of the...

Thanks John D for you thorough posting. I have invented a good New Years Eve party. This is how it goes. Get all your family round and ask them all to go up into the loft and identify what all the pipes do and where they go :lol: It makes it more fun if you haven't got a loft ladder and the...

That brass thing (release valve?) was changed by British Gas about 12 months ago. I think the leak stains occured before it was changed. Getting back to my original question - From where the pump is situated, which way should the flow be going? (arrow on pump body). Currently it is flowing...

Re: Posting Pictures Thanks Softus for the advice. Let me know if you can see these photos.

Softus Sorry, I do not know how to post images to this forum, but if you send me you E mail will send them to you.

weareleeds I believe my system is gravity fed. The header tank is in the attic and is open i.e. just got a plastic lid on it. It is topped up via cold water mains through a normal ball cock system. The outlet is at the bottom to one side. The pump is at the top of the stairs in the airing...

I am having trouble with a noisy C.H system and reading some of the other comments got me thinking. I have had my C.H pump off for flushing and have now got doubts that I put it back the right way round. Should the arrow point away from the boiler or towards it?(and towards the header tank in...

I will ley you know if the boiler responds. Also let me know the outcome from your visiting engineer in the New Year..Good Luck and a very happy new year to you .....Pete Thanks. I think we should compare notes in the New Year. Do you know if there is a temperature setting on the boiler. If...

Thankyou all for your replies, but so far nothing has helped. I have checked the header tank in the attic and it is about 2/3rds full of water. I have checked for obstructions in the pipe fom the tank to the boiler. Again no problems found. I have this hunch that there is a fault within the...

Thanks for the reply. You may be right about the bolier needing de-sludging, but I have already had all the radiators off and flushed them out thoroughly. Also I have added Fernox to the system. Still the problem persists. It seems to me that when the boiler first fires up there is no water...

I have been having problems with my central heating bolier for some time now. To cut a long story short, the problem occurs after about 10 minutes from when the boiler first fires up. An audible click from the boiler is followed by the sound of water rushing through the pipes from the boiler. A...

After about 10 minutes of turning my central heating on, world war 3 takes place. I get unearthly banging in the pipes to and from the pump and the boiler keeps shutting down. Eventually it sorts itself out and runs normally until it comes on again the next morning. Any suggestions? :evil: