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Thanks for your negative input.But where have i said the boiler has stopped ? As for wasting time on this site,my husband has learned quite a bit from the kind people on here trying to help. Times are hard,we are a young family with 2 children.Dont you think if we could afford a heating...

The pump is upstairs in airing cupboard next to cylinder dont no if pump is fitted wrong way. The bathroom is downstairs in our house so dont think its plumbed into hot water.

Thanks for the reply specialk, ill ask him. Although he says its doing funny things now. When you turn heating on the only rad we have upstairs is nice & hot the rads downstairs start to get warm at feed pipes untill he hears a gushing noise & hot water goes up vent pipe to exp tank in...

ok, hubby has drained some water from the lowest rad with ballcock tied up, tightened drain plug back up, checked level in header tank, ballcock released and refills so he's assuming cold feed not blocked?

So without doing anything last night the rads got hot on their own,today boiler came on as normal (5.30) hot water good,1 rad upstairs hot but downstairs cold. The rads DONT have air in as when u bleed all u get is water. The downstairs rads get warm for short periods, only if u keep...

Hi, yes it is a 3 way honeywell motorised valve and hubby seems to think it's working ok as (now don't chuckle) we've been on telephones to each other, him in the airing cupboard and me at the heating controls and as i'm turning heating and hot water on and off he can feel the resistance on the...

ok so now the 1 upstairs rad on the landing is boiling hot, but the rest are still cold :? I have subjected to sitting in the kitchen with the gas hob on for warmth as its warmer than the gas fire in the lounge :lol: And yes John the pump is working fine..even more confused?

The boiler fires with both ch and hw and both of them seperately.

just checked but boiler wont fire at the mo,the pipes into it are very hot (cant touch for more than a sec) i take it wont fire coz its too hot & dont need to. Getting lots of gurgling noises from pipes/boiler as well. Ill let it cool down then report back as to when it fires ie ch,hw both...

Yes boiler does fire up as hw works,also 22mm pipes into boiler get very hot but not rads.

Not been serviced for 18 months Andy.

it's not pressurised it's an open vent, hubby balanced all the rads on sunday and it was working quite well, yesterday it decided no heat at all...maybe a blockage? I'm still very cold aargh!

Hi all, just found this website and forum, hope somebody might be able to help as im freezing to death :cry: We have a baxi back boiler, we have lived in this ex council house for 15 years and so the heating system and boiler is quite old although we don't know how old. The heating has...