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softus, Agile, Thanks for your help. Not being willing to pay for to get this fixed isn't the problem. We've had no heating for three weeks and until I came onto this forum my issue was the differing opinions. As you say my biggest problem was getting someone to spend time trying to find the...

Oooops hadn't thought of that. In fact today what little heat is getting through is coming out of 1 rad on the middle level with nothing on top level, so I guess its either more than one block or its moving. would this be a correct assumption?

Thanks for the tips. I'll try taking the radiators off. I was wondering, if I shut off all of the radiators on two out of the three levels, should that allow me to identify on which level the blockage is, or are the pipework runs much more complicated than that?

sorry hit submit too early. :oops: If it is a blockage is a power flush the only way to clear? Only the BG guy seemed to think that would work and to be honest he was more interested in getting us to replace the boiler.

He put the sludge remover in when more than half of the radiators were working to try to clean out the bits it could reach. We've also had the pump off and the section that wasn't replaced was clogged a bit but that was cleaned out and it seems to be ok now.

In answer to your first question; haven't tried that, is it something I can do myself? To number 2, can you imagine Christmas, cold weather, kids and a mum. Yep it has crossed my mind :)

Fitz, sorry for ebing dumb, but don't know what gaging the hot water circs down is. can you explain? :oops:

Chris, Thanks (I think!!), I figure that I'll have to put in some serious work to get things completely sorted but if I can even get things back to where they were until the weather gets better it would be a big step forward. I've bled the system using the methods you and others like Allan...

MY system is supposed to heat 15 radiators over 3 floors and has never been fantastic since we moved in but did manage to heat up at least half of the rads. Recently more of the rads stopped working and a plumber/ heating engineer suggested a block due to sludge. He started by shutting off...