Guys,
I have a Vokera compact 28 boiler in my 4 bed detached house, we've recently extended the house to give us the 4th bedroom.
Upstairs all the rads are luke warm at best even with the flow valve wide open, downstairs the rads are all very hot to touch.
The exception is the rad in the extension upstairs which gets as hot as the ones downstairs.
I deduce from this that the extension is on a new feed independant from the old pipework feeding the old part of the house downstairs and up.
I've even tried closing off all the rads downstairs in the old part of the house to try and get the hot water up to the luke warm rads upstairs but it made no difference whatsoever.
I've had a go at balancing the system but this seems pointless if I can get the upstairs rads hot with the downstairs 'old' rads off (i'm assuming the new rads downstairs are on the same circuit as the new rad up)
Any ideas what is causing this too happen - my poor little lads room is freezing yet downstairs the house is toast.
Please help me out here as this is driving me mad now - I guess i'll need to call a plumber out unless anyone can trhrow any light on this one....is the boiler struggling to pump the water ? (if so why is the new upstairs rad ok ?)
The boiler is about 6years old and the rads upstairs about 3 years old.
Many thanks in advance,
Mike.
I have a Vokera compact 28 boiler in my 4 bed detached house, we've recently extended the house to give us the 4th bedroom.
Upstairs all the rads are luke warm at best even with the flow valve wide open, downstairs the rads are all very hot to touch.
The exception is the rad in the extension upstairs which gets as hot as the ones downstairs.
I deduce from this that the extension is on a new feed independant from the old pipework feeding the old part of the house downstairs and up.
I've even tried closing off all the rads downstairs in the old part of the house to try and get the hot water up to the luke warm rads upstairs but it made no difference whatsoever.
I've had a go at balancing the system but this seems pointless if I can get the upstairs rads hot with the downstairs 'old' rads off (i'm assuming the new rads downstairs are on the same circuit as the new rad up)
Any ideas what is causing this too happen - my poor little lads room is freezing yet downstairs the house is toast.
Please help me out here as this is driving me mad now - I guess i'll need to call a plumber out unless anyone can trhrow any light on this one....is the boiler struggling to pump the water ? (if so why is the new upstairs rad ok ?)
The boiler is about 6years old and the rads upstairs about 3 years old.
Many thanks in advance,
Mike.