Central Heating - Rads not hot * please help :o( *

[Theunfitone]

Hi All,

I'm desperately looking for help/advice the kids are in two pairs of pj's & going to bed with hot water bottles (<-- tugging at heart strings) ;

I switched our central heating on for the first time since the winter, and noticed only 2 of 6 radiators got hot, I bled them all (very little air escaped) and now none of them have any heat !

The boiler (halstead wickes lw40ci) is seemingly working fine and is piping hot.

What I have noticed is the central heating pump (Circulating Pumps CP53) is literally blisteringly red hot, my trusty google has thrown up a couple of options :-

a) Low pressure in the system causing pump to run dry ?

b) Ceased pump

Does that sound feasible ? and if so how do I pressurise the system ?

Any help advise is sincerely appreciated

Regards,

Gary

 

[dcawkwell]

Check the pressure gauge on the boiler if it has one. Should be above one. If not top up.

Otherwise sounds like pump failure.

 

[Theunfitone]

FYI,

It was a ceased (and apparently incorrectly fitted) CH Pump, all fixed and sorted !