Hi all. After some expert opinions/advice please.
We moved into our house 6 months ago. Now winter is coming, we've realised that 4 of our 8 downstairs radiators aren't heating up at all. All 8 upstairs work fine.
My first suspicion is blockages in the microbore pipes, as we had this in our previous house which was also built in 2000. Have tried Sentinel x800 but no use. Have used a footpump on the pipes and cleared out some sludge, but not enough apparently.
I can see the previous owner (now deceased) obviously had some work done as there have been holes cut out of the walls by the blocked rads, and badly filled back in. We wondered if we maybe had a blocked manifold, but hard to tell as we have chipboard.
Any thoughts/suggestions would be appreciated. I'm more than happy to pay for an engineer, but the couple we've had out to date just looked a bit confused and didn't fancy the job.
We moved into our house 6 months ago. Now winter is coming, we've realised that 4 of our 8 downstairs radiators aren't heating up at all. All 8 upstairs work fine.
My first suspicion is blockages in the microbore pipes, as we had this in our previous house which was also built in 2000. Have tried Sentinel x800 but no use. Have used a footpump on the pipes and cleared out some sludge, but not enough apparently.
I can see the previous owner (now deceased) obviously had some work done as there have been holes cut out of the walls by the blocked rads, and badly filled back in. We wondered if we maybe had a blocked manifold, but hard to tell as we have chipboard.
Any thoughts/suggestions would be appreciated. I'm more than happy to pay for an engineer, but the couple we've had out to date just looked a bit confused and didn't fancy the job.