hello everyone im a newbie on here, i have a problem with my central heating in my house. i bought this house 2 months ago and these 2 to 3 weeks i noticed that some banging noise in my system near the cylinder inside the airing cupboard then water is coming out from the vent pipe which sticks out on my roof and make my front garden a pond every night.
i climbed up to the loft and had a look myself and found that the padding stuff of the smaller water tank felt into the water and pressed the ball valve thingy down , so the water from the bigger tank was kept filling up the small one. solved that myself and thought the jobs done.
however the diarrohea banging noise happened again that night and water still pouring to my front garden from the pipe up there so i climbed up and checked again. i saw a swan-neck shaped pipe coming up from the cylinder was actually pumping the hot water into the small tank( thats why the padding stuff felt into the small tank), but it wont happen until the central heating was turned on for 2 to 3 hours.
some of my friends said it could have been caused by the wrong pressure in somewhere i dont know. i got a CH man to see it this morning. what he told me was the thermostat of the immersion heater which located on top of the cylinder has gone, and caused the boiler constantly burning and the hot water being pumped up to the small water tank in the loft. i rang an electrician in southampton who will do it on Monday for around 70 including replace the wire connects to the switch.
is that any expert here have any opinion please? thanks
one more question please, my boiler is Potterton Kingfisher RS50 standing on the gound with no case covering. does anyone know if its a condensing boiler or conventional or whatever? cos i want to join those central heating cover plans, thanks again everyone
i climbed up to the loft and had a look myself and found that the padding stuff of the smaller water tank felt into the water and pressed the ball valve thingy down , so the water from the bigger tank was kept filling up the small one. solved that myself and thought the jobs done.
however the diarrohea banging noise happened again that night and water still pouring to my front garden from the pipe up there so i climbed up and checked again. i saw a swan-neck shaped pipe coming up from the cylinder was actually pumping the hot water into the small tank( thats why the padding stuff felt into the small tank), but it wont happen until the central heating was turned on for 2 to 3 hours.
some of my friends said it could have been caused by the wrong pressure in somewhere i dont know. i got a CH man to see it this morning. what he told me was the thermostat of the immersion heater which located on top of the cylinder has gone, and caused the boiler constantly burning and the hot water being pumped up to the small water tank in the loft. i rang an electrician in southampton who will do it on Monday for around 70 including replace the wire connects to the switch.
is that any expert here have any opinion please? thanks
one more question please, my boiler is Potterton Kingfisher RS50 standing on the gound with no case covering. does anyone know if its a condensing boiler or conventional or whatever? cos i want to join those central heating cover plans, thanks again everyone
