- Joined
- 10 Apr 2021
- Messages
- 29
- Reaction score
- 4
- Country
hey guys, so i'm having issue with my central heating.
it's kind of a long story but here's the gist of it.
(a note on the diagram, the radiators in red have issues, i am not sure of the pipework from the top floor to bottom so i've labelled them as ?)
hallway radiator stopped working, had plumber come and have a look, he bled it and said if it still doesn't work, it needs replacing.
after a while, room 2 started becoming lukewarm, and then stopped working.
room 1 was starting to get a lukewarm at best instead of hot.
it'd been 10 years since the central heating and rads were installed, so i replaced all except bathroom and bedroom 1.
in all of them, i replaced singles with doubles (i was getting rid of 2 gas fires and this would be only source of heating).
at this point, top floor worked fine, of the bottom floor, room1 was lukewarm, room 2 and hallway remain cold.
i had a feel of the pipes on each of the downstair rads and got the following:
room1: 1 pipe hot, 1 pipe lukewarm
room2: 1 pipe hot, 1 pipe cold
hallway: 1 pipe lukewarm, 1 pipe cold.
i tried turning varying the flow from the upstairs rad only by turning the flow completely off was i able to get the hallway and room2 rads to heat up, although they were barely lukewarm.
i've tried adjusting water pressure in the boiler from 1 to 1.5,2,2.5 but no luck.
i've bled all the rads, and as soon as i open them, water comes out which indicated theres no air?
after a while, the bathroom rad stopped heating up, i'm having the bathroom redone and will be looking to get it replaced by a towel rad.
i appreciate it is impossible to diagnose these things online, but would appreciate advice on the possible issues and how i can go about investigating/eliminating possible issues.
thanks
it's kind of a long story but here's the gist of it.
(a note on the diagram, the radiators in red have issues, i am not sure of the pipework from the top floor to bottom so i've labelled them as ?)
hallway radiator stopped working, had plumber come and have a look, he bled it and said if it still doesn't work, it needs replacing.
after a while, room 2 started becoming lukewarm, and then stopped working.
room 1 was starting to get a lukewarm at best instead of hot.
it'd been 10 years since the central heating and rads were installed, so i replaced all except bathroom and bedroom 1.
in all of them, i replaced singles with doubles (i was getting rid of 2 gas fires and this would be only source of heating).
at this point, top floor worked fine, of the bottom floor, room1 was lukewarm, room 2 and hallway remain cold.
i had a feel of the pipes on each of the downstair rads and got the following:
room1: 1 pipe hot, 1 pipe lukewarm
room2: 1 pipe hot, 1 pipe cold
hallway: 1 pipe lukewarm, 1 pipe cold.
i tried turning varying the flow from the upstairs rad only by turning the flow completely off was i able to get the hallway and room2 rads to heat up, although they were barely lukewarm.
i've tried adjusting water pressure in the boiler from 1 to 1.5,2,2.5 but no luck.
i've bled all the rads, and as soon as i open them, water comes out which indicated theres no air?
after a while, the bathroom rad stopped heating up, i'm having the bathroom redone and will be looking to get it replaced by a towel rad.
i appreciate it is impossible to diagnose these things online, but would appreciate advice on the possible issues and how i can go about investigating/eliminating possible issues.
thanks