No hot water after bleeding radiators

[jess900]

Hi, firstly I would like to apologize in advance as I have limited knowledge in this area and so some things I may not know or understand.

I have a boilermate Gledhill upstairs and an logic ideal boiler downstairs. We bled all the radiators today and realised we did not have any hot water. In addition, the boilermate Gledhill that is upstairs keeps making noises on the right hand side. The radiators are also not heating up either.

I have tried reading online and it usually talks about pressure gauge and flowing pipes but I cannot find any pressure gauge for the boilers. I think I need to do something with the upstairs boiler as that is the one that is making the noises but my logic boiler's temperature is only 29 degree celcius when it should be above 70 degree celcius at least.

Please any help is appreciated!

 

[CBW]

Post a pic of Ideal boiler and boiler mate, to include any pipes under the Ideal boiler and the wiring cupboard, we can then tell you how to re-pressurise.

If your unable to do that, you’re looking for a braided hose and 2 valves with x1 or x2 black (usually) coloured handles.

 

[jess900]

Post a pic of Ideal boiler and boiler mate, to include any pipes under the Ideal boiler and the wiring cupboard, we can then tell you how to re-pressurise.

Thanks for the reply and here are the pictures

 

[CBW]

The one of the Ideal doesn’t help much, it looks copied from Mr central heatings website. Either way I’ve edited my reply, you need to look for the filling loop.

 

[jess900]

Sorry, here are more pictures of the ideal boiler

The braided hose, would I be checking it for ideal or boilermate?

 

[terryplumb]

Look near the boiler mate ,pics of above it may help

 

[jess900]

This is the top of the boilermate, sorry but I cannot find any hose or tube looking things

 

[CBW]

Try above the boiler. Your looking for something that resembles one of the following:

 

[terryplumb]

Your boiler may not be pressurised. Is it fed from a small tank in the loft ?

 

[jess900]

I do not have a small tank in the loft but the boilermate helps to maintain the pressure of the hot water, it's the thermal storage system

 

[ianmcd]

your system does not have a filling loop , your last pic is the fill and expansion tank that fills your system, I have marked in blue the cold water filling pipe, follow this pipe and see if there are any valves on it and if there is make sure they are open, the feed that I have marked in red is a common place for these to block.

 

[jess900]

your system does not have a filling loop , your last pic is the fill and expansion tank that fills your system, I have marked in blue the cold water filling pipe, follow this pipe and see if there are any valves on it and if there is make sure they are open, the feed that I have marked in red is a common place for these to block.

Thank you for the marking in the picture. From the blue arrow, the second picture with the pipe with the green lid leads into the boiler and the second picture with that blue arrowed pipe leads into the floor. I am assuming I need to turn either left or right with the thing in the second picture and then doing something afterwards?

 

[ianmcd]

Forget the green valve that is a blending valve, the brass valve in your second pic make sure that is open, turn anti-clockwise till it stops the turn it back in 1/4 turn

 

[jess900]

Forget the green valve that is a blending valve, the brass valve in your second pic make sure that is open, turn anti-clockwise till it stops the turn it back in 1/4 turn

Thank you for the reply, sorry if this is a stupid question but do I need to turn off all the boilers before attempting this? Also, how long would I leave the valve open for after fully turning it clockwise? Apologies again as this area is not my expertise (as you can probably tell!) What do you mean turn it back 1/4 turn?

 

[CBW]

1/4 turn as in not a full turn, not half turn just a quarter , helps for future maintenance.