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My dad has rented this property for over 8 years and has had no end of trouble with the central heating at the property. The landlord has dragged his heels quite a bit and has been difficult at times to get him to sort the issues out. He's sent several engineers around over the years, had radiators reluctantly changed and eventually after much hassling agreed to pay for a power flush. That was done earlier this year if memory serves and things did seem to improve temporarily. Then the warmer weather came and the CH wasn't on again as much. As the colder weather has started to appear again now my dad has turned his heating back on and we're back to square one. The radiators seem to heat up at least part way, I'd say about a quarter to a half way horizontally (i.e. top or bottom half heats). He's always had one really problematic radiator (which a friend of his who has some experience, swears has been installed the wrong way round??) in the living room which just never seems to heat well at all. The system is controlled by a digital thermostat programmer (also by Valliant) on the wall in the dining room. I don't know if it's of relevance but there are 6 radiators in the house in total. He has no problem with the hot water. The programmer seems to be working fine, it does trigger the CH on and off at the specified times. I should also mention that the pressure in my opinion, seems to be too high. The needle basically sits at the max of the grey bar, just before the red section. If it's not around there, the radiators don't seem to heat at all. Yet my mum has the same boiler (or variant with timer built in) and the pressure is much lower.
My dad is 70 next year and he's not from an engineering background and isn't great with technology. So I've come here on his behalf hoping I can get some advice on any steps I can take to try and troubleshoot this problem once and for all.
A little about myself. I'm no plumber. I am however competent with a digital multimeter and digital Megger as I work on the railway as a signalling test engineer.
I would really appreciate your feedback on this. I look forward to receiving your responses.
Many thanks.
My dad has rented this property for over 8 years and has had no end of trouble with the central heating at the property. The landlord has dragged his heels quite a bit and has been difficult at times to get him to sort the issues out. He's sent several engineers around over the years, had radiators reluctantly changed and eventually after much hassling agreed to pay for a power flush. That was done earlier this year if memory serves and things did seem to improve temporarily. Then the warmer weather came and the CH wasn't on again as much. As the colder weather has started to appear again now my dad has turned his heating back on and we're back to square one. The radiators seem to heat up at least part way, I'd say about a quarter to a half way horizontally (i.e. top or bottom half heats). He's always had one really problematic radiator (which a friend of his who has some experience, swears has been installed the wrong way round??) in the living room which just never seems to heat well at all. The system is controlled by a digital thermostat programmer (also by Valliant) on the wall in the dining room. I don't know if it's of relevance but there are 6 radiators in the house in total. He has no problem with the hot water. The programmer seems to be working fine, it does trigger the CH on and off at the specified times. I should also mention that the pressure in my opinion, seems to be too high. The needle basically sits at the max of the grey bar, just before the red section. If it's not around there, the radiators don't seem to heat at all. Yet my mum has the same boiler (or variant with timer built in) and the pressure is much lower.
My dad is 70 next year and he's not from an engineering background and isn't great with technology. So I've come here on his behalf hoping I can get some advice on any steps I can take to try and troubleshoot this problem once and for all.
A little about myself. I'm no plumber. I am however competent with a digital multimeter and digital Megger as I work on the railway as a signalling test engineer.
I would really appreciate your feedback on this. I look forward to receiving your responses.
Many thanks.
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