Hi all,
Issue is with a Potterton Netaheat 6/10 boiler.
Everything was working fine until recent redecoration of small room, removed rad to decorate, replaced rad, and after bleeding rad pump started to make a very unusual sound, even though the central heating was turned off, but hot water was on, (due to timer).
Sound can only be explained as though the pump is not running at full speed. A rather difficult sound to
I asked my brother (who is a lot older than myself and hence had much more experience than myself) what he thought it could be, and he said that the pump should not be running if I have just the hot water on.
But this is how it has been for the last number of years.
This is the second pump to be fitted and is around 6 years old.
It just seems unusual after he said this to me that it does seem unusual for the pump to be running for both hot water and central heating.
I may obviously be completely wrong and this may well be how the boiler operates.
The pump is very hot to touch, also the pipe directly above the pump and below it is also very hot, but again this is not unusual.
There are two on/off switched below the wiring box, one is for the immersion, and the other (someone has written on it) "Central Heating 240v 3 Amp only"
If both H/W and C/H is on and this switch is turned off everything goes off.
I have tried it with H/W only and switched it off, again everything goes off.
The same with C/H.
I wouldn't say it was loud but you couldn't sleep in the same room as it.
The wife was the first to notice it, and it was as soon as we refilled the rad and bled it, that's when the noise started.
I have checked all the other rads in the house and made sure water is coming out and no air.
Would anyone have an idea they could throw at me,..... could this have been wired wrong from day one, or is it just coincidence that i replace one rad and this god awful sound comes from the pump.
Or is this a much simpler problem, and I am making a mountain out of a molehill.
any ideas would be very much appreciated as we are running off of the immersion at the moment.
Thanks
sadsack
Issue is with a Potterton Netaheat 6/10 boiler.
Everything was working fine until recent redecoration of small room, removed rad to decorate, replaced rad, and after bleeding rad pump started to make a very unusual sound, even though the central heating was turned off, but hot water was on, (due to timer).
Sound can only be explained as though the pump is not running at full speed. A rather difficult sound to
I asked my brother (who is a lot older than myself and hence had much more experience than myself) what he thought it could be, and he said that the pump should not be running if I have just the hot water on.
But this is how it has been for the last number of years.
This is the second pump to be fitted and is around 6 years old.
It just seems unusual after he said this to me that it does seem unusual for the pump to be running for both hot water and central heating.
I may obviously be completely wrong and this may well be how the boiler operates.
The pump is very hot to touch, also the pipe directly above the pump and below it is also very hot, but again this is not unusual.
There are two on/off switched below the wiring box, one is for the immersion, and the other (someone has written on it) "Central Heating 240v 3 Amp only"
If both H/W and C/H is on and this switch is turned off everything goes off.
I have tried it with H/W only and switched it off, again everything goes off.
The same with C/H.
I wouldn't say it was loud but you couldn't sleep in the same room as it.
The wife was the first to notice it, and it was as soon as we refilled the rad and bled it, that's when the noise started.
I have checked all the other rads in the house and made sure water is coming out and no air.
Would anyone have an idea they could throw at me,..... could this have been wired wrong from day one, or is it just coincidence that i replace one rad and this god awful sound comes from the pump.
Or is this a much simpler problem, and I am making a mountain out of a molehill.
any ideas would be very much appreciated as we are running off of the immersion at the moment.
Thanks
sadsack