I am living in a 100 year old house with radiators. The ones downstairs work great, but the radiators upstairs are not working at all. When I try to bleed the radiators upstairs, air comes out for about 20 seconds, but that's it - water comes out of the downstairs radiators when I bleed them. Is there any easy way to get the upstairs radiators to work?
Radiators not working
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What system do you have?
It does sound as if your top rads are empty. Check your F/E tank first.
May be empty
It does sound as if your top rads are empty. Check your F/E tank first.
May be empty
Have you 2 tanks in the loft?
The smaller one will be the suspect one.
The smaller one will be the suspect one.
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merftums
Please tell us more about your system, for example:
How is the water heated?
What [kind of] boiler do you have?
Is the system it pumped?
Is it vented?
Do you have stored hot water?
Do you have any thermostats?
Is it possible that you have more than one heating zone in the house, with valves controlling the flow of water to different sets of radiators?
Do you have more than one room thermostat?
In the meantime, have you tried shutting off all of the downstairs radiators to see if that forces water through the upstairs ones?
Please tell us more about your system, for example:
How is the water heated?
What [kind of] boiler do you have?
Is the system it pumped?
Is it vented?
Do you have stored hot water?
Do you have any thermostats?
Is it possible that you have more than one heating zone in the house, with valves controlling the flow of water to different sets of radiators?
Do you have more than one room thermostat?
In the meantime, have you tried shutting off all of the downstairs radiators to see if that forces water through the upstairs ones?
>How is the water heated?
there is a boiler.
>What [kind of] boiler do you have?
i have no idea. it's in a part of the basement that isn't accessible very easily.
>Is the system it pumped?
i don't know what this means.
>Is it vented?
no clue
>Do you have stored hot water?
???
>Do you have any thermostats?
there is one downstairs on the main floor
>Is it possible that you have more than one heating zone in the house, >with valves controlling the flow of water to different sets of radiators?
what would these valves look like?
>Do you have more than one room thermostat?
no.
>In the meantime, have you tried shutting off all of the downstairs >radiators to see if that forces water through the upstairs ones?
How do you shut them off. Besides the valve for bleeding the radiators, there is a circular knob that turns - which direction is off?
there is a boiler.
>What [kind of] boiler do you have?
i have no idea. it's in a part of the basement that isn't accessible very easily.
>Is the system it pumped?
i don't know what this means.
>Is it vented?
no clue
>Do you have stored hot water?
???
>Do you have any thermostats?
there is one downstairs on the main floor
>Is it possible that you have more than one heating zone in the house, >with valves controlling the flow of water to different sets of radiators?
what would these valves look like?
>Do you have more than one room thermostat?
no.
>In the meantime, have you tried shutting off all of the downstairs >radiators to see if that forces water through the upstairs ones?
How do you shut them off. Besides the valve for bleeding the radiators, there is a circular knob that turns - which direction is off?
Time to callout a heating engineer.
merftums said:
The knob turns clockwise for off, and anticlockwise for on.
However merftums, Gasman1015 is quite right. The amount of knowledge that we would need to convey to you before even starting to fault find this system is impractically large. The only recommendation I can make is that you summon a skilled engineer to inspect your system and diagnose the problem.
Best of luck.
S.
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