Every morning I am woken by my hot water system (it's that or a cold shower) and I'm hoping someone might be kind enough to help.
Basically the hot water loop makes this gargling glugging sort of noise pretty much for the duration (this appears to originate in the area shown in the picture not the boiler). This happens prior to the central heating coming on but the noise emanates from the speakers (radiators) by my bed as it is transmitted along all pipework. This did not occur until a few months ago immediately after I drained the system to replace a radiator. It would appear that 1 or both of 2 things happened; air was introduced and cannot leave (though I do bleed the radiators) or debry/sludge may have been dislodged and is causing a restriction.
A British gas man did a yearly service and of course none of it was covered by maintenance (poor design and corrosion). He did however suggest the air circulator was the problem and they are no longer recommended, that I should replace with a 'T' and move the cold feed along (see current and proposed) and of course I should pay him for a power flush.
Current
Proposed
The question is: Is it a good plan to change to the 'proposed' design then use sentinel X400 (sludge remover) X200 (boiler descaler) and X100 (inhibitor) to try to clean the system out? Has anyone come across this before?
Any advice would be much appreciated
Thanks
Basically the hot water loop makes this gargling glugging sort of noise pretty much for the duration (this appears to originate in the area shown in the picture not the boiler). This happens prior to the central heating coming on but the noise emanates from the speakers (radiators) by my bed as it is transmitted along all pipework. This did not occur until a few months ago immediately after I drained the system to replace a radiator. It would appear that 1 or both of 2 things happened; air was introduced and cannot leave (though I do bleed the radiators) or debry/sludge may have been dislodged and is causing a restriction.
A British gas man did a yearly service and of course none of it was covered by maintenance (poor design and corrosion). He did however suggest the air circulator was the problem and they are no longer recommended, that I should replace with a 'T' and move the cold feed along (see current and proposed) and of course I should pay him for a power flush.
Current
Proposed
The question is: Is it a good plan to change to the 'proposed' design then use sentinel X400 (sludge remover) X200 (boiler descaler) and X100 (inhibitor) to try to clean the system out? Has anyone come across this before?
Any advice would be much appreciated
Thanks