Hi
I just got home to some alarming problems with my central heating. Can anyone point me in the right direction for what has happened to it?
Symptoms:
- very noisy clunking and gushing noises from upstairs radiators (hot)
- silent and cold downstairs radiators
- slight smell of burning. Electrical maybe?
- Expansion tank empty. The overflow pipe that goes into the tank shooting out steam very fast. Condensation and dripping water all over the attic (I guess it has been doing this for hours). All a bit hard to see with all that steam!
- After I turned off heating and hot water the steam and noise gradually stopped and the expansion tank filled as normal.
What came before:
- Pump becoming noisy. I was meaning to replace it...
- Other half put heating on full-time I think
Any advice would be great!
Thanks
I just got home to some alarming problems with my central heating. Can anyone point me in the right direction for what has happened to it?
Symptoms:
- very noisy clunking and gushing noises from upstairs radiators (hot)
- silent and cold downstairs radiators
- slight smell of burning. Electrical maybe?
- Expansion tank empty. The overflow pipe that goes into the tank shooting out steam very fast. Condensation and dripping water all over the attic (I guess it has been doing this for hours). All a bit hard to see with all that steam!
- After I turned off heating and hot water the steam and noise gradually stopped and the expansion tank filled as normal.
What came before:
- Pump becoming noisy. I was meaning to replace it...
- Other half put heating on full-time I think
Any advice would be great!
Thanks