how long should it take to get all the heater's on my wall in a ground floor flat to full tempriture i have five heater's in my flat but i think it take's to long to do. my friend said it take's two minuet's but in my flat it take's 25 and i have beld them.
2006-09-27 12:22:05 · 10 answers · asked by STEVEN K 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
25 minuets would be about right, 2 minuets sounds a bit quick. Depends what temperature you flat is, needs time to heat the water, then the pipes and radiators, then the air in you flat. Why have you got centeral heating on at this time of the year??? You not a pansie are you , i just put a jumper on if it gets cold it helps with gloabal warming if we use less gas.
ps: pipes do not need to be same width, i have installed central heating and used different pipe widths and my system is pucka!!
2006-09-27 12:32:41 · answer #1 · answered by Jabba_da_hut_07 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
first you seem to have a lot of radiators for one ground floor flat. you should never need full temp. The secret is this. The radiater in the hall has to be turned the lowest temperature. ...because opening and closing the door will make it come on. Therefore, the other radiators will respond, and you can turn the valve up or down to suit your needs. We used to have our hall low, so it sent signals to the others to be warm. The bedreooms on ambient, i.e low and the living room on higher just for a while. you learn to adjust, but bleeding them is important, also, for a tenner or so you can get stuff to pour into your header tank, water tank, which is anti rust...o.k. Your friend is wrong. If you start a central heating system, it can take up to one hour for all radiatiors to feel hot to the touch, and the rooms will not feel the warmth for at least half an hour after that, at which time you can mess about, and get the thermo valves to the required setting, and always mininum is best, especially if you have double glazing and draught proof door. Do not forget, when you cook your evening meal in your oven that affects the temp of the hous too, especially if it is near the hall radiator, i.e. as in a semi. detatched lay out type house.
2006-09-27 15:06:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Depends on the size of your flat, radiators, boiler and pipe work. Another consideration is if your heating stored hot water at the same time.
Your friends will take less time than yours if his is an un -vented system and yours is an open vented type. I would say that a well designed sytem could be expected to be running at the desired temperature with half an hour maximum from cold. The rooms may take a little longer to reach temperature dependant on the ambient air temperature when it is turned on and the external temperature.
2006-09-27 12:34:44 · answer #3 · answered by philipscottbrooks 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If the system has been designed properly, the rooms should reach the desired tempera tire within one hour. How fast the radiators warm up depends on water capacity of the system, the operating head, (pressure), of the pump, the total water content of the system and the type of pipework, i.e whether it is a small bore, (15mm pipework), or microbore, (8/10mm pipework). There is no hard and fast rule as to how fast a radiator should heat up, but I would be expecting it to start to get warm within five to ten minutes. The final temperature will vary according to how warm the room is.
2006-09-28 00:00:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on this size of the heater and the system.
Are you talking about 25 minutes to warm the heaters or warm the rooms?
25 minutes for the rooms to come up to temperature doesn't sound so bad. 25 minutes for the heaters to warm up sounds like a duff circulating pump / restriction in the system.
Get in a reputable plumber to give the system the once over.
2006-09-27 12:34:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anchor Cranker 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
depends on state of your boiler and pipes to them. If it is all clear and new it could be 10 mins or so. If ; like most of the world; they are a bit clogged it could take up to half hour. dont worry to much, mine take about 20 mins. if you want to improve it you'll have to try flushing all radiators and pipes out. also remove rads from walls to do this fully. bit of a job though.
i also believe you can buy stuff to put in system and run for a while, then flush and refill.
good luck and warm up
2006-09-27 12:33:46 · answer #6 · answered by Bacardi1 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like your pump might be stuck, check the pipe work either side of the pump if the pipes before the pump are very hot and the pipes after the pump aren't then it's the pump.
You can sometime free them by taking out the big screw/plug in the middle of the pump and then putting a screwdriver in to the pump and spin it.
This is if you have your own boiler in your flat and your not off a communal boiler as you say its a flat
2006-09-27 12:32:36 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
your talking boiler and radiator pipes i assume? It all varies but 25 minutes is great....so dont worry one single minute anymore, your friend is a moron... the only way you can get heat in 2 minutes is if you have hot air forced type furnace..or electric..
2006-10-01 05:01:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do the heaters warm from top to bottom? - You may have sediment problems but the best advice would be if you are not a engineer, get in someone who is and never mess with gas!
2006-09-27 12:48:12 · answer #9 · answered by william john l 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
10 MINS MAX CHECK THE PIPES THEY ALL NEED TO BE THE SAME WIDTH (SOUNDS STUPID) FOR THE PRESSURE TO FLOW.CHECK THE VALVES THEY MAY BE STUCK HALF WAY CLOSED.
2006-09-27 12:31:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋