2007-01-20 06:20:51 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
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2007-01-20 06:29:31 · answer #1 · answered by NIGEL R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like (as everyone else has said) an air-lock in the pipes between the boiler and the heat-exchanging coil in the hot-water cylinder. However, contrary to what you've been told, turning the taps on and off won't fix it. If you don't have an airlock valve in your system, the only way to get rid of an air lock in the heat exchanger is to force it out. You can do this if you've got a drain point or stopcock somewhere in the system. Presumeably you have, or you would not have been able to drain the system in the first place ! The closer the drainpoint is to the hot water cyclinder the better. Here's what to do - basically you're back-filling the system under pressure to dislodge the trapped air. 1: Turn the boiler off. 2: Turn off all the radiators at both ends (if possible). 3: Turn off the stopcock from the header tank to the boiler (the small water tank - normally 4 gallons or so). 4: Drain off approximately 1/2 of the water from the drain-point, but be sure not to drain the system completely. 5: Connect a hosepipe to the drain point stopcock and to the mains pressure cold water tap. 6: Turn the tap on SLOWLY to about 1/2 turn to just pressurise the hose. 7: SLOWLY open the drain point until you can hear water flowing in the hosepipe or into the pipework. 8: If you can hear bubbles moving in the pipework then you've moved the air - turn off the drain point and then the cold tap. 9: If you don't hear bubble moving after about 20s turn them both off anyway, remove the hose from the cold tap and half drain the system again. DONT LEAVE THE TAP RUNNING FOR MORE THAN 20s otherwise you'll overfill the system and you'll probably end up with water overflowing the expansion tank ! If it doesn't work straight away, try it a few times, each time increasing the pressure from the tap. Eventually the air will move. Once it starts it normally all goes in one go with a bang ! Don't forget to turn the radiators back on again !
2016-05-24 01:12:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The fumes put our carbon monoxide gases. It just does not get any deadlier.
You are placing all occupants of the house in extreme danger. I've worked in the HVAC industry and never heard of a heatng system operating on diesel fuel, at least not in the USA.
2007-01-20 06:42:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If your boiler breaths in too many fumes it could feel light headed but dont let your radiators breath in the fumes. Inhaling diesel fumes is the top reason for death in radiators under 20 years old along with glue sniffing?!
2007-01-20 06:34:43 · answer #4 · answered by Banny Grasher 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sounds like you have been sniffing the diesel. Most heating systems use gas or electricity, what planet are you on?
Get your head out of there!
2007-01-20 07:24:24 · answer #5 · answered by Patricia R 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are running your central heating on diesel?
2007-01-20 06:28:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
For Patricia or whoever said most homes are heated by gas or electricity, I can't wait for the fuel oil guy's next delivery to tell him he's been pumping the wrong stuff into my 250-gallon tank since 1997.
2007-01-21 17:42:11 · answer #7 · answered by d21212 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Any fumes from your central heating is dangerous switch it off now and get it checked straight away
Please don't take any chances
2007-01-24 02:25:04 · answer #8 · answered by Black Orchid 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
why are diesel fumes coming from your heating. do you mean carbon dioxide fumes?
2007-01-20 09:13:23 · answer #9 · answered by pups 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes - especialy inside the house!
2007-01-20 09:15:39 · answer #10 · answered by pete h 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋