Hi, we have bought an old house which as a gas fire with a back boiler for the central heating system and water. the problem is that the boiler only works with four of the ten radiators in the house. We have bleed the sytem and do intend to change it all out to a combi boiler and gas fire but cannot until the new year. At the moment we are in a freezing house with only minimum heating.
Does anybody know if there are valves thatt can shut down half the central heating system on these boilers or is there anything else we can do to try and encourage it to heat further radiators?
Ta. Susan
2007-12-14 01:52:13 · 5 answers · asked by susanparker.mac@btinternet.com 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
Or, you could wait untill a heating engineer has a look at the question! Try turning the hot rads off, if that makes others come hot, turn those off too, untill they are all hot, or you have less that are cold, then, check if the rads have thermostatic valves (will have numbers around them), if so, remove the head, (usually a ring under the head), tap the pin beneath the head, then refit the head. If heating is only on upstairs, the pump may be down, if only downstairs are hot, the upstairs want bleeding (venting). This is as much as can be given with the information provided.
2007-12-14 06:41:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Trace the pipes that leave the boiler. Make sure they are all turned on, then bleed the offending radiators again. They are usually in zones. Make sure the pumps for each zone are operating. If not, check breakers for each pump. Hope this helps. If youy have allready picked the new boiler, call the new contractor and ask him to check your current system, just to tide you over until the new retrofit. The worst he can say is no, but if he wants your business for the new system, he will probably help.
2007-12-14 02:14:43 · answer #2 · answered by handyrandy 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
without calling a plumber the only thing you can try is balancing the system. If you slightly turn down the valves on the radiators that are hot, the flow into them will reduce a little, and the flow past to the others will increase. This is trial and error and will take a while to feel differences and guage if you are "getting warmer" or not.
2007-12-14 02:07:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can either suffer in silence, asking strangers to help you with a problem that nobody can possibly diagnose correctly without seeing the device in question, or, you can contact a professional heating system repairman in your local phonebook (it's their job to do emergency service), or buy portable electric (safer than fuel-based) heaters and/or blankets and wait until the "new year" (January 1? August? December 2008?).
P.S. Welcome to this website! If you want to do well, here, you need to ask complete questions: "Please help" is not a question, and many people ignore such questions. Also, nobody is going to care, much less believe, what your alleged name is, so it's pointless to use any. Good luck, and stay frosty - - I mean, toasty!!! ;)
2007-12-14 02:45:23 · answer #4 · answered by skaizun 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
sounds like the pump isnt strong enough you can turn the pump up a notch see if that helps otherwise shut down the ones you dont need by the valves then the others will become hotter
2007-12-14 02:05:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋