My heatings sh!te

[RandomJord]

So in my new house the heating upstairs hardly works, sussed out how to bleed radiators an did that so I'd say I've now got 50% function in the rads upstairs.

The rad in the master bedroom has not heat in at al, but does have water in

All the rads seem to always have air in, what can I do?

[Guy]

phone your landlord and politely request that they sort it out

do they have British Gas homecare... most do... if that is the case they can book and engineer and you can be all toasty!!

[The Doc]

Captain obvious I know, but are the valves open both ends?

[The Mighty Elvi]

Have you got thermostatic control valves on the rads?

1. Are they open
2. They can become stuck.

Unscrew them and give the little pin a light whack to get it to work.

[Wazzzer]

or take them off totally to see if the rad gets hot 

[RandomJord]

Ok, valves are open, nothing's stuck, but is there supposed to be this much air in the system?

Yesterday I bled them all totally, today, there's loads more air coming out

[Wazzzer]

air is getting in somehow or the pipes are just full up with air and it's gradually coming out. Are you refilling the water in the system to get it back up to pressure when you bleed them?

Actually if you rent the place get onto your landlord and get them to sort it ASAP, don't waste your own time trying to solve it

[dixie180]

RandomJord.If you have one rad that is cold then you more than likely have all the valves on the other rads fully open.Close all the valves on the rads (both ends),then open each side of every rad 3 turns of the valve.That way you will have the same amount of hot water going to each rad.If you require one rad to be hotter then just open the valves on that rad one more turn.The cold rad is obviously the last in the heating system and if you have the other rads full open then there is not enough hot water available to heat that rad.


Rob

[RandomJord]

Yeah..... All getting a bit technical for my liking!

Heating engineer will be found tommorow!

[dixie180]

If i was close to you i would have popped round to have a look m8.Being a plumber comes in handy  .


Rob