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Darren Thornton
Hi All,
I was wondering whether anyone could provide me with some support and guidance regarding a problem that I have with my heating system.
i recently moved into a new house which was in need of refurbishing from top to bottom!
It's a three bedroom semi detached and therefore I decided to start the renovations in the first floor rear bedroom. The room needed plastering so I turned off the rad valves and unscrewed the nuts from the rad tails and emptied the contents of the rad in a bucket.
I left the valves in place until it was time to change the radiator once the plaster had dried. Before installing the radiator, I moved on to stripping the front first floor bedroom and again took out the radiator. This room also needed plastering.
two weeks ago this room was plastered and I spent this week painting it. I went out today and bought a 500mm in height radiator by 1000mm in length radiator. As it was longer than the old radiator I had to move the pipes and installed two 15mm isolation valves underneath the floor boards before plumbing in the 15mm pipe work.
After tightening up all the joints on the rad and the isolation valves, I turned the water back on to fill the system back up.
Thankfullu there was no leaks.....so far! But the water will now not heat via the combi boiler system. A red light is flashing constantly. I've switched it off at the mains and turned it back on again but still no joy!
i am wondering whether it's to do with the fact that I still haven't installed a radiator in the other bedroom upstairs. Will this cause problems because the water won't circulate around the full system,
could it be that I've not put the isolation valves on the right way and side of the rads. I was unsure what side the flow and return pipes were so I put the flow on the left hand side and then return coming out of the the thermostat
Or could it be an airlock, the system has been bled bar the back bedoom where there's no rad and just closed valves. Sorry to ask ask do many questions, regards Daz
I was wondering whether anyone could provide me with some support and guidance regarding a problem that I have with my heating system.
i recently moved into a new house which was in need of refurbishing from top to bottom!
It's a three bedroom semi detached and therefore I decided to start the renovations in the first floor rear bedroom. The room needed plastering so I turned off the rad valves and unscrewed the nuts from the rad tails and emptied the contents of the rad in a bucket.
I left the valves in place until it was time to change the radiator once the plaster had dried. Before installing the radiator, I moved on to stripping the front first floor bedroom and again took out the radiator. This room also needed plastering.
two weeks ago this room was plastered and I spent this week painting it. I went out today and bought a 500mm in height radiator by 1000mm in length radiator. As it was longer than the old radiator I had to move the pipes and installed two 15mm isolation valves underneath the floor boards before plumbing in the 15mm pipe work.
After tightening up all the joints on the rad and the isolation valves, I turned the water back on to fill the system back up.
Thankfullu there was no leaks.....so far! But the water will now not heat via the combi boiler system. A red light is flashing constantly. I've switched it off at the mains and turned it back on again but still no joy!
i am wondering whether it's to do with the fact that I still haven't installed a radiator in the other bedroom upstairs. Will this cause problems because the water won't circulate around the full system,
could it be that I've not put the isolation valves on the right way and side of the rads. I was unsure what side the flow and return pipes were so I put the flow on the left hand side and then return coming out of the the thermostat
Or could it be an airlock, the system has been bled bar the back bedoom where there's no rad and just closed valves. Sorry to ask ask do many questions, regards Daz
