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Central Heating

two double raidators not heating on bottom half but top is hot

Anonymous user 28/02/2024 - 2.49 PM

system is 10 years old but had system pro flushed but still the sam. took rads of and flushed out with a water hose turning lots of ways thinking there might be sluge but water was quite clear. fitted both rads on but still the same. pressure is set to 2 bar. is my rads broken

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kelly plumbing Heating & gas

Rating: 4.9 out of 5
Weston Super Mare
don't take any advice from a builder, get the system powerflushed properly,new valves,and balanced! nuff said
Answered13 May 2012
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Paul Callaghan Builder

Rating: 5 out of 5
Romsey
Hi, Have you checked that all the rad valve's are fully open, you may have a single pipe flow and return section in your pipe layout, which would cause some of the rad's not to work, can't really see how it can be anything else if you really have drained and flushed the system. If it isn't that then maybe the flow and return in this section is very weak and bypassing the lower rad's. Wouldn't have thought it could be an air lock as this is normally in the higher rad's and as you have said, you have drained and refilled. Maybe you have a small rad, somewhere hardly used, cloakroom, utility room, with the valve's turned off, this shouldn't really cause a problem but sometime's a plummer may have cut a corner and or just had a bad day and not realised he had done it, it happen's. Hope this help's you. Kind regard's Paul
Answered9 March 2012
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