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radiators warm only at the edges....

  • 22-10-2012 11:11am
    #1
    chprt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 573 ✭✭✭


    Lads

    Turned the heating on recently and the heat up fine... but only around the edges of the rads, the rest of the rads are freezing, a bit stange but true.

    Its on all the rads in the house, I turned them all off, and turned thermostat up full and turned boiler on and then turned on one rad at a time hoping to push the heat around, but nothing...

    Someone suggested that I might need to get the rads flushed, but with the house only being 8 years old I thought this might not be the problem, and at €400 to get it done I would rather try a few suggestions first...


    ... anyone got any ideas at all?

    thanks paddy

    www.onlinemathsgrinds.ie



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  • #2
    HomeRepair.ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13 ✭HomeRepair.ie


    Hi Paddy

    There could be air trapped in the radiators.
    Turn off the central heating. Then using a radiatir bleed key( if you have not got one, you can get one in a hardware store) open the air vent at one end of the top of the radiator. Air should start to hiss out.
    When water appears, close the vent. Hold a rag under the vent to catch the water escaping from it. Turn the heasting on again.


  • #3
    chprt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 573 ✭✭✭chprt


    thanks homerepair


    I should have said, this was the first thing i tried no air at all, water started coming out straight away.

    cheers Paddy

    www.onlinemathsgrinds.ie



  • #4
    Zulu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,965 ✭✭✭✭Zulu


    exactly as posted - this isn't strange at all! Airpockets need to be bled.


  • #5
    Zulu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,965 ✭✭✭✭Zulu


    oooh, well that is strange then.


  • #6
    HomeRepair.ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13 ✭HomeRepair.ie


    Have you checked that the circulating pump is working?


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  • #7
    HomeRepair.ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13 ✭HomeRepair.ie


    I have asked a plumber friend about this question.

    He says it could be one of two things;

    As you have suggested there could be silt in the radiators and this could happen after 8 Years.

    Or your circulating pump may not working properly.:(


  • #8
    chprt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 573 ✭✭✭chprt


    homerepair.ie


    many thanks for your help, I have a plumber mate going out to have a look at it and see what he can do


    thanks again for the advice


    paddy

    www.onlinemathsgrinds.ie



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