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Balancing radiators???

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  • 13-12-2019 8:33pm
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    Foggy Jew
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    The oil central heating in my house has always been a bit hit & miss. More misses than hits, to be honest. The most recent difficulty is some rads were hopping with heat, whilst others were luke warm & one stone cold. I live in a bungalow & moving from one room to another was like crossing from the Sahara to Antarctica. I managed to secure a plumber (no mean feat), and he arrived the other day & said the rads needed balancing. He was here for half an hour & when he left, all rads were scorching. I was delighted. However, now some of the previously adequate radiators are stone cold & some of the previously hot ones are only luke warm.
    Can anybody explain to me the process of balancing radiators? Can a layman (notorious for DIY disasters) do this herself? How much can I expect to pay a plumber -assuming I can actually him to come back. I’m freezing here. All advice very gratefully appreciated.

    It's the bally ballyness of it that makes it all seem so bally bally.



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    utyh2ikcq9z76b
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭utyh2ikcq9z76b


    Foggy Jew wrote: »
    The oil central heating in my house has always been a bit hit & miss. More misses than hits, to be honest. The most recent difficulty is some rads were hopping with heat, whilst others were luke warm & one stone cold. I live in a bungalow & moving from one room to another was like crossing from the Sahara to Antarctica. I managed to secure a plumber (no mean feat), and he arrived the other day & said the rads needed balancing. He was here for half an hour & when he left, all rads were scorching. I was delighted. However, now some of the previously adequate radiators are stone cold & some of the previously hot ones are only luke warm.
    Can anybody explain to me the process of balancing radiators? Can a layman (notorious for DIY disasters) do this herself? How much can I expect to pay a plumber -assuming I can actually him to come back. I’m freezing here. All advice very gratefully appreciated.

    Yeah v.easy, look at a few YouTube vids about it


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    John.G
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    Foggy Jew wrote: »
    The oil central heating in my house has always been a bit hit & miss. More misses than hits, to be honest. The most recent difficulty is some rads were hopping with heat, whilst others were luke warm & one stone cold. I live in a bungalow & moving from one room to another was like crossing from the Sahara to Antarctica. I managed to secure a plumber (no mean feat), and he arrived the other day & said the rads needed balancing. He was here for half an hour & when he left, all rads were scorching. I was delighted. However, now some of the previously adequate radiators are stone cold & some of the previously hot ones are only luke warm.
    Can anybody explain to me the process of balancing radiators? Can a layman (notorious for DIY disasters) do this herself? How much can I expect to pay a plumber -assuming I can actually him to come back. I’m freezing here. All advice very gratefully appreciated.

    I've only "had" to do one neighbours installation, an oil fired unvented system, he had a conventional 3 speed pump set on speed 2, I increased it to speed 3 (from 3M to 5M) and it made a huge difference as the coolest rads heated up reasonably well and had only to throttle in a few of the hottest ones then but remember if there is any sludge in the bottom of the rads then you may find that a rad that was lovely and warm one day could be only lukewarm the next day.


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