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jimmi5bellies

jimmi5bellies

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Yea, was as warm as toast last night, had central heating put in yesterday. Got up this morning to boost it for 1 hour and i have a red flashing light on the boiler. Cant ignite the damn thing :confused: .... will have to wait till later for the electricians to do it when they come around to put in the thermostat on the wall and strip out the old economy 7 heating wires.

Got to give the lads their dues, the team i had were lovely, polite and respected my home.
 
Check the pressure in the system, if it has a small leak it will lose pressure and shut down to protect the pump
 
Hope it's all under control soon. We had a few days without central heating after our boiler had been serviced by the most annoying BG bod I have ever had the misfortune to encounter. Then we got an independant guy to come and look at it and he put right what the BG guy had messed up and all is warm as toast again in Whispland. However did we cope in the olden days before central heating when we had frost on the insides of the bedroom windows?
 
entwisi said:
Check the pressure in the system, if it has a small leak it will lose pressure and shut down to protect the pump
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Hi Ian
The electricains are upstairs now in Debbies flat, ill collar one when i hear him coming down the stairs :D
Trust me to get the iffy boiler, lol.
 
Ian
Just had the electricain come and check it, the plumbers need to come back, as its lost its pressure.
Cheers for that.
 
I have to wait for my new central heating and as I understand it everything comes out radiators hot water tank boiler electrics etc. I am lead to believe that it will be very messy and will take half a dozen of them several hours. :(
 
Yes accymel, its the one the council are putting in as part of the takeover.
It is quite messy, they put cloths down over your carpet but when they are having to drill through solid concrete walls dust gets everywhere. Ill take some photos of the plumbing, youll laugh your pants off !
 
Right now bearing in mind, im in a ground floor flat with concrete flooring, hence drilling through walls .... Upstairs flats have the piping running down the wall from the loft. Dont know how houses are done or if they lift the floor boards up.

I am led to believe that the piped will be boxed in, but dont know when. The electricians will be in later to rip out old wiring, dont know how messy that will be or what the walls will look like after ...... watch this space.

Nobody as of yet, that i know has been told or recieved any form of compensation for redecorating.

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They should box in the pipes or your kids could accidentally burn themselves on them. (they would be expected to know a radiator is hot, not so a pipe) It will also make them easier to decorate (paint etc)

One thing to watch with teh boiler is that whilst they do need an occasional top up it shouldn't be more than once a month or so. Any more and get them back to check teh expansion chamber as it is a duff one of these that tends to squirt water out the safety valve to be vented outside(Dont ask how I know this Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr)
 
The reason the boiler will not run if the system pressure is low is not only to protect the pump. The system pressure is the only way the boiler knows there is any water in the system.

I don't like the fact they have fitted thermostatic valves and then surface run all the circulation pipes. If they are not at least boxed in, insulated would be ideal, your thermostatic valve will shut off when the room is warm enough but, the room will still be heated by the pipes themselves.
When you use thermostatic valves the heating is on all the time as selected on the time switch, and water is running around the pipes. Each thermostatic valve opens and closes as needed to keep the room at the temperature set on the valve. The burner comes on and off to keep the circulating water hot enough. If you are loosing heat from the circulation pipes the burner will run more often using more gas. On a system where all the pipes are run on the walls without any insulation like your new system is, you might find some room are too hot even with the radiator valve turned off.
 
IIRC at least one radiator has to be open valved anyway or it can cause the boiler to break. (I seem to think that was what we were told by our plumber, we chose the towel radiator in teh bathroom). Our boiler only runs for a couple of hours each day for heating water is on demand
 
jimmi5bellies said:
Yes accymel, its the one the council are putting in as part of the takeover.
It is quite messy, they put cloths down over your carpet but when they are having to drill through solid concrete walls dust gets everywhere. Ill take some photos of the plumbing, youll laugh your pants off !
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Blimey we've got that to come yet although looking forward to a nice warm house but sounds like its going to be an upheaval, tho nice pipes :rofl38:
 
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh thats Neil ..... very technical stuff there. lol . Plumber has just been and done the pressure, checked all radiators are ok and not leaking . Says it could have been the plumbing settling in and that caused the pressure drop.
 
Our pipes come up through the floorboards as you imaginef Chrissie. We once stayed in a B&B which had surface piping and the room was boiling hot even with the radiators off because the pipes chucked out as much heat!
 
entwisi said:
IIRC at least one radiator has to be open valved anyway or it can cause the boiler to break.
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That is what a lot of plumbers think. You can add a bypass valve in the circuit but many boilers have them built in. When all the valves close there is no return path for the water to flow so the pump tries to pump to a dead end which is bad for the pump and boiler. A bypas valve will open when system pressure increase ie when all the radiator valves are closed, to allow the water to flow still. The above system has a flow and return pipe running around the house, a bypass valve should be fitted joining the end of these 2 pipes together to allow flow if all the radiator valves are closed.

I personally think having a radiator without a thermostatic valve is a stupid idea. They normally choose to do it to the bathroom radiator so the bathroom is mad hot all day long.
 
Hey Jimmi5

We've just had a letter over weekend that the heating inspectors are coming round this week & that work on the new heating systems will be in the next few weeks {hopefully} gee talk about quick & hope its not too close to xmas, are they ok?
 
accymel said:
Hey Jimmi5

We've just had a letter over weekend that the heating inspectors are coming round this week & that work on the new heating systems will be in the next few weeks {hopefully} gee talk about quick & hope its not too close to xmas, are they ok?
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The lads that came in and did mine were absolutely fantastic. OK you do get a mess from the drilling and the dust especially as they have drilled through walls with mine being a flat, but they clean up as best they can. The electrcians come around the day after so everything is up in the air again. The 3rd day they come around and flush out your system with some sort of protector liquid. Just waiting for the joiners now to box in some of the pipes.

I am however gobsmacked though at the amount British Gas has gone up. Gone through approx £17 in Gas since last Wednesday night. :( . Have got my central heating on now just for 1 hour, taken note of how much credit i have on the meter and will check again when that 1 hour is up, hopefully this will tell me how much i need to put on for the week and just how much "warmth" i can afford.
 
jimmi5bellies said:
The lads that came in and did mine were absolutely fantastic. OK you do get a mess from the drilling and the dust especially as they have drilled through walls with mine being a flat, but they clean up as best they can. The electrcians come around the day after so everything is up in the air again. The 3rd day they come around and flush out your system with some sort of protector liquid. Just waiting for the joiners now to box in some of the pipes.

I am however gobsmacked though at the amount British Gas has gone up. Gone through approx £17 in Gas since last Wednesday night. :( . Have got my central heating on now just for 1 hour, taken note of how much credit i have on the meter and will check again when that 1 hour is up, hopefully this will tell me how much i need to put on for the week and just how much "warmth" i can afford.
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Cool:D cant wait to have a warm house for a change but yeh the cost of running it worries me a little, im putting close to £10 a week already just to use the one fire & cooker per week & still end up on emergency. Looking forwad to constant hot water & might actually save me a fortune in leccy, so probably balance it out as im currently on the owd econ 7 & owd blowers that dont work cept 1. In my old house the central heating was really economical £10 per week & never on emergency plus the hosue was always warm in fact too warm sometimes, i would of thought they would put an economical boiler in being a new one:confused:
 
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