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Hot water but no Central Heating with young children
We have a Potterton Titanium Combi Gas Boiler which was setup with the wireless Nest Thermostat last year to provide heat to our radiators, heat up our unvented indirect cylinder to provide us hot water and to heat up our under floor heating in our kitchen. There is also one tap in the house...
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Can too much antifreeze effect radiator valves
Hi there, we are having issues with Mitsubishi ASHP Pre Plumbed cylinder. we have 2 zones. UFH and radiators on the first floor. Feeds come off the low loss header at the tank. Both pumped. UFH works fine. It’s the rads that struggle. We always seem to get loads of heat to the rad valves but...
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Grundfos UPS3 - Central Heating Pump
When a pump is switched off does circulating water stop immediately? In other words, is there a bypass within in the pump to allow the water to slow down to a stop? Thanks for any advice
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URGENT water level changes significantly in expansion pipe (open vented system)
I have made some adaptations to the layout of an existing open vented one pipe system. The pump is now some 6 or 7 metres away from the boiler. The cold feed is on the negative side of the pump as is the expansion pipe. The order of fixing is expansion pipe - cold feed - pump. When the pump...
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Which UFH system should I choose?
Hi everyone, I wanted to get everyone's opinions on underfloor heating. I am looking to install a water based underfloor heating system in the kitchen. The walking area of the kitchen where the heating will be around 5 square metres as confirmed by my builder. I'm also looking to install an...
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URGENT Need help on central heating problem
potterto boiler 23 years old, Drayton mid point actuator. Central Heating only works when water also on & stat works normally. When CH only, the stat shows a bright light when calling heat and dim light when at temperature. I changed the stat and it made no difference. The three way valve seems...
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Textured wall - asbestos risk?
Hi everyone, I’m a bit paranoid about asbestos, and I’m living in this apartment - looks to be around mid80s - with a texture on most of the walls (although not ceilings) and the built-in cupboards and shelves. It’s mostly in good condition, but there are a few damaged bits. Do you reckon it’s a...
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Help me understanding my heating installation and replacement
Hi all, I just joined the forum as I couldn't find help just being a lurker. :) I just bought my first house (yay me) and it's a new one. The installation has been done my a bunch of different people and the plumber himself couldn't explain fully what he's done (yes, you read it right). I...
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Underfloor heating/boiler sizing
Im refurbing my house and looking into underfloor heating downstairs. What size boiler would be needed for 30m2 underfloor heating 1 bathroom 7 radiators (5 if ufh installed)
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Boiler not getting hot enough
We moved into our current home in June. The heating is supplied by a 10 year old WB Greenstar CDi 37kkW combi boiler. I had the boiler checked by a local GSR engineer who has serviced my son's boiler for many years. He said it was working correctly. So far it has worked OK, getting the house up...
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Secondary Return Pump Noise / Air ?
Hi, Recently I noticed that we were running out of HW more than expected, perhaps it’s people are taking more baths but I wanted to check out if the pair of Vaillant uniSTOR’s were both heating, thinking that maybe I had a problem with one of the Zone Valves were not heating one of the tanks...
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Toto Energy Goes Bump - Customers getting gas for free? What to do?
Toto Energy Goes Bust- Customers getting gas for free? What to do? TOTO News Administration appointment 30th October 2019 Steve Absolom and Will Wright were appointed Joint Administrators of Toto Energy Ltd – in Administration (the ‘Company’) on 30 October 2019. Formal notice of appointment...
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Cold Towel Rail Fed By Robbens UFH System
Hi All, Hoping someone can help with what I thought was a minor problem/easy fix issue with the towel rail in my new-ish house; it is now permanently cold. I'll explain a bit of background, the system set up and some things I've tried so far... Hopefully I'm missing something blindly obvious...
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EP3002 no heating but hot water fine
Evening all. I've not needed to post on here for a while but it's silly season again and one of my first breakdowns has me scratching my head a bit. EP2002 blown as was the pump which had started leaking. Replaced both, pump now runs when heating demand is present but it doesn't warm up. It's...
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Atag boiler only cycling on for a short time
Hi, I had an Atag system (heat only) boiler fitted about 3 years ago. It’s model IR24 LPG. It’s worked fine for the first year or so, but on the second winter (last winter) it had a strange problem where it would only cycle on for about 1 minute and then would go off for about 5 minutes, before...
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Old baxi bermuda to combi boiler cost help!
Hello all and thanks for letting me post this question in your forum. I have just had a quote in of £5,700 to replace our old baxi bermuda back boiler with a new baxi 800 combi boiler. All pipework in the property would be changed and along with nine radiators. Decommision and remove the old...
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Gas usage question - crazy high consumption
My rented accommodation currently has no boiler control whatsoever: no timer or programmable unit. I need to control the heating at the boiler by either increasing or decreasing the flow temperature and turning it down low at night. I will be soon be fitting a smart control system (such as a...
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Drayton Wiser - advice needed
Hi all I'm going to fit a Drayton Wiser heating control system with smart TRVs for every room. I'm hoping some of you more knowledgeable people can give me some advice. I'm heating two floors. The boiler is a Vaillant Ecotec Plus 938. Downstairs, I have the following rooms: A conservatory...
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Boiler cycling when system up to temperature
Hello, can anyone explain what causes a Honeywell Ultracom 24hxi that works as expected when the system is cold, but when the system gets up to temperature the boiler starts to constantly cycle and fire quickly every 30 seconds or so. - When the system is cold the boiler will fire for a period...
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Radiator leak from top
So this radiator is only just over one year old and have noticed it started leaking from the top, and rust started forming. I think it's a Kudox radiator, obviously low quality. My plumber bought from Screwfix and him and I have fallen out so calling him back is not an option. Also I suppose...
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