Evening everyone, I’ve got this lovely little bungalow that I’m struggling to get my head around the heating on. It’s a F and E system with 8 radiators, and I’m not really very clued up on central heating, or even plumbing in general, but the whole set up seems quite odd.
The pipe into the main bathroom appears to send down the hot water from above, it then returns the other end, it gets hottest first so I assume that it’s the feed from the boiler, also it’s the only radiator that has a pipe coming from the loft, even though the boiler is on the ground floor, and that’s about the only thing I can be fairly certain of. The rest of the radiators don’t seem to follow any exact pattern, and the ones that get warm pipes first aren’t necessarily the ones where the radiators heat up first.
The most bizarre thing is the hallway radiator, it’s hard to describe but the hot supply seems to go from one pipe to three different radiators, the hallway one, the first living room one which sits parallel to the hallway one, obviously divided by the wall, and one into another room opposite the living room, but in that room the in and out pipes both lead back to the hot supply, and to make things worse the main living room radiator has a TRV fitted to what appears to be the return pipe, and this joins again to the hallway radiator return side.
Now I’ve written all this I’m not even sure what I’m asking really as I know I’ve not given much to go on. I just can’t get all the radiators to work fully, only the main bathroom one seems to be working all the time regardless, the rest are very hit and miss. I want to attempt to balance them but as they seem to change which gets warm first and the pipes disappear through the concrete floor it’s virtually impossible for me to figure out where to go from the bathroom. I can attempt to draw a layout of the house and where the radiators are if that could help but other than that I’m at a bit of a loss guys I’m afraid.
PP
The pipe into the main bathroom appears to send down the hot water from above, it then returns the other end, it gets hottest first so I assume that it’s the feed from the boiler, also it’s the only radiator that has a pipe coming from the loft, even though the boiler is on the ground floor, and that’s about the only thing I can be fairly certain of. The rest of the radiators don’t seem to follow any exact pattern, and the ones that get warm pipes first aren’t necessarily the ones where the radiators heat up first.
The most bizarre thing is the hallway radiator, it’s hard to describe but the hot supply seems to go from one pipe to three different radiators, the hallway one, the first living room one which sits parallel to the hallway one, obviously divided by the wall, and one into another room opposite the living room, but in that room the in and out pipes both lead back to the hot supply, and to make things worse the main living room radiator has a TRV fitted to what appears to be the return pipe, and this joins again to the hallway radiator return side.
Now I’ve written all this I’m not even sure what I’m asking really as I know I’ve not given much to go on. I just can’t get all the radiators to work fully, only the main bathroom one seems to be working all the time regardless, the rest are very hit and miss. I want to attempt to balance them but as they seem to change which gets warm first and the pipes disappear through the concrete floor it’s virtually impossible for me to figure out where to go from the bathroom. I can attempt to draw a layout of the house and where the radiators are if that could help but other than that I’m at a bit of a loss guys I’m afraid.
PP
