O/T - central heating & boiler question - help would be greatly appreciated

[BN9 BHA]

It's quicker. I said I was a cowboy.

No, never do this. I have been a plumber for many years and I'm not sure how this is quicker.
The quickest way to fill and bleed a heating system with a combi boiler is with two people, one to operate the filling loop and the other to bleed the rads.

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

Unless I have read this wrong, are you advising to bleed the rads with the heating on ?

Expansion

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

No, never do this. I have been a plumber for many years and I'm not sure how this is quicker.
The quickest way to fill and bleed a heating system with a combi boiler is with two people, one to operate the filling loop and the other to bleed the rads.

I use Wrong Direction my bleeding son

 

[BN9 BHA]

I use Wrong Direction my bleeding son

Get him to do the running around

 

[Goldstone1976]

Or now he's used the PRV, that is letting by (even more than before..)

Goldstone1976 - Is the PRV (the open pipe to outside) dripping after you have released pressure from it ?

Mark (plumber) was dismayed that I'd played with the PRV, saying that I really shouldn't have done so as "they almost never reseat themselves properly". I pointed out that the boiler instruction book told me to do precisely what I'd done. He shrugged and said it was wrong. Apparently, I should have released the pressure by bleeding a rad until the pressure dropped. You live and learn.

Anyway, he took the PRV out, cleaned it, greased it and reseated it. The pipe didn't drip after that. I said "So, how come I was having to bleed the rad every two weeks?" He said "Either the PRV has been somewhat unseated for some time and it's been leaking even before your ill advised playing with it this morning (ie exactly as you suggest), or you have a different leak. Given you can't see any leak and there's no water coming through the downstairs ceiling, it's likely that any such leak is through a join in a pipe in your ground floor concrete floor. You better hope it's not that, as that will be seriously expensive and inconvenient. Check the pressure gauge in a week. If it's dropped, you have a leak other than the PRV". All made sense to me... hope it's the former diagnosis...

 

[Rowdey]

You're not to know, but yes they are notorious.

Good that he took the effort to clean and fix. Mind you, Bank holiday Sunday call out, nice if you can get it..!

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

Mark (plumber) was dismayed that I'd played with the PRV, saying that I really shouldn't have done so as "they almost never reseat themselves properly". I pointed out that the boiler instruction book told me to do precisely what I'd done. He shrugged and said it was wrong. Apparently, I should have released the pressure by bleeding a rad until the pressure dropped. You live and learn.

Anyway, he took the PRV out, cleaned it, greased it and reseated it. The pipe didn't drip after that. I said "So, how come I was having to bleed the rad every two weeks?" He said "Either the PRV has been somewhat unseated for some time and it's been leaking even before your ill advised playing with it this morning (ie exactly as you suggest), or you have a different leak. Given you can't see any leak and there's no water coming through the downstairs ceiling, it's likely that any such leak is through a join in a pipe in your ground floor concrete floor. You better hope it's not that, as that will be seriously expensive and inconvenient. Check the pressure gauge in a week. If it's dropped, you have a leak other than the PRV". All made sense to me... hope it's the former diagnosis...

Personally I would move ----It will be cheaper in the long run

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

Get him to do the running around

People think this plumbing lark is easy

 

[Soulman]

He shrugged and said it was wrong. Apparently, I should have released the pressure by bleeding a rad until the pressure dropped. You live and learn.

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Shame, i said in post 13 to "Bleed the problem radiator until the pressure on the boiler drops to the correct level, maybe helpful to have someone at the boiler to tell you when the pressure has reached the correct level."
Never mind as you say, you live and learn.......i did.

 

[Goldstone1976]

Shame, i said in post 13 to "Bleed the problem radiator until the pressure on the boiler drops to the correct level, maybe helpful to have someone at the boiler to tell you when the pressure has reached the correct level."
Never mind as you say, you live and learn.......i did.

You did indeed. Unfortunately, I didn't see your post until I returned to post that I'd played with the PRV. It was remiss of me to not subsequently acknowledge the correctness of your advice, which I happily do now.

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

You did indeed. It was remiss of me to not subsequently acknowledge the correctness of your advice, which I happily do now.

You sound like that fella from the film The Village

 

[Goldstone1976]

You sound like that fella from the film The Village

Huh. I look like Joaquín Phoenix too. Weird coincidence!

 

[Soulman]

You did indeed. Unfortunately, I didn't see your post until I returned to post that I'd played with the PRV. It was remiss of me to not subsequently acknowledge the correctness of your advice, which I happily do now.

Sorry, did not mean to come across like that. Just gutted for you.

 

[Soulman]

You sound like that fella from the film The Village

Your not being much help are you, the fellas had trouble with his bleeding radiator, and his pressure was fit to burst...........