FTAO: Heating/Plumbing guru's

[Batch]

or as its summer the rads are rebelling against being turned on

This is true.

[Arriba]

do you reckon he's flooded the house or blown it up yet?
we need updates damn it...

[Batch]

He's probably not allowed on the internet until he's fixed it.

[Arriba]

i reckon his girlfirend wont get naked until the heating is fixed hence his desperate attempts to fix it.

[leefer]

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Last picture of Chubbs looking for the heating problem,think it was about to blow

[deltaincline]

If the pressure on your system is at zero - I'm assuming you have a combi boiler - as others have said, just re-pressurise the heating circuit via the cold water filling loop / flow / return pipework which will be under the boiler.

The flow and return pipes will be 22mm size and one of them will have a union that is connected to the cold water feed (15mm).

Pump it up to around 1 - 1.5 bar or within the limits indicated on the pressure guage on the boiler. Dont worry too much about where the water has gone for the pressure to have dropped. Most of it just evaporates via micro leaks that will be impossible to detect. The filling loop is there to be used, so use it.

If you over pressurise the boiler it will just vent off any exess water via a dump valve on the outside wall - unless the boiler was installed by a fuckwitt, in which case you could get a rusty water makeover wherever the thing is situated.

Most modern combi's are listed online. If you get stuck, dont call an engineer out, just ring the manufacturers. They'll always talk a consumer through the procedure over the phone.

[Ginginho]

Where's the morning update?
Did she make it through the night!?

[magicroundabout]

Heating is slowly comming back too, but pressure still showing 0. hmmmm.

you need to put more water in your system. Not enough pressure to get to all radiators.

Follow Deltas steps and everything should be fine. but it may also be useful to go round all the rads to see if they need bleeding

[Arriba]

i wonder how this went? aint read nothing in the adver about a house blowing up

[Batch]

Perhaps they are now just little blocks of ice.

Though Chubbs profile says he was last active "Friday, June 24, 2011, 18:28:06"

[Ralphy]

Meant to be 27 degrees tomorrow and Monday, reckon he'll turn the heating down a notch ?

[Chubbs]

Glad to see you've all be worried sick about me. All seems to be working ok for now thanks for the help, might still get someone to come and have a look.

[stfcinbmth]

Meant to be 27 degrees tomorrow and Monday

Oh shit let's hope so, fed up with this cruddy weather

[Arriba]

boooo.what a let down that was