Hi All.
I have a S plan system where the boiler serves underfloor heating, cylinder and radiators. For some time now, we have had this loud noise when the hot water 2 port zone valve stops, i.e when the stat tells it to stop, we have a loud clambering noise that always wakes us up, and my next door neighbour has complained to me also.
I was brave enough to attempt to change it, however I made my first mistake by changing it with a 3 port zone valve, rather than just a like for like 2 port zone valve. It was later on that I realised my mistake but I already opened the pipework at that stage, so I just used a 22mm end feed to block off the redundant output on the new zone valve.
The zone valve was supposed to be a straight swap, but after changing the plumbing aspect of it, a friend of mine did the electrical as I had to attend to an issue at work. Now I don't know what he did, but below is what is happening now.
When we call for heat on the radiator, it fires up the boiler but the zone valve isn't opening unless I set it to manual then our radiators work. This zone valve was working fine before the works/changin the hot water zone valve, we had no issues with the CH circuit. How do I know if the zone valve is bad or something with the wiring has been tampered with ?
Right now when we call for heating, the boiler fires but zone valve doesn't open.
When we call for hot water, its hard for me to tell if that's working because of the 3port zone valve, and being a cylinder I have no way of knowing if its working unless the hot water is exhausted then I know that it hasn't been replenished.
Underfloor heating takes time, for that as well I will need to let it run for a few hours then look at the temperature on the UFH gauge, is there a better way to tell ?
Thanks in advance.
I have a S plan system where the boiler serves underfloor heating, cylinder and radiators. For some time now, we have had this loud noise when the hot water 2 port zone valve stops, i.e when the stat tells it to stop, we have a loud clambering noise that always wakes us up, and my next door neighbour has complained to me also.
I was brave enough to attempt to change it, however I made my first mistake by changing it with a 3 port zone valve, rather than just a like for like 2 port zone valve. It was later on that I realised my mistake but I already opened the pipework at that stage, so I just used a 22mm end feed to block off the redundant output on the new zone valve.
The zone valve was supposed to be a straight swap, but after changing the plumbing aspect of it, a friend of mine did the electrical as I had to attend to an issue at work. Now I don't know what he did, but below is what is happening now.
When we call for heat on the radiator, it fires up the boiler but the zone valve isn't opening unless I set it to manual then our radiators work. This zone valve was working fine before the works/changin the hot water zone valve, we had no issues with the CH circuit. How do I know if the zone valve is bad or something with the wiring has been tampered with ?
Right now when we call for heating, the boiler fires but zone valve doesn't open.
When we call for hot water, its hard for me to tell if that's working because of the 3port zone valve, and being a cylinder I have no way of knowing if its working unless the hot water is exhausted then I know that it hasn't been replenished.
Underfloor heating takes time, for that as well I will need to let it run for a few hours then look at the temperature on the UFH gauge, is there a better way to tell ?
Thanks in advance.
