I'm trying to bleed a radiator, but the air is trickling out far too slowly, so maybe I need to add pressure to the system?
The system is 2 years old, in a new-build house. I used to have a combi boiler with two taps underneath, very easy to add pressure - but I don't know how to do it with this new one.
There's a boiler unit in the garage that pretty much just has "ON" or "OFF", no other controls or gauges that I can see.
Then there's a storage tank thing in a cupboard upstairs, with lots of controls and I'm not sure what any of them do!
This is it. There's a single tap at the bottom (which was left in the wide open position by the installer... should it be?):
Close up of label:
The small red tank above the big white one, has a gauge currently reading 0 pressure.
Red controls:
If I turn any of the red controls slightly, I can hear water skooshing around. But even when I turn the one right underneath the pressure gauge, the pressure isn't affected. Although I didn't leave the red thing "open" very long... Do I just need to wait longer?
Any advice appreciated
The system is 2 years old, in a new-build house. I used to have a combi boiler with two taps underneath, very easy to add pressure - but I don't know how to do it with this new one.
There's a boiler unit in the garage that pretty much just has "ON" or "OFF", no other controls or gauges that I can see.
Then there's a storage tank thing in a cupboard upstairs, with lots of controls and I'm not sure what any of them do!
This is it. There's a single tap at the bottom (which was left in the wide open position by the installer... should it be?):
Close up of label:
The small red tank above the big white one, has a gauge currently reading 0 pressure.
Red controls:
If I turn any of the red controls slightly, I can hear water skooshing around. But even when I turn the one right underneath the pressure gauge, the pressure isn't affected. Although I didn't leave the red thing "open" very long... Do I just need to wait longer?
Any advice appreciated