Our central heating system has a few problems: one of which is a downstairs radiator that's been completely cold since we moved in.
We took it off, cleaned it (a bit dirty), and put it back.
We refilled it by opening the tap on the left.
Ran heating system - heat.
We then opened the bleed valve and let the water run out into a bucket - when we did this it filled up with hot water from the right. Shut bleed valve - it stayed warmish, but the pipe leading out of the rad remained cold.
I'm not experienced with out it's set out - but we know now that hot water can enter from right, we could refill with water from the left, but it's not flowing through.
Any thoughts?
In addition, none of the upstairs works. There is a magnaclean on the return from the upstairs but while the upstairs isn't flowing this is basically doing nothing. We took a towel rail off upstairs and that was full of black sludge, cleaned and put it back, but there must be other issues somewhere
Cheers
We took it off, cleaned it (a bit dirty), and put it back.
We refilled it by opening the tap on the left.
Ran heating system - heat.
We then opened the bleed valve and let the water run out into a bucket - when we did this it filled up with hot water from the right. Shut bleed valve - it stayed warmish, but the pipe leading out of the rad remained cold.
I'm not experienced with out it's set out - but we know now that hot water can enter from right, we could refill with water from the left, but it's not flowing through.
Any thoughts?
In addition, none of the upstairs works. There is a magnaclean on the return from the upstairs but while the upstairs isn't flowing this is basically doing nothing. We took a towel rail off upstairs and that was full of black sludge, cleaned and put it back, but there must be other issues somewhere
Cheers