Central Heating - help!

poonum

So yesterday we had an engineer from heat-team come round to look at our bathroom radiator which had stopped coming on. The new bathroom + rad was only fitted 3 years ago, but engineer reckons we have a sludge build up problem in the system, & that one by one all of our rads in the house will stop working due to this & he said we need a power flush.

The bathroom rad is now working, not great, but it is at least warm rather than stone cold! But since the engineer's been, we turned the heating on this morning to find we now have several other rads in the house either not coming on at all or only lukewarm... They were fine before he came - what on earth has happened?!

Our cover with heat-team is only for boiler, controls, rads etc & the engineer said that the actual rads themselves were old but working fine, it was the system that needed helping with a power flush. Therefore as we're not covered for that we'd have to pay a company about £600 to get one done.

I'm not v happy that since he came, other rads are now not working, but that heat-team will just say that sorry you're not covered for things like power flushes, we can't do anything to help as the rads themselves are not broken. But they were working fine for us before yesterday!

Could I have some advice please, I've no idea what to do really : (

gas4you

All I can think is that the sludge build up (assuming this is the problem for now) in the bathroom radiator has now moved to other radiators.

You could check your pump and if not set to max, turn it up to full speed. Also check that any bypass valve in the airing cupboard is not fully open.

This may alleviate the immediate problem, but IF it is a sludged system, then a powerflush will be the only proper answer.

I would have thought a local heating engineer would charge around £350, not £600