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Balanced radiators? downstairs still taking ages to heat up

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  • Alex1983
    Alex1983 Posts: 958 Forumite
    How many radiators do you have? Do you have a open or sealed system?
  • steve1500
    steve1500 Posts: 1,470 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    It is an open system & 13 rads
  • Wassa123
    Wassa123 Posts: 393 Forumite
    I take it you've made all the upstairs radiators 1/4 turn on, and all the downstairs ones are open fully?

    We have a tall but thin townhouse (3 floors, 2 rooms on each) and we have a similar problem. It's better since I balanced it this way, but I still hope to find a way for downstairs to warm up more! Doesn't help that our desktop machines are on the top floor too which heats it up!
  • Alex1983
    Alex1983 Posts: 958 Forumite
    13 rads isn’t that big and I can’t imagine you would need to balance them to that extreme to make them all work this also obviously hasn’t always been a problem so I would suspect as i said before i would think is a pump or restriction. To balance a system correctly you need measure the flow and return temps and adjust the valves accordingly.
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