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One radiator suddenly switched off
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I do have hot water (and cold) from every other tap and also cold water in the kitchen - only that one tap has stopped so I'm guessing it is frozen up.
I have 4 radiators in the house that do not have the lovely big fat TRV valves and 4 radiators that do have them.
I didn't notice if I had hot water or not before dickering around with the rads."The problem with Internet quotes is that you can't always depend on their accuracy" - Abraham Lincoln, 18640 -
UPDATE: I'm getting a tiny intermittent trickle of water from the hot tap, which suggests that it is thawing. So at least that is something. Radiator's still bung though."The problem with Internet quotes is that you can't always depend on their accuracy" - Abraham Lincoln, 18640
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I think this is 2 separate issues, with the hot tap at least being col-dweather related.No free lunch, and no free laptop
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I suspect you are right! Coincidences eh?macman said:I think this is 2 separate issues, with the hot tap at least being col-dweather related."The problem with Internet quotes is that you can't always depend on their accuracy" - Abraham Lincoln, 18640 -
If you can get to the pipes in the garage attack them with a hair dryer. That will soon melt anything in the pipes.
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UPDATE: The saga continues, with a twist!
- Good news: kitchen hot water tap spontaneously started working again (suspect a frozen pipe unfroze itself)
- Good news: lounge radiator spontaneously started working again
- BAD NEWS: kitchen radiator is not working...
So the fault (non-working radiator) has moved from the lounge to the kitchen next door. What the heck would cause this problem?
BTW I insulated the garage today, packing it around the already lagged pipes so I don't expect any more frozen pipes from hereonin."The problem with Internet quotes is that you can't always depend on their accuracy" - Abraham Lincoln, 18640 -
Can't get a heating engineer out for love or money - everybody is booked solid and people with no heating are being prioritised. Anybody else care to have a stab at what the problem could be?
To summarise:
- One radiator didn't work for several days. It spontaneously came back to life yesterday but the next radiator along has now died.
Can't get my living area above 9 degrees as kitchen and lounge are joined, so one rad is trying to heat an enormous area.
"The problem with Internet quotes is that you can't always depend on their accuracy" - Abraham Lincoln, 18640 -
FINAL UPDATE: SOLVED
Posting this in case someone else has this problem in future. It was a radiator balancing issue.
The solution was to turn the lockshield valve a little bit anti-clockwise on the non-working radiator BUT ALSO upstream on the radiator that had previously stopped working. Because they're in sequence, one affects the other so I had to change the flow of both slightly.
All systems now go."The problem with Internet quotes is that you can't always depend on their accuracy" - Abraham Lincoln, 18640
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