Central heating

thepharcyde · 9 Aug 2006 at 18:44

I have a boiler and an imersion heater which gets topped up from the boiler with hot water.

I can turn the heating/water on independantly, but recently only with the water on when the timer switches on it is also heating up some of the radiators, which as you can gather makes the house a sauna when I walk in.

Whats the problem, the thermostat on the wall is on min its wierd.

thepharcyde · 9 Aug 2006 at 19:11

This is what I have. I have British Gas cover which is this

http://www.house.co.uk/cgi-bin/hous...elId=-8384&sTopLevelChannel=protect+your+home

Basically this is my Central heating system

I trust this is the 3 point valve? this blue thing below

thepharcyde · 9 Aug 2006 at 19:15

all the 3 point outlets are hot

thepharcyde · 9 Aug 2006 at 19:18

Al-Ectrician said:
edit
Are you only calling for heating when u felt the pipes ?.

sorry not sure what you are asking

thepharcyde · 9 Aug 2006 at 19:24

Al-Ectrician said:
Is your programmer set to HEATING only or both heating/Hot water ?.

Al

Just hot water on 2 timers morning and afternoon. I have just dug out british gas and have home care 300 which covers the whole central heating!

Thankyou for all your help

Lee

thepharcyde · 15 Aug 2006 at 13:32

thepharcyde said:
This is what I have. I have British Gas cover which is this

http://www.house.co.uk/cgi-bin/hous...elId=-8384&sTopLevelChannel=protect+your+home

Basically this is my Central heating system

I trust this is the 3 point valve? this blue thing below

Both blue and valve replaced and all is back to norm. Thx all

thepharcyde · 15 Aug 2006 at 18:55

Werewolf said:
Did you do it yourself, or wimp out and get someone in?

Our 3 port valve seized up a couple of months ago, fortunately i'd still got the one that came with the motor when I had replaced the old controller (I'd left the existing valve in place and just bunged the motor on it).

I pay a premium to British gas who sort out anything like this. They did the whole thing took around 1.5 hours. All at thier expense. I would never try, firstly It would take me 2 days to convince the missus I knew what I was doing, and secondly I would prob mess it up, blow a few fuses and then cry. For anyone interested it costs around £20 a month for all this. When I moved into my house i discovered a leak in the bath. Dynorod part of BG sorted this all for free too.