No-one can work out why our heating isn't working!

[jtsplumbing]

Looks like a Pump problem, OP states it was replaced 5 years ago ! But what Brand of pump ? and is it the correct size for the property ?

 

[Harvest Fields]

Looks like a Pump problem, OP states it was replaced 5 years ago ! But what Brand of pump ? and is it the correct size for the property ?

And is there muck in the system.?

 

[Ted808]

Has any work been done recently? Apart from trying to sort out why heating isn't working?

 

[Riley]

Are the guys you’ve got in actually plumbers

 

[Harvest Fields]

Are the guys you’ve got in actually plumbers

I thought that.

 

[Last Plumber]

Are the guys you’ve got in actually plumbers

It wouldn't surprise me if they were fully qualified these days to be honest.
I went to a job not that long ago and the customer said I was the fifth!!!!
Ridiculous!
It was something that any Engineer worth his / her salt would have diagnosed within 5 min too. That is the largest procession of Plumbers I have heard of but it is by no means the only time I've heard it.
They even left tools!!!

The mind boggles.

 

[Harvest Fields]

I’ve lost plenty of grips and screwdrivers over the years. Doesn’t mean anything to do with levelnof Workmanship.

 

[Last Plumber]

I’ve lost plenty of grips and screwdrivers over the years. Doesn’t mean anything to do with levelnof Workmanship.

No, I lose gear myself, it drives me crackers.

I needed a part and the customer laughed and said "that's what they all say, I won't see you again".

I offered to leave my tools to prove I would return and she opened the kitchen draw to show me a pile of Plumbers tools.
"They did that too", she said.

There were pump pliers, adjustable spanners, amongst other things. All decent stuff too.

I don't understand why that's all?

I am by no means saying it's their fault, it must come down to the training/learning process. Not just the colleges either, who they learn with or from makes the biggest difference to these types of occurrences.

 

[Vee]

Pump. Wilo or British Gas by any chance. I will have to stop shaving.

 

[Last Plumber]

Pump. Wilo or British Gas by any chance. I will have to stop shaving.

Pump. Wilo or British Gas by any chance. I will have to stop shaving.

Have you go chin whiskers too Vee?

 

[jtsplumbing]

It wouldn't surprise me if they were fully qualified these days to be honest.
I went to a job not that long ago and the customer said I was the fifth!!!!
Ridiculous!
It was something that any Engineer worth his / her salt would have diagnosed within 5 min too. That is the largest procession of Plumbers I have heard of but it is by no means the only time I've heard it.
They even left tools!!!

The mind boggles.

Totally agree with what your saying I come across the same , simplest of jobs and they cant do it even basic plumbing tasks seem to be beyond them, and they seem to charge stupid amounts of money, and leave the problem worse than it was, God help this trade in 20 years, not that I'm bothered ! be long gone by then fixing the boilers down below

 

[Riley]

The thing is it’s the simple things I’m seeing wrong more and more often. I don’t claim to never make mistakes But at least I’m human and know what I’ve done wrong and fix it. Usually it’s something really daft on a Friday afternoon

 

[Vee]

Have you go chin whiskers too Vee?

I usually just pluck them. No enough for a beard.

 

[sammathias]

If upstairs rads get hot but downstairs rads dont, pump is literally first thing id be looking at. I would be pulling out the old trusted flathead screwdriver within minutes. My guess is they are 'plastic' plumbers and dont really have a clue. Saying that your system could be sludged leading to the failed 5 year old pump.

 

[Riley]

It could still be a goosed pump because of sludge but the problem as said above will likely be the pump in terms of no corculation