Can’t seem to get rid of air in my system

[KyleT]

Hello,

Recently I noticed that my 2 living room rads were not heating up. All other rads in the house were. It was suggested to me by a plumber to turn the valves on all the working rads off only leaving the two living room rads on and they should heat up. Wait 20-30mins and then turn all rads back on. He said it would likely be air in the system.

Sure enough my living rads started pushing out full heat and I could hear water gurgling in one of the rads as it began heating. I followed the plumbers instructions and everything seems fine but I’m still not happy with my living room rads, one is still not getting as hot as it use to and they are still intermittently heating/not heating when they should be.

For some context, I live in a bungalow, I have a Worcester bosch green star 30i combi supplying 8 rads. The two living room rads are the two furthest from the boiler and one of them is only 6 months old. I’ve tried bleeding all rads numerous times and whilst I am occasionally getting air from a few it still hasn’t sorted the issue. When the issue first occurred I even drained the whole system and refilled with no joy.

The only thing that has changed recently is a bathroom refurb. Separate bathroom/toilet each with its own rads has been knocked through and one rad put in its place. Which became the closest rad to the boiler.

Apologies for the long winded post, I’m at a bit of a loss here, I’m not sure if it’s worth calling a plumber out for this? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Allgoode]

Might be an issue with the pipework from refurb but i expect the bathroom rad if non TRV & lockshield controlled has the lockshield open a lot.

Easy way to try is to count number of turns to turn it off & then open it say 0.5 - 1 turn to see if it helps with pushing the heat to the furthest away rads.

Possibly not a well balanced system but there is threads on here if you search them out, take your time doing it over a few hrs/days & see how system settles down.

Hope this helps,

Thanks,

Andy

 

[steadyon]

Have you actually bled the air from the system? Turning all but the offending radiators off, then back on again, won't clear the air, each radiator and possibly the pump needs to be bled of air individually. Turn on all the radiators. Run the system for 10 minutes, then turn it off. Wait for the system to cool (say 1/2 hour), then bleed each radiator in turn. Do ones nearest boiler (downstairs?) first, then furthest from boiler.