My Upside Down Heating System
My heating system is proving a nightmare to get right. On Friday the plumber found that instead of having the normally closed actuators on the valves with an M30 thread, they are normally open ones with an M28 thread.
Obviously, the originals fell of the back of a lorry somewhere in foreign parts, but they are totally incompatible with a modern heating control system. One supplier said that they were probably specially made, so they could charge a fortune for replacements.
The outcome is that there is little or no control of the temperature of the floors in my house. They seem to remain stone cold all the time.
Although, you can get some heat into them at odd times, but I suspect that is because the sun warms the room above the temperature set on the controls. This opens the valve and it gets even hotter, when it should switch the system off.
Was this why I collapsed in the heat and ended up in hospital? The doctors don’t think so, but I’m not going to let the house repeat its attempt to kill me!
The more I find out about this house, the more I come to the conclusion, that the architect had a few good ideas, but was very short on detail and calculations, the house was built by Jerry and he used a heating engineer, who used components with a very dodgy history. But then the name of company who developed the site was called Back Street Developments. They seem to have taken the money from those who bought the houses and run, as there is no trace of the company or an NHBRC Warranty.
I’m going to change the manifolds and actuators to the standard that every other system uses.
The Anonymous Widower 
We bought a house with a weird heating system, the guy we bought it off had installed it himself, asking people what to do if he got stuck!!! we ended up having a plumber come in and sort it out so that it worked properly!
Comment by Liz P | December 25, 2013 |
That’s what’s happening now! Unfortunately, it seems to have been designed to thwart the most experienced of plumber’s attempts to fix it. The only thing at present, we don’t seem we’ll have to change are the heating pipes under the floor. But I won’t say never!
Comment by AnonW | December 26, 2013 |
it took the plumber we used a long time to fix it, here was here full time for nearly 2 weeks. I hope you find someone who can fix it, being cold is not good for anyone.
Comment by Liz P | December 26, 2013 |