Heating advice from your local heating engineer
What the cold patch means, when a flush is worth it, and when it is a five minute job you can do yourself.
- Radiator cold at the bottom, hot at the top? A radiator that is cold along the bottom is full of sludge, not broken. Why it happens, why bleeding will not help, and when a local heating engineer flushes the system.
- Is a powerflush worth it? When a powerflush is the right answer for your heating, when it is not, and why the magnetic filter afterwards matters as much as the flush.
- Heating pressure keeps dropping? Topping up once a year is normal. Weekly is a fault. How to read the gauge, where the water usually goes, and why constant top-ups make the system worse.
- Some rooms warm, far rooms cold? Your system needs balancing When the rooms nearest the boiler roast and the far ones never warm, nothing is broken. What balancing is, how it is done, and why it costs nothing in parts.
- Boiler banging, kettling or whistling? A boiler that sounds like a kettle about to boil usually has limescale or sludge on its heat exchanger. Why it matters, what to check, and what a heating engineer does.
- Moving a radiator or adding a new one What a heating engineer has to think about when a radiator moves or a new one goes in. Pipe runs, sizing, valves and rebalancing afterwards.
- Off the gas grid in the Vale? Oil and LPG heating For homes in the rural Vale of Glamorgan and the lanes around Bridgend that are not on mains gas. What we do on LPG and oil boilers, and why oil jobs start with a site visit.
- A local heating engineer for Neath and Port Talbot Based in Pencoed at junction 35, we cover all heating work in Neath, Port Talbot, Briton Ferry and Skewen. Repairs, radiators, powerflushing, servicing and new boilers.
Tell your local heating engineer what is wrong
Tell us the symptom, the fault code if there is one, and where you are. Half the diagnosis happens before we arrive, and it decides which part comes with us.