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Default Filling up gravity central heating

On 06/10/2019 15:06, newshound wrote:
On 06/10/2019 13:00, ARW wrote:
The water to the header tank was turned off and the system drained down.

Swapped the mid position vale and it will now not fill back up.

The odd thing is the header tank did not drain off - it was still full
when I went to turn the water on.


Suggestions?

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Adam


Airlock.

No CH when I was a kid, but a routine at home every time a hot water tap
washer had to be changed was to connect a hose between hot and cold
water taps in the bathroom, and turn both on.



Indeed a well tested solution, but worth mentioning that will clear an
airlock in a vented hot water system, it won't help when there is one in
the vented CH primary. You would need to find a way to connect your cold
water tap to a rad tail or similar to have the same effect there.

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Cheers,

John.

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