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Humming noise from central heating
We have had a new Worcestershire Bosch 30i boiler. We have found during the day when room stat is set to 18 deg no problem, at night when we increase room stat to 22 deg there is an occasional humming noise and it stops when we turn the hot tap on.
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roupdirect.com: We have had a new Worcestershire Bosch 30i boiler. We have found during the day when room stat is set to 18 deg no problem, at night when we increase room stat to 22 deg there is an occasional humming noise and it stops when we turn the hot tap on. Flow resonance - try adjusting some lockshield valves to shange the flow. Read up on "Balancing a Central Heating System" Could be a thermostative valve being nearly closed and vibrating in the flow. |
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On 15/01/2021 00:03, JohnP wrote:
Kjh wrote in roupdirect.com: We have had a new Worcestershire Bosch 30i boiler. We have found during the day when room stat is set to 18 deg no problem, at night when we increase room stat to 22 deg there is an occasional humming noise and it stops when we turn the hot tap on. Flow resonance - try adjusting some lockshield valves to shange the flow. Read up on "Balancing a Central Heating System" Could be a thermostative valve being nearly closed and vibrating in the flow. I had something similar and cured by slightly reducing the gas flow to the gas burner. -- mailto : news {at} admac {dot} myzen {dot} co {dot} uk |
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Humming noise from central heating
On Fri, 15 Jan 2021 08:25:56 -0000, "Brian Gaff \(Sofa\)"
wrote: It very much depends on where its actually coming from, both ideas here could be the case, and my neighbour had a pump that occasionally shifted and made contact with a wall, transmitting the motor buzz all around the house and also here next door. Brian I had similar symptoms with the pump, got annoyingly loud after a few years. Had a new pump fitted, totally quiet again, and rads getting warmer, faster. Dismantled the old (10 year old Grunfos) pump, just separated the motor from the cast body, and found that the impeller was almost totally clogged up with hardened "sludge". The design of the impeller has narrow passages between its input and output edges, which can get easily clogged. I could have got away with just cleaning it if I'd known about this. Have now had the system power flushed and a Magnaclean filter fitted. |
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Humming noise from central heating
On 15/01/2021 11:10, Davidm wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jan 2021 08:25:56 -0000, "Brian Gaff \(Sofa\)" wrote: It very much depends on where its actually coming from, both ideas here could be the case, and my neighbour had a pump that occasionally shifted and made contact with a wall, transmitting the motor buzz all around the house and also here next door. Brian I had similar symptoms with the pump, got annoyingly loud after a few years. Had a new pump fitted, totally quiet again, and rads getting warmer, faster. Dismantled the old (10 year old Grunfos) pump, just separated the motor from the cast body, and found that the impeller was almost totally clogged up with hardened "sludge". The design of the impeller has narrow passages between its input and output edges, which can get easily clogged. I could have got away with just cleaning it if I'd known about this. Have now had the system power flushed and a Magnaclean filter fitted. In my case I had the problem when the circulating water reached it final temperature. Switching from CH to CH + water would stop the problem for a short while until again the water in the system reached the final stable temperature. Manually turning off individual radiators etc. didn't make any difference nor did the automatic shutting down of the thermostatic radiator valves. Increasing the pump speed could reduce the problem (volume of noise) but this caused over-pumping into the expansion tank. So, firing the boiler from a cold system resulted in no buzzing/vibration noise until water in the total system got to its final stable temperature. The room thermostat was still calling for heat. The buzzing/vibration started at a very low level and got progressively worse over a period of 2 minutes. The boiler would now turn off for a 2 to 5 minutes. When switching back on it would be silent at first but as the heat exchanger/water got hotter the buzzing/vibration would start again getting louder until the boiler again cut off. Although difficult to exactly pin-point the source I believe it was the boiler itself and the buzzing/vibration was transmitted via the connecting pipes. As I previous wrote, turning down the gas to the burners totally cured the problem and resulted in longer on times in the burner cycle. I should also mention that this is a 20+ year old boiler/system[1] and the problem only occurred the first winter after having a run of around 3 metres of gas pipe (in the path to the boiler) changed from 15mm to 22mm so the input pressure to the boiler may have marginally increased. [1] At the time it was advertised/classed as a high efficiency boiler with a copper heat exchanger rather than the older cast iron. The manual claims an efficiency of around 90% ! -- mailto : news {at} admac {dot} myzen {dot} co {dot} uk |
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