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Post by woodbine66 on Jan 3, 2018 13:47:50 GMT
New one on me this. Read a thread on another forum about someone who bought a house with an ancient Servowarm ch system. They said that one of the upstairs rads was cold, and when they tried to bleed it, no water came out. They went up in the loft and found the tanks. The F&E was empty and wasn't fitted with a float valve.
One of the site experts identified it as a Servowarm system and said that the F&E needed to be topped up manually. When this was done, all rads heated as normal. Also, there was a manual valve in the airing cupboard with a lever to change from heating to hw. I've seen these valves before, but never an F&E that needs manually filling.
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Post by tomplum on Jan 3, 2018 13:55:41 GMT
I used to work for them Woody, There was method in their madness, at the yearly servive the header tank was topped up by the Engneer, before the header tank was a little vase in the corner of a bedroom hung on a wall, this was the origianal header, many customers put a plastic duck in there and when the ducks head vanished, it was time to top up,,
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Post by woodbine66 on Jan 3, 2018 14:14:44 GMT
Thanks Tom, learnt something else there. Will look out for those.
Wondering what would happen with the set up in my post if the boiler stat failed and kept heating. There's no additional water to be let into the system to cool things down.
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Post by endfeed on Jan 3, 2018 14:22:58 GMT
If you come across one of these systems, would you put a f/e tank in with water inlet to resolve the issue of water running out?
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Post by tomplum on Jan 3, 2018 19:48:01 GMT
well you got to think, should i fit a ballvalve and vferflow to this tank and charge £50 or should i tell them the boiler need looking at every 6 months with the tank topping up and charge £50 per visit, It all depends if the custerd is a nice person or a twat,,  |
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