Too hot!

[LilMissModette]

Can someone please tell me why my bathroom radiator comes on when the hot water is turned on.... Is that meant to happen?

 

[bazdaman]

Old systems were piped this way so its ok, unless you have a combi!

 

[LilMissModette]

Old systems were piped this way so its ok,

Thanks. I reckon the boiler is around 13yrs old - it's an Ideal Icos and it's been a nightmare lately!!!

 

[45yearsagasman]

Even 13 yr old systems were sometimes piped up like that. What happens when rads only are on, and the hot water is not, and has it always been like that?................so many questions

 

[LilMissModette]

Even 13 yr old systems were sometimes piped up like that. What happens when rads only are on, and the hot water is not, and has it always been like that?................so many questions

Then it acts like a normal radiator just 'on' like the others.

Why were they made like that then, what was the purpose? My old man says it's probably to dry out the bathroom

 

[Tay7]

Stops the boiler overheating.

 

[Dan Robinson]

We still install them like that.

 

[JohnD]

Some people (including me) like to have the bathroom radiator or towel rail plumbed so it heats up when the cylinder is heating.

This is typically during or after running a bath, the ideal time for towels to be dried and the bathroom to be heated.

 

[45yearsagasman]

As above.

 

[LilMissModette]

Thanks everyone, I feel so much better informed now.

So now, why does the gas man need to come back and flush out some chemicals he put in my tank that I never knew he'd done in the first place?

 

[Dan Robinson]

BEcause if he put them in, they need to be flushed out.

Especially with your sh|tbox boiler.

 

[Tay7]

Because they will be a system cleaning chemical designed to be left in for a certain length of time. Any longer and itl eat away.

Presumably he'll drain the system and add inhibitor.

 

[LilMissModette]

Because they will be a system cleaning chemical designed to be left in for a certain length of time. Any longer and itl eat away.

Presumably he'll drain the system and add inhibitor.

Thank you Tay7