Noisy boiler, not the missus

[cornwell40]

A bit of an off chance that someone may be an expert on boilers as well.
When the heating is running we get a noise through the house (intermittently), that sounds like a B52 doing loop da loop above the house. Please help its driving me nuts. Baxi Genesis 80 combi.
Tony C

[kwatt]

Airlock? 😉

IIRC you’d have to bleed the system off or do some mad plumber trick with the hot tap that I can’t quite recall. 😕

K.

[Dave_Conway]

Re: Noisy boiler, not the missus

Air in the system would be my guess, try bleeding the rads of air and see what happens 🙂

Dave.

[Dave_Conway]

Re: Noisy boiler, not the missus

Oi 😆

[gegsy]

Re: Noisy boiler, not the missus

OR has some dimwit put some of the radiators the wrong way round upsetting the regulator valve on the radiator, I know this because I have had some dimwit do this 😆

Greg

[goosegreen]

Re: Noisy boiler, not the missus

Try asking on this site http://tinyurl.com/yxmo6j They are quite helpfull as long as you state that you are not a plumber.

Goose

[Martin]

Re: Noisy boiler, not the missus

B52 eh? My old Potterton does a cross between the Concorde and a single engined Cessna whenever the header tank runs low. (It’s got a sticking cock don’t ya know, I must get up there and replace it before it starts to sound like a B52 😯 )

Bleedin’ radiators all the time I am….. 🙁

[cornwell40]

Re: Noisy boiler, not the missus

Cheers for the replies Gents 🙂

For the first few days I genuinely thought it was a prop plane doing airobatics as we live near a few airfields 😳 . Weird noise!!!

Tony C

[paulpaddison]

Re: Noisy boiler, not the missus

exactly like martin said, ball valves allways seam to stick on the expansion tanks on heating systems especialy during the summer months. make shure it aint seized up and see if the tank is empty. also try adding a chemical cleaner to the water to prevent boiler and pump noises traveling through the system. cant remember the name of the stuff i last used on a customers heating system but it does work. helps make the system last longer too

[cornwell40]

Re: Noisy boiler, not the missus

The pressure guage for the system is faulty I think. Opened the tap for a couple of seconds before Chrimble and the noise has gone.

[paulpaddison]

Re: Noisy boiler, not the missus

ohh its a combi boiler 😀 sounds like ur diverter valve may be on its way out. ur gonna need a boiler engineer to replace the pressure gauge and check diverter valve you may need the system flushing or simply an adative adding to one of the rads to help clean the system either way dont leave it too long if that valve does go you loose hot water heating may still operate

[paulpaddison]

Re: Noisy boiler, not the missus

hi has the boiler problem been sorted yet ❓

[cornwell40]

Re: Noisy boiler, not the missus

Yep thanks, been fine since. 😀

I think a new boiler will be purchased over the next couple of months though. It looks a little battered from the previous owner 😥

Tony C

[paulpaddison]

Re: Noisy boiler, not the missus

reminds me of a flat i just been working on a young couple lived in it previousley and when the lady found her boyfriend was cheating on him she kinda ripped out the toilet and sink smashed every door in the place destroyed plasterboard walls and all sorts 🙁 luckly the chap who moved into the flat after the last lot moved out had moved in after it was renovated 😀 i think the only thing that survived that girls temper was the boiler.

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