i need serious help please

melissa

we're going to try to bleed them tomorrow, i think that may be the problem, thanks so much for all the info, i'll post tomorrow (she's sleeping now) when we know more...

melissa

i need help

alright. we have a hot water heating system. with an oil burner. we rent this house and the landlord isn't much help. we have your typical metal radiators. one seems to not be working.

we also have two thermostats, that both seem to turn on the heat if one is up higher than the other one... i really don't understand this...

anyway, one of the rooms (one roomate's bedroom) the heater does not work at all. we turned the heat on by putting the therm up (both of them) and neither time was heat going to her radiator.

they have turned the valve for the radiator on and it's still not working. any ideas?

sorry that we're kind of knowledgeless about this...

oh, also if it helps our house is located in massachusetts.

please if anyone can help email us back, thanks so much

- cold professionals

Jamie Pompetti

Did you try bleeding the radiator?

John@Reliable

Help it's cold in here!

Melissa, Is one thermostat on 1st floor and other on 2nd? If so look for a little silver vent on rad. towards the top? (It's only sticks out alittle and is about as round as a dime) You should be able to turn the center with a screwdriver counter clockwise to release air out of system,as soon as you can get about 1 cup of water out turn back off and heat should come on. P.S. if you find these vents best to do all in house! Let us know how you make out,hope this helps. John@Reliable (also in ma)

mark anderson

Seperate zone and pump failed!!!

Is this radiator zoned off by valve or pump.One or the other failed.

I am not in the business but this seems logical.

John@Reliable

Sorry mark, not likely

really sounds like they only have air in system,very common on older systems here in ma.

melissa

btw i don't know what you mean by zoned off by valve or pump

Floyd

You would have to look...

by the boiler to tell that.....
bleed the rads and then you can go farther if that doesn't work.

Floyd

ScottMP

Bleed the radiator

Open that little vent Melisa and if you get water, thats not the problem. More than likly it is the problem and you will have air spitting out. As John said, what untill you get about a cup of water and then see what happens. MAKE sure you have the valve in the right position. Having treid moving it in different postions you may have left it closed by mistake. Look closly at the valve handle it " should" say open and closed, on it. Somtimes not, and somtimes its painted over.

When you turn up one thermostate does the whole house get warm or only one floor ( or area)? If you turn up the other thermostate does a different area get warm ?

Thats what we mean by "zoned off ".

Come back and tell us how you did. Your in good hands here.

Scott

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melissa

alright so i went to play with it...

and there is a round knob on the end of the radiator and when you turn it it just turns and doesn't feel like it's actually opening or closing anything (do you know what i mean?)

also, i'm going to assume that water is going to be a good 200 degrees or so when it comes out of the valve. i figure i need to take precautions against that...

i'm waiting til they come home to work on it

melissa

oh yeah when i bleed them

does the heat have to be 'running' when i do this?

ed wallace

no heat

no the shstem does not have to be on when bleeding the radiator if no water or air comes out you have another problem like no water pressure im in Watertown Ma if nearby call me at 617-923-6323 or pager 617-339-0845 its a cold night good luck

Dave Flood

Hi Mellisa,
Your getting a lot of good information from all of these men. It sounds to me like you might be air-bound also. I noticed in your last comment that the knob on the side of the radiator keeps turning and doesn't seem to do much at all. It is possible that the stem in the valve is broken, and the radiator is closed off from the supply side. If so, your getting water coming back through the return side when your bleeding. I would recomend you call a local heating contracotr.

Dave Flood
dir of Tech Ed
ICPA Tech Trng Ctr
Wallingford, Ct

melissa

alright so....

the male roommate (who insists that there's no way that water can get out of the radiator but i told him he was wrong and he hates being wrong) opened the valve (by valve i mean the KNOB that turns the radiator on and off). so we have SOME heat coming out of the left side of the radiator.

on the OTHER side there is what looks like about the size of half of a thumb that has a line on one side. is that what i use to bleed? we're going to try to open it later

ed wallace

yes the bleeder is opposite the shut off valve you might need a screw driver if it has a slot in it use a cup to catch the water you want a steady steam of water coming out of it

ed wallace

yes the bleeder is opposite the shut off valve you might need a screw driver if it has a slot in it use a cup to catch the water you want a steady steam of water coming out of it