How to Balance Your Radiators | Save Money and Increase Heat

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  @suzettehill8679 · 3 years ago

  I am an 81 year old woman who is totally moronic about anything technical A freezing cold radiator in my study - but miraculously after watching your video I have made it work! Heat again - fantaasic!

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  @Cloppa2000 · 2 years ago

  60yrs old and never knew about this!<br>I wonder how many central heating fitters actually balance a customers heating system for them?

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  @samjames8628 · 1 year ago

  2 years after posting. One cold rad. Was about to call a plumber. Watched this vid. We have 11 rads in the house, too complex I thought. Drafted a message to the plumber but then thought I would give it a go. Turned on hot water, went round the house to try and gauge the order the rads got hot. Went around and turned all the valves off, turning on 1/2 turn for the first and then incrementally more for rads down the line. Voila, rad which was cold is now hot. Felt compelled to write, your guide saved us the cost of a plumber. Very pleased with myself too

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  @RolyHough · 3 years ago

  In 15 yrs we have had British gas in on our service plan to service and every year we tell the 2 main room radiators don’t get hot. The answer is every time, Turn heating on and close down upstairs rad untethered said cold ones get hot. Then open them.<br>Hahahhaaa 15yrs of shit.<br>I saw this and every lock shield valve was fully open. So at almost 70 and disabled I had a go.<br>Now every radiator is hot in 15 minutes. Even the 2 useless ones. All temp valve no set on low (1.5 to 2) and house is toasty warm, thermostat down to 20 degrees and magic.<br>Thanks DIY Man your a star. Shame you have to be Corgi to device a boiler. Thank You. Roland

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  @cmkessell · 2 years ago

  One question: isn&apos;t it necessary to fully open all of the TRVs first (to ensure that only the lock valves are restricting flow)?

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  @brianbennett5918 · 3 years ago

  When opening any valve fully,always turn it back slightly,will help it from seizing open 👍🏼

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  @neilhansen3365 · 2 years ago

  This guy should be teaching this stuff to apprentices. So clear. Brilliant. Great job sir.

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  @justyasi8721 · 3 years ago

  Thank you this is helpful. Question though: if your system is so unbalanced that some rads are not even coming on at all, how can you figure out the order of rads?

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  @andrewknight9080 · 3 years ago

  If you are able to set a 12C difference between input and output using an infra red thermometer, do you still need to determine which radiator is 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and so on in the system?

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  @tomahawk2000 · 6 days ago (edited)

  Just bought my first house and your videos are so helpful. Thank you.

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  @tambohang69 · 3 years ago

  Thanks for the video which is really helpful but I have a question. I have a four bedroom house and total of 15 radiators. What&apos;s the easy way to find out which is the closest and the furthest radiator from the boiler?

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  @AlexRogers-t7f · 10 months ago

  Radiator in bathroom has been cold for 3 years! 10mins of your videos and its fixed! Great stuff, thanks!

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