REMOVE AIRLOCK FROM RADIATOR - Plumbing Tips
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- We show you how to remove an airlock from a radiator if you've followed all the other steps we have on our channel about how to get you're radiator going, you've done your TRV, you've done balancing a system, you've altered pump speed, you've done absolutely everything and it's still not going your probably going to find it's got an airlock going to that radiator or that string of radiators if they're still not working if you haven't all those things maybe you want to give them a try first.
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Please can you advice me , recently we had a new pressure boiler fitted and ever since then we can hear the pipes under the floor boards and walls tapping / rattling and banging noises . I have gone round to each radiator to see if there’s was air in them and some did have a lot of air and some didn’t , I then switched boiler back on and I have noticed the tapping/rattling/banging noise isn’t as loud but it’s still there and disturbs us during the night and mornings , do you know what the issue can be? Our old boiler was fine for 14 years with no noises whatsoever. I’ve read ppl saying there could be air in the boiler system but I haven’t found any video on RUclips that shows how to remove air from a pressure boiler apart from Americans that have a different set up as here in UK.
Please help 🙏🏼
hi your link at 0.45 secs is not working. Could you please direct me to that link?
thank you very much,
after trying forever to get my kitchen and hall rads to show any signs of warming up with no success this worked. i used a rad valve on the top outlet with a hose to outside and i worked the flow and return valves. seperatley.
it took some time to get all the air out but you could see the water stopping and flowing from the hose as the air came out
awesome guy you are!
I was struggling to get two out of an eight rad system working yesterday at my sons house - Happened across this video and now it's fixed! Top job, thank you very much for sharing your knowledge
Thank you soooo much! You have sorted a problem that I fixed myself where the plumbers intention is to replace the pump!! I can ring him now and tell him I fixed it myself down to watching your brilliant tutorial!!! Thanks again!!!
Can I just thank you for this video. Got a system with 17 rads on and could not get the furthest radiator from the boiler to work.
Used your solution and now it's piping hot again.
Thank you
👍👍👍👍👍👍
epic guide as always. I must say I've learned a lot from your 5-6 minute videos over the last 2 years to the extent I installed 6 new rads in my extension and balanced the system, had it bled via this method when one rad was blocked, etc. thx thx thx!!
Worked for me thank you sir after 4 days of struggling to get anything from hallway rad it's now heating beautifully.
Thanks for this vid (and many others). Learnt from this to get a cold rad hot again. Easy 10min job including digging out some hose and an old half inch tail. Incidentally I drained into a bucket instead of outside as I could use a short 1m section of pipe. Easier to thread onto the rad.
I have been watching your videos since i was an apprentice. Now i am self employed and have been for 3 years. But since i went self employed straight from being am apprentice. Your videos help and fill in gaps in knowledge that i never learned from previous bosses and college. Big thanks.
Thanks for this video! I fixed my rad that wasn't getting very warm. Even though there didn't seem to be much air or any muck come out, it was tickety boo when I fired it up again! Winning!
If anyone is wondering how to make the threaded hose pipe connection - screwfix do a £3.50 filling kit that contains a couple of plastic adapters that are perfect to connect some garden hose up to the rad.
+fourspoons Thanks for the comment dude and well done!
do you have a part number ?
You sir are a genius!. Been having murders with a stubborn airlock. Followed your excellent instructions, heard the airlock clear through the system. Now all roasty toasty. Great video, many thanks.
excellent channel mate! as a plumber myself i find the way u make these videos to be extremely informative and u present the information in a very clear and easily digestible fashion. From what i have seen so everything is completely spot on!
GREAT STUFF MATE!
My radiator was ice cold, but after watching you ...it's totally HOT ! Thanks for bringing back the heat !
Your an absolute legend mate. I was wrecking my head for an hour on a Sunday trying to fix a rad. 5min after watching your video. I was home bound. Cheers horse
Did exactly what you did on the video my rads two not been working fir two weeks.All sorted working fine now top class instructions thsnk you
Absolute wizard. I’ve watched a lot of your videos and you have always helped me solve them! This has worked a treat and so pleased you shared!
Thank you save me lots of hassle fixed problem in no time ,thank god for plumberparts
Hi James, just to say thanks for sharing your videos, knowledge and experience with us all, they have helped me, as a start from scratch, plumber heating engineer.
Love and peace to you and yours & Big up to Big G, love him!!!😸
Fantastic tuition by the Cat. I am complete dumb arse when it comes to plumbing however after seeing this performance YOU ALL!!!! I got my radiator full on again. Nice one Mr Cat you certainly have gots balls of steel lol!!!! Love it!!!
Very good and easy video !! Had a radiator not working for over a week, didn’t need to buy or do anything out of the ordinary, easy steps to follow thank you so much !!!
this works.
I ended up using a 1/2 hexagon male thread from Toolstation, a flexible 1/2 tap connector to 15mm speedfit, and a short bit of push-fit into a large bucket.
My rowing instructors main advice is " Oarsome " and i have to say - and so is this advice chaperooney ! Will give it a whirl but looks like this could be the solution i've been searching for for eons James.Krakatoa lawn mowers ! Cheers mate.
Nice one mate.
Just did this and the heating is only bloody working again!
I feel like an actual man.
Thanks matey you just sorted my system. Had replaced 3 rads but couldn't get rid of the airlock. Your method plus 30 minutes draining sorted it. Some amount of air came out yet every rad had water in it to start with!! Oh well. Thanks for the tip
brilliant tip. I should have checked this channel in the first place 😄, might have saved me an hour
Thanks so much. Put a new radiator in the system, and spent 2 days trying to get it full. This did the trick. It was funny, but only opening the bleed valve sucked air in. This got all the air out.
Great advice I am sick of having plumbers here costing a fortune and still left with an airlock in 3 radiators.
Used this tutorial as the gas engineer told me he could not sort out a cold rad in the house. He even suggested I repipe the whole system😂.
I used a 1/2 inch bsp drain cock instead and it done the job a treat.
Thankyou for putting up these vids. Have definitely saved me a lot of money
What a legend! This worked perfectly! Thanks plumber parts!!!!
Excellent video as always, My hero.
Followed your instructions and BAM .... now have heat in the 2 rads that were cold ... thank you ...😀👌🙏✅
Fantastic, thanks so much for this video. I had tried everything previous to watching this, and I was at the end of my tether. This was the answer, you legend!
Thanks mate, will give this a try. 4 of 12 rads upstairs not working now after a pipe replaced under house (slow leak with skirting board nail).
Do I have to close any of the other rads in the house before doing this on problematic ones? Cheers
Ive solved this a few times by turning off all the other rads so the one rad gets the full flow of the pump. Almost always pushes the air out.
This worked perfect, thanks for the tip!
Joseph Bicheno Will give this a try. Have one rad with the built in bleed vavles on the inside of the raditor and there small than the bleed key so you cant turn them or even get any grips to them.
Thank you for this it fixed my living room heater!.
Where does the trapped air go out from? You need to bleed the rads once more to expel the air lock (trapped air) out.
@@harunyahyadotorg yea, you need to keep bleeding but it can be pushed out of the air vent. You should only get this issue on an open vented system, if you have a sealed system then you shouldn't have this problem. The idea is to push the air either out of the vent or into a radiator where it can be bled.
Worked great advice thank you
Hey Presto! Air lock gone! Magic bit of advice - Many thanks
Just changed my indirect copper cylinder which is situated in a ground floor room in the kitchen. Refilled the heating system and all well, no leaks. All the rads hot on ground floor but the three rads in upper floor are stone cold. Must be an air lock some where; strange how the top floor rads are cold as generally after a drain down they get the heat first. No diversion valves on this system. Will try the hose pipe trick.
What a great video! You’ve got an amazing delivery style. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Excellent vid. I was at my wits end for my cold radiator. This solved the problem. My balls of steel are happy
ace mate removed an air lock today the way you done it thanks for your help top plumber.
Hi. Your vids are great. Watched a few to sort heating and plumbing issues. I had this issue this week, with 2 rads not heating up after topping up the system due to valve change. It worked great. But can I ask why the usual way of using the bleed valve will not fix the air lock issue?
Not enough flow to blow out the air, methinks...
LOL " Like a CAT" that was funny .Thanks for the videos
Filing off the taper on the bleed key is a top tip - thanks!
Always helps!
Sweet vid dude i normally run it through the d.o.c below the rad if that's absent i crack a nut on the lockshield or trv :) but i like this way
Thanks
Ok so for us not so knowledgeable. What's different from this and just going round bleeding rads? Both just get the air out of the system don't they?
Done! Thank you so much... 😁
Awesome mate ! worked the bomb - just moved rad +- 2 metres and was panicing
Changed rad following your great vids so sorted "Hold tight throughout the night !!" yeah baby thats what I`m talikin bout !
Great video..is it the same procedure for a towel rail, only the bleed valve is at the top, and a little more fiddly getting the excess water out the towel rail, due to the angle of the bleed hole ?
I am getting air in my system after a night. System seems fine and I have done everything.
20 secs in the vid and I already love this guy!
Amazing content very informative thank you so much. God bless 💚
Great video and so well explained. I had this issue and your method worked a treat. Such a great chanel. Thanks again.
Thanks!
very helpful cheers. been tearing my hair out iver two rads downstairs not getting hot. but your reasons for air in the system is missing the one reason there is air in my system. n thats due to me draining it down to install.a new rad ;)
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Excellent, this worked and saved me a fortune.
No worries! Pay yourself on the back! PP!
***** hi dear our onr room heating not working
I can tell this man has done a good amount of powder in his time
Edit: sorry the video was helpful and he was good was just my first thought 😂
Just found this vid. Straight and simple. well done
Wow. You could be a genius sir! Thank you for your vids.
Not having a go, but learning to balance a system properly will alleviate this problem and can be done much quicker. If proper balancing techniques dont work, then the system has a blockage somewhere within a pipe/radiator and will require chemical or power flushing. I do enjoy some of your videos though, like I said, not having a go.
Very true mate! 😎
@@plumberparts This worked for me on several branches of an old and somewhat complex heating system! Thanks buddy!
Thanks mate!!! Could it also be possible to connect the hose you have done to a bib tap and back flush the rads up to the f& e tank? Will that eliminate an airlock?
I did this and thought it didn't work went for a coffee then back in the room 20mins later and my rad was toasty .Thanks very much 👌👍
This video saved my weekend! haha thank you
Brilliant as always,👍👍💯
Don't forget to tell anyone who is trying this that if they have a sealed system they will need to top up afterwards, good video though, sometimes I do it the other way round, on a gravity fed system I have blown water through the rads using a garden hose to shift air,
thank you so much for your help,all the rads are nice and hot now thanks againe from mozza.
Thank you for sharing this extremely helpful video. Much appreciated.
I’ve got to say your videos are brilliant. However sometimes I wonder if they’re actually aimed at plumbers & DIY audience cus I keep hearing words like:
-“drop your ball valve“
-“not enough suction“
-“remove your bleed nipple“
-“screw this in“
-“take your hose outside“
-“connection not good enough between your hose & the nipple“
-“make sure the ball valve drops down nicely & doesn’t get stuck up“
-“you’ll hear air & water rushing out of this large hole we got here instead of this tiny little hole that used to be here“
-“pressure will disipate out of your hose by itself“
-“remove your spigot“
-“sucking onto your thumb”
& so on.
These all extracted from this video😂🤣😂😂
can you do this just bleeding the rads and inserting water through the filling loop repetitively until pressure is stabilised and you can't get any more air out from the rads?
Scrap my comment about inlet meant the lock shield but after I go a new one it did same at some point. I had to un do the drain valve and seem to remove a lot of air so it's working again!! I've had to replace a rad . 3 lock shields so far and unsized 2 TRV,s going well lol!! I've managed to bleed most of the rads now as got a decent key.
+James Baillie Good luck mate!
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one a nice 600 quid rad at john pye for 30 quid!! Getting tomorow
Great video! Love the rapid fire editing. Very informative and entertaining. Cheers from the US.
can't thank you enough for your video's love how you are epic keep up the fantastic work 😃
thank you very much sir now I fix radiator thanks thAnks and lot of thanks
great explanation and easy solution to irritating issue :)
Sweet will definitely try this out
cavitation is basically bubbles which is effectively more air
I remember weeks of doing this with my system but it made no difference And I was mistified . The rads are plumbed with 15 mm Hep2O but with copper near the solid fuel boiler. I ended up dismantling the pipework and found a dead fly stuck at the first Hep2O support sleeve. It was small enough to go through the copper pipe but not that sleeve! After that I fixed some old net curtain over the top of the expansion tank.
I have two large twin panel radiators downstairs, that barely come on at all. I'm wondering if its airlock in them, as I have already checked the thermostats on each one, and the flow rate valve on the other side. I've tried bleeding slowly with a key, and that used to work but not anymore. I also have an at times loud knocking noise in the pipes above the room, sounds maybe nearest the cylinder tank which quitens down a little during the day.
You are a legend 👍 this was exciting high stakes plumbing 🤠
Dude, I think someones looking through the back door! Slender Man, run! Also, love the zoom-in on the bleed, awesome stuff.
Hi can you do a video, of setting up radiator system ,ie balancing rads and balancing the system from the 2way valves , i have a open vent system, when my hot water is on and radiator on the hot water robbs the heat off the radiators, vise visa. I need to know how to balance valves, 1 for the hot water and the other for the rads, please
James I've not a problem with a noisy hot pipe having just installed a disabled bath for an elderly lady.
It seems to be coming from a 90 into a 90 copper elbows.
Any thoughts please??
Thankyou
This guy is a god! Thanks mate.
The man said hold tight 🤣🤣
Hi, we have two radiators one in spare room and one in ours which are both cold we,ve tried bleeding them the pipe from the ceiling is hot but only is hot up to the valve of the radiator I,ve checked both valves and they are both working OK the radiator is cold bottom and top I,ve even tried turning all the valves off on all the radiators so as it pushes the hot water thro to the radiators that won't get hot but still no joy do you think there could be a big build up of sludge in the bottom of the radiator that,s why it's not getting hot any info will be a great help. Many thanks Steve
Honestly trying to understand what the correct pump speed is for a system seems like rocket science. I think even my plumber has just guessed
i am from Greece and we had these keys, gold or silver, to remove the air from a radiator. Now i live in Poland and in my flat there is an old radiator, two pipes up n down with only one valve, like a daisy flower. Should i unscrew this like i used to do with the keys??
I think I have this problem on one radiator. The rad is on ground floor with a feed and return coming from the floor above due to location. I've removed the bleed valve to take a look and it looks like a 10mm thread. Is there a particular fitting you could recommend to attach a hose? I was thinking maybe using a 10mm flexible tap tail connected to a garden hose fitting or similar.
Brilliant video
priceless videos mate, after trying this to no avail i'm now at my wits end.
I have a boiler on ground floor, where the 2 bedroom rads and 2 bathroom rads are, and a sole radiator upstairs. The rad upstairs doesn't heat up.
Following the flow of water from the boiler, the warm water bypasses the pipework to the upstairs rad and only serves the downstairs rads. I fitted a stop cock to isolate the lower rads but the upstairs rad still doesn't heat up. any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Great video do you have to turn all other radiators off while you do these steps?
Hi. I took a vertical rad off the wall recently to decorate behind it, put it back and now on the 3 panels out of 7 are getting hot (on the TRV side) Tried bleeding but only water coming out, not air. Could this be an airlock or something else? Also where can i get the 1/2 inch hose adapter?
Do you have any advice for doing this with traditional rads with the older style screw in bleed valves?
+Craig Stewart Hmm, send us a pic of what you've got to our Facebook and I'll try and help you there! PP!
@plumberparts Thanx a lot for this vid.....i can finally sleep peacefully
How is replacing a bleed vent with open ended hose any different? Both do exactly the same thing. The air you hear is just the air that entered the rad when you drained it to put the hose on.
Great video! Thanks! Quick question - one radiator in the house is stone cold (pressurised system). Both flow and return pipes are also cold. TRV seems OK. AllOther rads in house are lovely and hot. Is an airlock likely to be the problem if BOTH pipes are cold.
+Alex R Air lock!
+plumberparts Tried removing the airlock, but it turned out to be a horribly kinked 10mm barrier pipe (instead of fitting an elbow - they just bent the pipe 90 degrees after the straight coupling). 8-year old house and I doubt the radiator ever worked - it does now!!!! Thanks again for all your great videos!
Thanks for your help.You are a star
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