The aim of How To Fault Find and repair CENTRAL HEATING is to help you maintain your Central Heating system Economically, Efficiently and Trouble Free, so that you keep on saving on Gas & Repair Bills year after year.  Its fully illustrated and written  in free of jargon.

On most repairs it may even be quicker than calling a company. At the same time a lot of money can be saved by avoiding call out and service charges that the company must charge to cover overheads and operating costs.

It can help you to decide what work must be done, even you choose to get it done by a company.

When a breakdown occur: Spell out Possible Causes to help you identify the fault, and also to prevent it happen again. Repairs described in Step-by-step instructions to enable you to follow sequence of actions to complete the task with confidence. Fault Finding made easy with Fault Diagnoses charts and Wiring diagrams. Saving you Time and Effort and Pay itself many times over.

The manual has been thoughtfully designed and written by an expert with drawings and descriptions to help you understand the way in which each component in the system operates and carries out their functions. Understanding the system will be of great help when diagnosing fault during breakdown.

CONTENTS

1. How & Where to start fault finding

2. Elementary Tests to verify the faulty

3. Simple ways to make Real Savings

4. Safety First  

• Gas Safety
• Gas Safety Laws
•  Electrical Safety

5. Hot Water:

• Causes for air lock & how to remove them,
• Replacing hot water cylinder,
• Immersion heater, Scales build up,
• Ways to drain your system,
• FAULT DIAGNOSES CHART

6. Radiator & Valves:

• Ways To Increase Heat output without altering pipe work,
• Cold spots,
• Methods of balancing the system,
• Removing the radiator for decoration,
• Painting the radiator
• Repair all types of Leaks,
• Upgrading with Thermostatic Radiator Valves (TRV)
• FAULT DIAGNOSES CHART

7. Boiler:

• Heat exchanger,
• scales & fuel waste,
• Thermostat,
• Multifunctional Gas Valve, Safety Mechanism,
• Thermocouple, Overheat cut off,
• Pilot flame, Shut off & Lighting up procedures
• Chimney & Flue: CO poisoning,
• FLUE Insulation,
• Fan, Pressure Switch,
• Corrosion & Condensation,
• FAULT DIAGNOSES CHARTS

8. PUMP:

• Replacing,
• Venting,
• Speed,
• Position,
• Over pumping ,
• PUMP CARE,
• FAULT DIAGNOSES CHART

9. Motorised Valves:

• Two port zone valves,
• Three port mid-position and diverter valves,
• Fault find and replacing the defective,
• Commissioning valves,
• Saving with valves,
• FAULT DIAGNOSES CHART

10. Controls & Wiring :

• Cylinder thermostat
• Room thermostat
• Frost thermostats
• Programmer/ Timmer
• FAULT DIAGNOSES CHATS
• How the circuit works:
• One two port zone valve system
• Two two-port zone valves system,
• Three port motorised valve system
• Three port diverter valve system.

11. Water Tanks:

• Feed & Expansion tanks,
• Cold storage tank,
• Ball valve,
• Over flow problems

12. Systems Designs & Defects:

• Gravity System
• Single Pipe System
• Two Pipe System
• Micro Bore System
• Insulation
• Condensation
• Ventilation and Heat Loss

It’s like having an EXPERT “on Call” whenever you need

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