Hot Water But No Heating — or the Other Way Round
It’s a peculiar one: taps run piping hot but the radiators stay cold, or the heating’s fine but there’s no hot water.
Practical, no-jargon advice from our Gas Safe registered engineers across South Manchester and Cheshire.
It’s a peculiar one: taps run piping hot but the radiators stay cold, or the heating’s fine but there’s no hot water.
The boiler’s firing, the thermostat’s up, but the radiators are stubbornly cold. It’s a frustrating one — and the good news is the cause is usually easy to narrow down once you know where the cold is.
If you’ve noticed the pressure needle sitting lower than it should — or your heating has gone off altogether — you’re not alone.
A CP12 is the record that proves the gas appliances and flues in a let property have been checked and found safe. Here’s what it is, what it covers and what to do with it.
Modern boilers show a fault code when something isn’t right - a letter-and-number like F1, E119 or EA on the display. It looks alarming, but it’s genuinely helpful: it tells you and your engineer roughly where to look. Here are the families of codes we see most often.