Oh my god, i am a chef in a really busy kitchen and when i asked my Landlord to fix my broiler, no hot water or heating system, he said he could only help in 3 DAYS! he was supposed to come to my flat today and fix it but NOPE. watched your video, got myself together and fixed the problem! You saved my day! Never been glad to have a proper shower ( with no buckets) ahaha. Thank You.

Totally appreciate this, it's saturday morning, freezing and no heating... no pressure, re-pressurised it and yay it works :D *this lady is a happy bunny*

@ultimatehandyman

9 жыл бұрын

I'm glad the video helped Thanks for the comment

I've used this footage twice now to reassure myself before doing it, and while I have repressurised a boiler before, I referred to this and felt totally at ease sorting my boiler.

Thank you very much, for the best video on re-pressurising a combi boiler! Saved my life on this seriously cold January late evening. My totally neglectful landlord (Matt Bennett) left no instructions or guidance on this task and left the filling loop attached also. I'll keep my eye on that pressure for now (can contact Private Housing Sector IF needs be). Originally had to provide my own fire alarms, and after 22 years tenancy, finally he provided them, but this morning, billowing smoke from burnt porridge (while trying to figure why no hot water, no water pressure), that new fire alarm didn't operate (my old FireAngel would have, so looks like I have to replace this new one with a premium one myself)! I'm afraid I would have been left to freeze if it hadn't have been for your video! What a day, but all's well that ends well. Thanks again.

@ultimatehandyman

4 жыл бұрын

I'm glad the video helped Thanks for the comment 👍

I love you! Me and my fiance, Have just moved into our first house. In was in a terrible state when we got it so have had to do everything you can imagine. I think you have pretty much showed me how to do all the jobs we have done. So a big thanks goes out to you as without these videos we would be living in slum like conditions. THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Thank you! Came home last night to a freezing cold flat and no hot water- I figured it was because the pressure had suddenly dropped, so a combination of this video and a call to my uncle (who sounds a lot like you!) sorted it all out- thanks for taking the time to upload such a useful video!

You, sir, have come to my rescue on two occasions, both of which I thank you for greatly. This may be complete simplicity to some people, but then my job might perplex them so swings and roundabouts I guess! In any case, many thanks indeed.

@ultimatehandyman

9 жыл бұрын

David Brown I'm glad the videos have helped David. Like anything in life it's simple when you know how! Thanks for the comment

Thanks a lot for this video! I noticed that there was no pressure in the radiators when I bled them and knew that I need to re pressurize the system but had no clue how. These boilers have too many pipes and valves and I didn't want to break something. Your video helped me fix my problem in 5 minutes. Thanks again!!!

An excellent instructive video that enabled me to re-pressurize my unvented heating system today after it suddenly stopped working due to excess air being automatically expunged over a long period of time. Many thanks!

@ultimatehandyman

9 жыл бұрын

You are welcome Thanks for the comment

THANK YOU. After watching so many videos that didn’t tell me which valves I needed to turn on, your video was the one that sorted out the issue for me. Heating at last!

@ultimatehandyman

3 жыл бұрын

Great to hear! Thanks for the comment 👍

Thanks.. Came home to a cold house, thought i would have to call the land lord but watched this and sorted in 5 mins flat!

Thanks so much! My central heating pressure fell and boiler stopped working. After waiting two days and no show for an engineer, I looked this video up. Its been such a life saver. Works perfectly and so simple, even a girl like me could figure it out.The flat is now warm, its 2 degrees C outside!

@ultimatehandyman

9 жыл бұрын

You are welcome Thanks for the comment

Found the filling loop in the kitchen draw,and thanks to your video did the job in about 2 mins this morning,all radiators are now boiling hot,cheers my friend :)

Great video..we have just had a new combi boiler fitted and after watching your video, I contacted British Gas who fitted it to inform them that they had left the pressure loop in place..I have been informed that there is no longer any requirement to remove the loop and that it can stay in place..thought some of your viewers may like to know that once again, there has been a change in the regulations.

Never knew it was that easy, had trouble with my boiler for about 2 weeks then fixed it in 5 minutes using this video... Thanks alot.

You Beauty!!! Just got home from a weeks holiday to find the pressure had dropped on my Ariston E Combi 38 leaving us with no hot water. Contacted my home emergency cover provider only to find my boiler is not covered from beginning of May to end of August...what's that all about!!!! It's a Bank Holiday weekend so resigned to no hot water for us till next week then I thought I'll just try KZread and thanks to Ultimate Handyman fixed in less than 5 seconds (The filling loop was still connected) Cheers mate your a top bloke.

@ultimatehandyman

10 жыл бұрын

Glad the video helped :-) Thanks for the comment

Thanks a lot - hot water was cutting out when we turned on cold taps and my upstairs radiator wasn't bleeding fully. Both problems now solved - much appreciated !

@ultimatehandyman

9 жыл бұрын

You are welcome ;-) Thanks for the comment

Freezing cold day, home alone, was starting to get stressed - thank goodness for this! Thanks for the nice clear video!

@ultimatehandyman

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment ;-)

Thank you so much. got home from Christmas meal with family to find boiler not working and flashing up numbers and letters, Manual told me pressure problem, manual was unhelpful didn't tell me how to make it right. I KZreadd it saw your video, fabulous, central heating back on and working well, everything is great. You're the man!! Take care

@ultimatehandyman

9 жыл бұрын

I'm glad it helped ;-) Thanks for the comment

Thanks for the video. I've just had a new boiler fitted and the fitter didn't really explain how to do this. Now I can sort my own heat system out instead of calling for a heating engineer. This is going to help my stress levels!!

This was really useful. Helped two panicked people who didn't have the first clue about how any of this works. Thanks very much.

@ultimatehandyman

8 жыл бұрын

+MightyJez You are welcome Thanks for the comment ;-)

Thanks for this. Winter is Scotland is freezing and my radiators would only heat about 1 foot infront of them (seriously). My radiator was a fraction off 0 Bar, now I am roasting and I owe it all to you!

Thanks for this! Wife woke me up at 6am to sort it, watched this & did it so easily

Thank you so much for sharing. Most straight forward instructions I've found. Helped us so much tonight. House is warm again yay!

@ultimatehandyman

8 жыл бұрын

+bride of the monster I'm glad the video helped ;-) Thanks for the comment

Adding the part about bleeding the radiators fixes so much problems. Well done mate.

@ultimatehandyman

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment, Dave 👍

Thanks handyman this saved my bacon this morning only had my boiler fitted a few days ago and this saved me calling the repairman back out again costing more money i don't have.

Mate, You rock! Just got home from hol to find house cold and CH down. All it needed was topping up and bleeding. Thank you thank you thank you.

Thank you for this! Came home to a freezing house, couldn't make head nor tail of the manual. You helped me to get my heating back on in minutes!

@ultimatehandyman

9 жыл бұрын

I'm glad the video helped ;-) Thanks for the comment

@HCF29

9 жыл бұрын

Its 3° here and I've had an awful day. You were a beacon of hope in a cold cold home haha ;) thanks!!!!

I just wanted to say this was a real help and probably saved me a lot of money by not having to take it to call someone in and now am able to do it myself. Used the video 2 or 3 times and very well explained.

@ultimatehandyman

9 жыл бұрын

kirk9580 I'm glad the video has helped. Thanks for the comment ;-)

You saved my night. Gotta say without your brilliant video and description would have been without heating or hot water for the day!

@ultimatehandyman

10 жыл бұрын

Glad it helped, thanks for the comment

Thank you! My boiler is a bit different looking but with your simple explanation I was able to easily and safely work it out and will have a warm house when i get up in the morning! many thanks :)

Thank you so much for this - very clear instructions and easy to follow, especially for someone who has never had to deal with anything like this before.

@ultimatehandyman

7 жыл бұрын

You are welcome. Thanks for the comment

You just saved me a call out charge on a bank holiday during lockdown , and probably saved my life . After bleeding a rad in my new house,the pressure went. Single woman with no clue now clues up. The pipe was already connected! Best sort that out then. I wondered what those caps were, now I know .

@ultimatehandyman

4 жыл бұрын

I'm glad the video helped Thanks for the comment 👍

Fantastic video.. Made it very easy to understand and after draining my system, I couldn't work out why it wasn't working, and this has sorted out!! I have a lovely warm flat once again!!!!!

2 female uni students, a low pressurised boiler sorted thanks to YOUR help. THANK YOUU

Thank you for the video! It's a saturday night and there's no chance I could afford to get a plumber out here at this time, you've just saved my evening!

Many many thanks for great video. Our boiler failed to come on this morning and the pressure gauge was showing zero after we'd bled it yesterday evening. We couldn't face potentially several days in the cold before an engineer could come out so we thought we'll have a go ourselves. Your video was the only one to advise about the disconnected pipe which we'd noticed dangling so we connected it and eventually found the valve to turn the water on (with a pair of pliers as somewhere along the line an engineer had removed the original knob). The boiler fired up after waiting a few seconds for the water to circulate and we breathed a sigh of relief now that the house is warm again. And yes, we did remember to disconnect the pipe afterwards. Many many thanks again.

@ultimatehandyman

9 жыл бұрын

You are welcome. I'm glad the video helped ;-) Thanks for the comment

Thank you, was perfect and explained everything so simply and clearly even I managed to sort my boiler out. I was losing hope and was going to call someone out but now I don't need to. Brilliant.

@ultimatehandyman

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it helped Thanks for the comment 👍

your videos are consistently great and very educational - Thank you - keep up the great work !

@ultimatehandyman

7 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you find the videos useful ;-) Thanks for the comment

Thanks for your advice. you just saved me on call out fees. radiators wouldn't work, thought my thermostat stopped working. but this fix worked. ☺👍👌👏

@ultimatehandyman

8 жыл бұрын

+Abdul Haleem You are welcome.Thanks for the comment

ive got to say a big thank you ive no heating for 3 weeks your a life saver

@ultimatehandyman Searched everywhere for 2 days for a solution and this was so simple. Top man. Thanks!

Fixed the boiler without having to call out the angry gas man. You sir, are a legend :) Thank you!

thanks so much, this helped me with my configuration which has label on it to state open both valves to pressurise the system, i was not sure about this and your video helped alot, radiators now bled and system re-pressurised .... thank you

@ultimatehandyman

Жыл бұрын

Glad it helped 👍

I bled my radiator and repressurised my boiler after watching your vids. It saved me from bothering my landlord - thanks for posting!

Cheers for this video, mate. Had a low pressure problem so I followed your advice... except I slightly overdid the flow, causing it to go to 2.2 bar. However, I managed to relieve the pressure and it popped back down to 1 bar. Thanks again :)

@ultimatehandyman

8 жыл бұрын

+Emperix You are welcome ;-) Thanks for the comment

jsut watched all your videos thanks for taking the time and effort to make them. i cant seem to understand why people dislike them as they are so informative thanks :)

thankyou so much. We bled a radiator dry after an excploding bleed valve and didn't need to call out a plumber to refill the boiler after wtching the video. Thankyou!

@ultimatehandyman

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it helped Thanks for the comment 👍

thank you very much for the tips, couldn't make head or tails of the user manual for the boiler but could see that the pressure had dropped since last time i checked.

brill, thanks. and you've already answered my question about why the filling loop should be removed!

Thank you very much. We've saved our lives this winter. We didn't have to call in a technician.

@ultimatehandyman

6 жыл бұрын

You are welcome Thanks for the comment

my boiler stopped working tonight and i have 2 young kids your video was a life saver :) only problem i had was when i tried pressurising the system the gauge didn't move at all so i think its broken i only put enough pressure in to get the boiler running again and get me through the night until i can get an engineer out tomorrow, many thanks

@ultimatehandyman

10 жыл бұрын

You are welcome, I am glad it helped ;-)

Thanks! This and the radiator bleeding video have been incredibly useful!

Thanks alot for posting this vid. We switched the central heating on this morning and noticed the pressure had dropped below 0.5. Couldnt remeber how to fill it back up but your vid came to my rescue. Thanks again you probably saved me £30 in call out fees much appreciated. although on my bolier the filling loop still remains is this illegal!!!!

Thanks for taking the time to do this tutorial, helped give me a better understanding.

Thank you so much! This was easy and straightforward to follow, fixed the problem.

@ultimatehandyman

9 жыл бұрын

I'm glad the video helped Thanks for the comment

Top videos and easy to understand! Looking forward to doing my Glow-worm combi and Rads tomorrow haha.

Thanks for this video. You've helped a complete novice sort the problem.

@ultimatehandyman

5 жыл бұрын

You are welcome Thanks for the comment

I successfully repressurised the boiler today. I had been turning the valve too far past the closed position, amateur mistake but at least I now know for next time. Thanks for all your help.

You've just saved me so much money...Thanks a lot for posting this video...

Thanks for reply.am i ok to bleed rads one at a time.imagining just thinkin i might of let a lot of air get in. Plumbers are so hard to get hold of!!

Really useful video & has enabled me to get our boiler working again, superstar! Thank you so much!

Brilliant informative video....saved me hours of head scratching!!! Many thanks

Hi, i am fitting an upstairs heated towel rail and need the system drained to do .Im assuming that i drain the downstairs radiator till the level is down and check by opening the valve on the old radiator (which is removed) before fitting the new connections? I can see with the help of your vid how to re-pressurise system but im not sure how to "restart" the boiler afterwards, if it will have closed down due to pressure drop? Thanks in advance

thanks this was very useful. I have an integrated filling loop on the bottom of my boiler. I have I got the boiler back up to 1.0 on the pressure gage. Also just checked and bled my radiators and there is no air in any of them. Hot water is coming out of the tap but my radiators are not getting hot. They were working before the pressure went below 0.5 and the boiler turned itself off. Any ideas? Thanks

When exactly did it become law to remove the filling loop, my system was upgraded 12 months ago by a gas safe engineer and nothing about this was mentioned.

Great video and has helped us understand the pressure valve.

Great video, looking at it feels so simple ! In my Saunier Duval ISOFAST F 28 E I could locate the black lever and turned it in the correct direction(as per the manual) still the pressure hasn't increased, its at 0.6 most of the times and once it slips down to 0.5 its shuts itself off....any suggestions ?

good stuff mate! I have to replace a radiator downstairs to the other side of the room. Im going to bend the existing pipe donwards and fit an isolation valve compression fit, then run pipe under floor. I will drain system. I have lousy water pressure, when refilling the system do I turn the boiler on? Or do I wait until refilled to 1bar, then keep on filling as it drops?

Great video thanks. I just had to move a rad .do i have to pressure to 1 bar then bleed and then pressure back to 1 bar. My question really is do you have to bleed rads after you first get it to one bar.

Great video. Do you know how I can increase the heat of my bath shower water? Even at max (Main combi boiler heat knob turned to max and bath taps all the way) still not quite hot enough. The kitchen sink uses same combi boiler but it piping hot. Thank you

Thanks for this, totally saved me from an ice cold shower in October!

thanks , been waiting on council engineer coming up , since before xmas day , had no central heating. so thought id look on youtube & now thanks to ultimate handyman , heatings back on & now going to call the council & fire a rocket up their arse !! thanks for great video

@ultimatehandyman

9 жыл бұрын

I'm glad the video helped Thanks for the comment ;-)

Thanks for the reply. I think someone (helpful inlaws) may have put more pressure in. I've turned the boiler off and it remains just on the RED it appears to drop ever so slightly if I turn it back on. If I bleed a radiator water comes out instantly. I also have that anti rust stuff in the system,How long should I bleed it for?

Cheers mate, your fix worked an absolute treat!!!

@ultimatehandyman

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment 👍

Thank you so much, I have heat again :) So easy to follow too! Thanks I will have a warm christmas!

This video got me out of trouble today....thank you very much

thanks for this ,the manual with the boiler is rubbish, found the pressure value on the filling loop but you said this had to be unconnected and this is fixed in place and had to use a screw driver to open it. lol , thanks again

Great clear video. Thanks and thank heavens for You Tube

@ultimatehandyman Cheers. So if its rising past three is it an urgent problem? what kind of problems can that create?

Hi UltimateHandyman thanks for this video, I did manage to increase the pressure but I now have the pressure to about 2 bar when nothing is on and it goes as high as 3,3.5 when both heating and water is on I am worried if I have done something wrong and not quite sure what the correct positioning of the value. I am really worried that it might now blow up the boiler or pipes etc.. please confirm if this is normal ??

hi ultimate handyman ive put my filling loop on but the pressure isnt going up please have you any ideas what could b wrong?? thanks for your time

@ultimatehandyman One of my radiators makes a really loud whistling sound whenever my heating is on, would bleeding the radiator solve this or is it some other issue? thanks :)

Perfectly explained! Thanks a lot and very easy instructions.

@ultimatehandyman

9 жыл бұрын

I'm glad the video helped. Thanks for the comment

I got a wood gasifier it is recomened that it has 1.5 bars but when i heat up the system at the peak it climbs to 3,5 pressure can something happen to my radiators or pipes? it has a valve when it climbs over 3,5 bars it starts to leak water out of it slowly. so am i safe? or something bad can happen if i burn the boiler too hot.

Hi, thanks for posting this video. Clear and easy to understand :) My boiler is still not working correctly however...My combi boiler is now and 1 bar and the radiators have been bled and yet I have no hot water or heating. There is a red LED which flashes (and no ignition or flame) when I try to turn the heating on. For the past week actually we've only had hot water if I've turned the heating on-any ideas please?? Thank you very much!

hi m8..i've got a halstead ace combi boiler..and it leaks from the over flow pipe which is outside...so it keeps losing pressure and goes down to zero...the guy that fitted it left the filling loop on so i just keep topping it up...how can i stop it losing pressure...any ideas...thanks

Changed 1 of the radiators in the house!! Will I need to top up the boiler?

Do you have to turn boiler off before adding pressure using the filling loop? My boiler is a isar he30, the pressure valve is just below the 1 bar.

Thanks for the ultimate rapid reply. One last question, on my boiler it doesn't have taps to turn the valve but it looks like you need to use a flat-head screw driver to turn the valve on and off. Does this sound correct?

What state are my rads in while doing this or dord it matter? Baxi boiler with pressure below 1bar, after 1 rad lost heat when turned others on.

you just saved my life tonight. thank you:)

thanks for useful video... by the way, is there any practical danger repressurising the system when it's still hot? (apart from pressure value bias)

Wow! This was so helpful and exactly what I needed! Thank you so so much! ❤️❤️❤️

@ultimatehandyman

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful! 👍

Hello, I would really appreciate some advice please. I have an ideal classic gas boiler rs30. I am still getting hot water no problem but my central heating has gone off. I have bleed the radiators which were fine, no air. I have shut the boiler down and then back on and still no heating. I can not see a pressure valve anywere to check the pressure, to be honest I cant really afford to get some one out so would realllllllly appreciate ay tips on getting it going. Thank you

You are my hero!! This is the 2nd time one of your videos has saved me £££. Thanks so much for uploading this info for helpless women like me lol :-)

Nice vid... Your forum is also very helpfull. I'm in there quite alot.. Thanks.

Thank you so much for this tutorial mate! YOU DA MAN!

In my manual it says I need to take the cover off after filling and bleeding, and open the automatic air purger one full turn, then open the pump shaft to release air from that, then close all up (this is after the system has been drained). The thing is the auto purger doesn't rotate, it goes up and down and was in the up position. Should this be down? The pump didn't have any air in, water came out when I opened. The system isn't loosing pressure any more so maybe if it ain't broke....?? Thanks

hello sir is the filling loop between the return pipe and cold inlet pipe.