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Turning radiators on

Hi, so I tried to do this in my room, but nothing happened :frown:
Sorry for my ignorance in all things plumbing amd heating lol, but should it simply be a case of turning the tap, or should i be doing something else?
There is a proceedure to follow at my uni if its faulty but i thought i'd check first before i make a t*t if myself with a silly Qu :wink:
The heating is quite probably controlled centrally - either you will be able to access the boiler yourself (it'll be somewhere in your accommodation block) or it will be looked after by a warden. It may be that your university haven't yet deemed it cold enough to allow the boilers to be switched on, so it'd be worth asking whether this is the case or not, I guess.
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eee-tee
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Ah, I thought this might be the case, I will have a look at the boiler. There's certainly no shortage of hot water so I guess its just the radiators that need sorting. That's why i thought they should be on if the water was
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Persipan
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Not necessarily. The heating and hot water may run on the same system, but that doesn't mean that because the hot water is on, the heating will be (imagine if you had to have the heating on, every time you wanted hot water - even in the middle of summer!)
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If you're in halls or a uni owned flat, they sometimes operate on institutional rules whereby the heating isn't used between April and the end of October. I know that when I was in halls, the radiators didn't work until the end of October-ish, and I think the heating went off at the end of April, regardless of how cold it went before or after then! I seem to remember it being the same at school too. Might be worth just checking with reception whether the heating is on yet, before you report anything as broken.
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FireDeuce
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I am so so excited I have heating today! I realised I hadn't turned the radiator on, and i was so happy my room started warming up :smile:
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lazza
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fyi if you have the "touch" buttons on your wall you have to press them to get the heating on... was just watching loads of people come over to reception to be told that
my heating isnt turned on until November, check with the uni
What might be the case is that it needs bleeding, but my radiator was painted so the paint blocked the bit where the key goes in so get someone in to check, mines getting done tomorrow, I cant wait to have heat!!!
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ooze
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lazza
fyi if you have the "touch" buttons on your wall you have to press them to get the heating on... was just watching loads of people come over to reception to be told that

We had this too. Little blue box on the wall you had to press to get 30 mins of heating.
you are lucky.....my halls are way too hot and the radiators arent even on!.

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