Should your heating be failing to work properly in the aftermath of a warm summer period, there are several measures you can take to try and address the issue, before enlisting the services of a professional plumber or heating engineer.
radiators won’t heat up after summer
Firstly, check which setting your central heating system or thermostat is on. Especially so if you haven’t used the heating with any great regularity for a while, you might find you have adopted an unfamiliar schedule. For example, the heating might be set to switch on at set intervals rather than being in constant use. If so, your radiators obviously won’t heat up immediately when outside of the specified time zone. Switch to a constant setting so you can initially check if the heating will work properly, and if you prefer, move back to the timed setting, later on, to make sure your heating devices turn on when they should.
Inspect the radiator valves next. If a radiator or heated towel rail is failing to switch on at all, or not heating up to an adequate level you know it is capable of, take a close look at the valve which mediates the radiator temperature. You or someone else in the household might have turned the dial down or off entirely when the weather was warmer throughout the summer. It would also be particularly prudent to pay close attention to the valves in rooms that aren’t used with any great frequency.
And you can check what temperature your thermostat is set to as well. The majority of central heating setups work in cohesion with a thermostat and switch on automatically when the temperature drops below a certain level defined on the thermostat. If your radiators haven’t turned on straight away, it might just be that they are not cool enough to drop below the thermostat’s set temperature. Just turn up the temp temporarily if you want to test if your radiators are working after summer. (So many temps)…
