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Description
Radiator Flow Boosters solve the problem of lazy radiators.
If you have one or more lazy or cold radiators — on any system type — then the V1 Radiator Flow Booster is likely the fix.
Many heating system have one or more radiators that never quite warm up. They are often the radiators furthest from the boiler — the end of the run, where the flow arrives tired. You’ve bled it, you’ve balanced the others down to feed it, and it’s still lukewarm while the rest of the house cooks.
Whilst you may have been told the only fixes are a bigger heating pump or new pipework, a small booster on the right pipe does it.
The V1 Radiator Flow Booster is based on the same pump technology as our shower boosters, adapted for central heating. It fits on 22mm or 15mm pipe and can be hidden anywhere along the flow to of from the problem radiator or radiators — under floorboards, behind a panel, wherever is convenient. It speeds up the flow of hot water to bring the radiator back to temperature.
It works on any system type — combi, gravity, mains or unvented — because a lazy radiator is a flow problem, not a boiler problem.
Q: How is this different from balancing my radiators? A: Balancing shares the existing flow around; it can’t create more. When the flow simply runs out before the last radiator, the V1 creates the flow that’s missing.
Q: My radiator is cold at the bottom, not overall — will this fix it? A: Cold at the bottom might be sludge and it might need a flush. Cold or slow-to-warm all over, especially far from the boiler, is a flow problem — you need the V1.
Q: Where does it hide? A: Anywhere on the or return flow pipe — under the floor, in a cupboard, behind the kickboard. Once fitted you shouldn’t notice it at all.