Medium
Noises in CH system on Chaffoteaux Serelia 24 MFFI

Your heating system is struggling due to trapped air or low water pressure, which is causing the banging or whooshing noises you are hearing.

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This fault should be looked at by a Gas Safe engineer within the next week or two. It may get worse if left.

Technical description

Air presence in C.H. system or Insufficient pressure

DIY fix possible

Check the pressure gauge on the front of the boiler; if it is below 1 bar, use the filling loop to top it up to 1.5 bar.Turn off the boiler and let the radiators cool down.Use a radiator key to bleed each radiator starting from the ground floor up to the top floor to release trapped air.Re-check and top up the pressure gauge to 1.5 bar again if necessary.

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