Probably the expansion vessel has little or no air in it....if you can drop the boiler pressure to zero and then put a car tyre pressure gauge onto the expansion vessel valve, you need 10 psi in there.... so out with the foot pump!
John
October 2009
I can answer this question...
central heating guage on the boiler rises to 2.8bars when heating is on?
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