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no heat to radiators unless hot water on?

suddenly my radiators will not get hot unless the hot water is switched on as well.
David Morris, January 2010
There's a valve - it directs water to the rads or to the hot water system and sometimes to both - sometimes they get stuck. Diverter Valve / Mid position Valve...

http://www.centralheating-diy.co.uk/images/3_port.jpg

Your boiler engineer will soon sort it out for you...

Good luck...

Peccavi, January 2010