Re: FN-FORUM: [OT] gas boiler problem

date posted 2nd January 2004 14:26

I had a bit of a problem last year with my central heating having just moved in to my new house. What had happened in my case was that the water in a tank which stops air getting into the pipes had been turned off by the previous occupiers (unknown to me) and the water that should have been there had evaporated after about 4 months. This resulted in air getting into the pipes and building up to create a block so that no water could circulate. I had to turn the large nut on the pipe very gently in small increments until the air escaped and then fill up the water tank again. Could be that the water in the tank is leaking thus causing air to get in. I'm no plumber by any stretch of the imagination but I hope this info may be of help. If that fails I would get a plumber (corgi qualified) in.

Les




on 2/1/04 2:44 PM, [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:

>Hmm... almost a year to the day since I had another household problem
>thrust itself into the limelight, I get another.
>
>I suddenly have no heating or hot water.
>
>I've fiddled with the boiler a little and spent an age trying to find info
>online, but all I get are gas boiler affiliate sites and very little useful
>information. Google really has gone down hill.
>
>Anyway, I believe it to be a problem with the water pressure. After trying
>a number of things including swapping fuses.
>
>The pressure guage has two dials, for one of them it states not to let the
>needle
>drop below '1'. It was slighlty below this but I fixed it, having been shown
>how to previously by a plumber.
>
>The second guage is on zero, I think this is a temperature guage so that's
>right.
>
>I've just been to let the dog out into the back garden and spotted a trickle
>of water
>running from the overflow pipe of the boiler. Now I did fiddle with the
>water
>pipe screw under the boiler so I may of set this off. But fiddling again
>makes
>only a slight difference in the amount of water trickling. In fact checking
>it again
>I find it is pouring out. I've set the small screw back to it's original
>position but it's
>made no difference.
>
>The final detail that convinces me it's the water pressure is that when I
>switch on
>the heat manually the burner does not come on, but the pilot light stays
>steady.
>So I believe the poor pressure has tripped a switch?
>
>Now in the great tradition of this forum and it's many OT posts, can anyone
>help me out? :)
>
>tia,
>
>Darren Yates
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>http://dittodesign.co.uk
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