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

date posted 2nd January 2004 15:51

Excellent cheers Mike.



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Subject: RE: FN-FORUM: [OT] gas boiler problem


>
> Dont know the answer to your problem, but this place has saved my bacon a
> few times this year;
>
> http://www.plumbingpages.com/forums/index.cfm
>
> HTH
>
> Mike
> Happy new Year!
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: 02 January 2004 15:45
> To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: FN-FORUM: [OT] gas boiler problem
>
>
>
> 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
> [EMAIL REMOVED]
> http://dittodesign.co.uk
>
>
>
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