Recent content by cheredenine

Ahh, i see. Unfortunately i already tried this to no effect the evening the boiler failed, and well before i posted this message. Landlord visited yesterday and tried a few things, also to no avail. He is going to organise an engineer to sort it out. Luckily he was also able to drop a...

Now you've got me second guessing which button to press! :lol: In the end we borrowed a portable heater from the in-laws and finally got a response from the landlord (he was driving back from up north..). Apparently this boiler has been known to give up before - something about a ballcock...

Its a small round red button; its normally behind the white casing; accessible if you take the cover off or just pull it forward a little at the bottom. I had another look at the button; there is some travel, its just not much. Have tried pressing it hard, but no click and red light stays lit...

Thanks for your reply! I've made sure the timer/thermostat have indeed been calling for heat whilst working the boiler controls, like you say. We get no response to pressing the red button - red light stays on and no noise at all emitted by boiler. What makes me wonder, though, is that...

Hello all, sorry to be posting urgent problems on a sunday morning, but its getting a bit chilly! We're in a rental house and have got a Wallstar oil-burning boiler which is refusing to work. It appears to be either a 12/14 or 15/19 according to the booklet we were given, though it doesn't...