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    No heating problem! Oil-burning central heating boiler

    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...
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    No heating problem! Oil-burning central heating boiler

    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...
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    No heating problem! Oil-burning central heating boiler

    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...
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    No heating problem! Oil-burning central heating boiler

    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...
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    No heating problem! Oil-burning central heating boiler

    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...
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