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Thanks for all your help, looks like i got to run yet more pipes. :lol: Mike

System details:- condensing boiler with fully pumped Heating & H/W open vented Due to proposed building works at home I want to move the hot water cylinder from upstairs, to downstairs next to the boiler, but to save work I would like to move the existing cold feed and the open vent from the...

No prob's Kev I feel the same as you regarding the boiler :lol: MANDATE Thanks for info will find thread and read Mike

Thanks for the advice regarding the boiler and yes I have all the threads on the boiler but at the moment a boiler change is not an option plus if you ask what to get to replace it with all you get told is, anything is better that that!!!! any suggestions???? Back to my original question how...

Sorry I thought I had given you all you need to know. Have changed or added nothing. It is loudest approx 5 sec after boiler start up (time taken for water to travel from boiler to pump?) Noise goes after a couple of minutes. boiler is an infamous Baxi Barcelona that still has times...

I am sure I can hear air in the CH/HW system at the pump on start up, after a time it does diminish but not go completly. I have tried bleeding all the air vents and rad's also the pump but all I get out is water. does anyone have any ideas on what might be causing this, how to bleed the air...

I'm back again :cry: I thought it was all working ok and it has been all week but now it's back to it's I'll only work in 15 sec bursts. I have no idea why it started to work but it did and it's been perfect. so has anyone any ideas were to start looking again or is it time to call in an...

Bill Yes i'm sure it's wrong as it didn't used to do it ( for the first 3 years of use) and if both the Hw & CH want heat then all it does - as the pump is permanently running - is to take the heat out of the HW cylinder and push it round the CH and then neither gets as hot as it could do. Also...

Thanks for all your replys. Yes ChrisR I accept what you are saying, and I agree that if you do not know what you are doing you should not touch, but I would like to think that I know my limits, and when it's time to call in the experts. Although I do sometimes wonder who is the expert...

ChrisR Yes it is the exactly the same on HW & CH and I changed the pump at the beginning of the year. Suggestion for a better boiler are? ollski When I took the fan out this morning it all looked clean and I could see no obstruction in the flue but I will have another look tomorrow...

Hi I have a Baxi Barcelona boiler that is driving me round the bend in that it has an intermittant fault the symptoms are it will fire up for approx 15 sec, shut down for 3-4 min then fire up again for approx 15sec and will keep on doing this untill I either get fed up and shut it off or it...