Hello folks,
Sorry for this rather basic ignoramus question but anyway here goes. We have a Worcester oil fired combi bolier and recently did up our utility/boiler room and installed a sink, which was plumbed in by our excellent local plumber. What we are finding is that operating the hot tap on this sink does not always seem to fire up the boiler, even when the boiler is all switched on and geared up for action. However, as soon as we operate the hot tap in the kitchen or bathroom the boiler fires up as normal and we then get copious hot water through the new sink in the utility room.
Although the new sink is close to the boiler, the hot water feed to the washing machine and the new sink comes down from somewhere under the upstairs floor.
All of which has set us wondering, where does a combi boiler pick up information on flow/temperature/pressure in order to switch on the boiler when needed? We had assumed that all of this was within the boiler itself but maybe there are sensors in the system somewhere, hidden under the upstairs floor and which are being missed by the feed to this new sink?
Not a huge problem, all we have to do is run the hot water tap in the kitchen or bathroom and the boiler fires up and provides hot water to our new utility sink but it is a bit of a puzzle, any thoughts on this? We would have gone back to our plumber but he is stacked up with so much work we did not feel wed should trouble him.
Thanks
Sorry for this rather basic ignoramus question but anyway here goes. We have a Worcester oil fired combi bolier and recently did up our utility/boiler room and installed a sink, which was plumbed in by our excellent local plumber. What we are finding is that operating the hot tap on this sink does not always seem to fire up the boiler, even when the boiler is all switched on and geared up for action. However, as soon as we operate the hot tap in the kitchen or bathroom the boiler fires up as normal and we then get copious hot water through the new sink in the utility room.
Although the new sink is close to the boiler, the hot water feed to the washing machine and the new sink comes down from somewhere under the upstairs floor.
All of which has set us wondering, where does a combi boiler pick up information on flow/temperature/pressure in order to switch on the boiler when needed? We had assumed that all of this was within the boiler itself but maybe there are sensors in the system somewhere, hidden under the upstairs floor and which are being missed by the feed to this new sink?
Not a huge problem, all we have to do is run the hot water tap in the kitchen or bathroom and the boiler fires up and provides hot water to our new utility sink but it is a bit of a puzzle, any thoughts on this? We would have gone back to our plumber but he is stacked up with so much work we did not feel wed should trouble him.
Thanks