Diverter Valve leaking on Vaillant EcoTec Plus 831 boiler

[Gorguruga]

Gorguruga I think your best bet is to see if Steel is local enough to do it for you, he's a bit of an expert on these sh*tboxes

Call him for a price then tell him that you won't pay more than £60 labour for it - works everytime!!

Lol.. Might have to give that a go but I'm in London and I don't think he's close by. Plus he'll probably charge me double for asking foolish questions.

 

[Gorguruga]

"gunge, rust like it's 20 years old but as you look upwards at the rest of the boiler, it looks like almost new. There's a pipe also which looks clean and new as it extends to the top of the boiler, but looks really old and limescaled up at the bottom."

Sounds like the chrome gas pipe is corroding and this is usually caused by condensate leaking into boiler, check the plastic corrugated pipe, usually holes where it touches the hot coper flow pipe, I have seen the gas pipe corrode through and leak gas, get a fixed price repair from BG or vaillant, they'll fix all faults for less than £250

Thanks for the info Wull, I'll most probably try to book an engineer tomorrow.

 

[Gorguruga]

Hey fellow aspiring plumbers, are my eyes deceiving me or does this installation guide have everything else but how to change the Diverter Valve?
http://www.vaillant.co.uk/downloads/ecotec-installation-servicing-2009-261448.pdf

 

[Phill Peck]

Dunno, what's an installation guide