my neighbour is in her 80s and living on her own, ive just found out her heating is cutting out, shes had a new boiler put in 2 years ago, then a new cylinder 2 months ago after the old one leaked, then some guy serviced the boiler on the cheap because of overheating, which only temperarily fixed the prob.
so yesterday she called me in to look at it, now i love diying but leave plumbing to the experts so am going to call my plumber in and explain whats going on for her, she gets confused explaining it.
i dont want to leave anything out so any pointers would be hugley apreciated.
details
boiler - baxi solo 3 pfl 60 link
on a closed system (was open with old boiler)
cylinder - vented
40 year old gun barrel pipes in between
controls : none that i could see
symtoms
prv - dripping, reading zero bar
expansion vessel - holding air but i have no idea how much it was inflated.
pump - sounds like its turning including on the overrun cycle
filling loop - cant find one, but i did find the old header tank in the attic has a new plastic return pipe on it with what i think is a non return valve on it and then a gate valve (open), the pipe then goes under the floor boards so it might be capped or it might be for filling.
boiler - cutting out, overheat light on, when left on for half an hour, requires manual reset.
i turned down the boilers thermostat and it overheated after an hour and an old AAV a few meters away on the flow started spewing air.
whole system gurgles and seems to me way too hot, she lives downstairs so only uses a max of 3 rads now they are either off or piping hot, also system probably has no bypass.
from reading the forum im guessing its 1 or more of these
1) to much gas flow
2) dodgey thermostat
3) dodgey pump
4) dirty HE
5) leak
and ontop of whats needed to fix the problem she will need
(a) room control thermostat and (b) new prv.
and maybe also
(c) radiator valves (d) filling loop and (e) bypass.
am i guessing right? and more importantly
is it safe to turn on the heating till the plumber comes?
(sorry for the long post, and thanks for any help)
so yesterday she called me in to look at it, now i love diying but leave plumbing to the experts so am going to call my plumber in and explain whats going on for her, she gets confused explaining it.
i dont want to leave anything out so any pointers would be hugley apreciated.
details
boiler - baxi solo 3 pfl 60 link
on a closed system (was open with old boiler)
cylinder - vented
40 year old gun barrel pipes in between
controls : none that i could see
symtoms
prv - dripping, reading zero bar
expansion vessel - holding air but i have no idea how much it was inflated.
pump - sounds like its turning including on the overrun cycle
filling loop - cant find one, but i did find the old header tank in the attic has a new plastic return pipe on it with what i think is a non return valve on it and then a gate valve (open), the pipe then goes under the floor boards so it might be capped or it might be for filling.
boiler - cutting out, overheat light on, when left on for half an hour, requires manual reset.
i turned down the boilers thermostat and it overheated after an hour and an old AAV a few meters away on the flow started spewing air.
whole system gurgles and seems to me way too hot, she lives downstairs so only uses a max of 3 rads now they are either off or piping hot, also system probably has no bypass.
from reading the forum im guessing its 1 or more of these
1) to much gas flow
2) dodgey thermostat
3) dodgey pump
4) dirty HE
5) leak
and ontop of whats needed to fix the problem she will need
(a) room control thermostat and (b) new prv.
and maybe also
(c) radiator valves (d) filling loop and (e) bypass.
am i guessing right? and more importantly
is it safe to turn on the heating till the plumber comes?
(sorry for the long post, and thanks for any help)