Got one of these about 3 years back, occasionally it did an F26 fault, cleared itself after a short time, then did not do it again; Then the next year it did it again but did not rectify itself.
Anyhow the installer has disappeared of the face of the earth, so I called a buddy, he did not want to touch, because he is not corgi, but had some strange theories. Any how I suddenly remembered that it was frosty the first time it had happened and it was frosty this time. Went outside to look at the condensate discharge pipe. It appeared to be frozen up (quite a long run round the side of the house). Scratched my head then got a bucket and disconnected the siphon pipe inside and ran it into a bucket.
The fault went away, but my bucket kept needing emptying, until the frost went so I reconnected to the outside...
Looked at the Instruction book, and it says that the outside of the pipe _must_ be at least 32 mm. The installer had used 22mm pipe all the way out side!
I would so like to talk with him..
Not knowing what to do, I called a plumber, he was too busy, so very kindly told me to 'lag' the outside pipe, instead of replacing it. This I did and (touch wood) all is well since!
Any how my question is on another matter, sometimes, despite having the downstairs stat turned down low (I use this as a master control, no timer programing even switched on) I have noticed the darn thing switches on in the middle of the night and makes me very hot in bed!
Is this normal?
Anyhow the installer has disappeared of the face of the earth, so I called a buddy, he did not want to touch, because he is not corgi, but had some strange theories. Any how I suddenly remembered that it was frosty the first time it had happened and it was frosty this time. Went outside to look at the condensate discharge pipe. It appeared to be frozen up (quite a long run round the side of the house). Scratched my head then got a bucket and disconnected the siphon pipe inside and ran it into a bucket.
The fault went away, but my bucket kept needing emptying, until the frost went so I reconnected to the outside...
Looked at the Instruction book, and it says that the outside of the pipe _must_ be at least 32 mm. The installer had used 22mm pipe all the way out side!
I would so like to talk with him..
Not knowing what to do, I called a plumber, he was too busy, so very kindly told me to 'lag' the outside pipe, instead of replacing it. This I did and (touch wood) all is well since!
Any how my question is on another matter, sometimes, despite having the downstairs stat turned down low (I use this as a master control, no timer programing even switched on) I have noticed the darn thing switches on in the middle of the night and makes me very hot in bed!
Is this normal?
