I have an external grant boiler which was installed in August 2007 along with a complete re plumb of the entire house. From the beginning the system was noisy but I was advised that this was because it was new and things would settle down once all the air was out of the system.
After 18 months I started to have real problems: boiler not firing, pressure dropping, some days no hot water. I have the boiler services regularly, have had the oil tank drained and cleaned and pipe work flushed through. At Christmas the boiler stopped and had a couple of valves including the PRV changed along with the jets and filter plus a lamp and switch. Since then my plumber and boiler engineer have been out 6 times, the most recent being last weekend. The pressure release valve is leaking again and once again needs replacing.
I really had hoped that by installing a new boiler i would have some hassle free years without huge bills and not be looking at replacing it in under 5 years of installation. Looking online it appears a number of other people have had issues with these external boilers losing pressure.
Can anyone one please give any advice as I really don't understand boilers and as a single recently unemployed mum of two could do without paying out hundreds of pounds in a regular basis just to keep this boiler firing?
Would appreciate any advice or knowledge that anyone could share.
Helen
After 18 months I started to have real problems: boiler not firing, pressure dropping, some days no hot water. I have the boiler services regularly, have had the oil tank drained and cleaned and pipe work flushed through. At Christmas the boiler stopped and had a couple of valves including the PRV changed along with the jets and filter plus a lamp and switch. Since then my plumber and boiler engineer have been out 6 times, the most recent being last weekend. The pressure release valve is leaking again and once again needs replacing.
I really had hoped that by installing a new boiler i would have some hassle free years without huge bills and not be looking at replacing it in under 5 years of installation. Looking online it appears a number of other people have had issues with these external boilers losing pressure.
Can anyone one please give any advice as I really don't understand boilers and as a single recently unemployed mum of two could do without paying out hundreds of pounds in a regular basis just to keep this boiler firing?
Would appreciate any advice or knowledge that anyone could share.
Helen