Heating broken - Ideal Classic boiler not lighting

[redrabbit]

Hello Everyone,

I noticed yesterday that even with the thermostat set to 30 that no heating was coming through at all.

Our Ideal Classic FF350 boiler isn't lit either. I've tried:

- turning on and off by the mains and the actual on/off switch
- pressng the overheat stat button - however it doesn't seem to be a button as it doesn't go in very far - does that make sense?


The knob is set to 6 which is the highest, all power is on. When I reset it or turn it on and off, I can hear it click a few times exactly as if it is about to light, but it doesn't.

Any ideas?

 

[Boilerman2]

Go to the airing cupboard - or wherever the pump is located, can you hear the pump running??

Is the boiler working when set to Hot Water only?

If the answer to these is YES NO then you have a Boiler fault which should be attended to by a RGI

If the Answer is NO NO then you have a Control fault that should be looked at by a competent person

if the answer is NO YES then as above.

Hope this helps

 

[twgas]

Go to the airing cupboard - or wherever the pump is located, can you hear the pump running??

Is the boiler working when set to Hot Water only?

If the answer to these is YES NO then you have a Boiler fault which should be attended to by a RGI

If the Answer is NO NO then you have a Control fault that should be looked at by a competent person

if the answer is NO YES then as above.

Hope this helps

and if it's NO, NO, NO, NO, NO ,NO, YES, Jim, from dibley, was your engineer and cannot be trusted!

 

[redrabbit]

Go to the airing cupboard - or wherever the pump is located, can you hear the pump running??

Is the boiler working when set to Hot Water only?

If the answer to these is YES NO then you have a Boiler fault which should be attended to by a RGI

If the Answer is NO NO then you have a Control fault that should be looked at by a competent person

if the answer is NO YES then as above.

Hope this helps

Thanks a lot for your help.

Very strange this but:

Woke up this morning and found that the fuse had been tripped and was in the OFF position, so all heating and hot water was not working.

I flicked it back on and the boiler pilot light came on for the first time. YAAAY! However, I adjusted the thermostat, turning it off then on and now the pilot light won't come back on and the heating still doesn't work.

For some stupid reason I can't seem to get it re-lit either!

In answer to your questions:

The hot water in the house is working - heating isn't.
I think the pump is working

 

[Boilerman2]

Suspect Motorised Valve actuator- the sychronous motore may have failed which caused your MCB to trip and is now open cct, this should be checked over and if necessary replaced