My Ideal Mini C24 boiler tripped the main circuit breaker this morning. Not sure if it was the hot water or the central heating that did it.
Boiler is about 3.5 years old, was Corgi serviced on 5 November 2007 (apparantly only thing wrong was pressure needed adjusting, which he did), and had been unused for a few days over Christmas, until yesterday evening (when it was working fine).
I reset the circuit breaker, but the boiler's standby light didn't come on at all.
I then changed the boiler's external fuse and the standby light then did come on, doing 1-second flashes on and off for a very short time. A flame started when the hot water tap was turned on, but went out after a few seconds.
Turned the external switch where the external fuse is, off and on again. Tried boiler again, but again the standby light only came on (1-second flashes) for a short time, and this time no flame at all.
Left it for a few hours before trying again: this time the standby light came on, one-second flashes, and the flame lit up, and the boiler produced enough hot water for a bath. Also the CH came on for about half an hour. Then the flame cut out and the standby light went off.
This is first problem boiler has had (apart from recently the shower does not get hot enough unless you run it slowly. The bath has only ever been hot enough if you run the tap slowly. The Corgi engineer said if the shower wasn't hot enough it wasn't the boiler, but the internal workings of the shower (Triton Combi HP) that was at fault.
The pressure, I have noticed during this problem, keeps changing. It starts off about 1.25 bars then goes up to 2 bars before flame cuts out and standby light goes off. The temperature seems to be around 35.
I hope this is enough info for a very nice person to tell me what the problem is, and if it's something I could fix or would I have to get an engineer out?
Thanks very much!
Ruth
Boiler is about 3.5 years old, was Corgi serviced on 5 November 2007 (apparantly only thing wrong was pressure needed adjusting, which he did), and had been unused for a few days over Christmas, until yesterday evening (when it was working fine).
I reset the circuit breaker, but the boiler's standby light didn't come on at all.
I then changed the boiler's external fuse and the standby light then did come on, doing 1-second flashes on and off for a very short time. A flame started when the hot water tap was turned on, but went out after a few seconds.
Turned the external switch where the external fuse is, off and on again. Tried boiler again, but again the standby light only came on (1-second flashes) for a short time, and this time no flame at all.
Left it for a few hours before trying again: this time the standby light came on, one-second flashes, and the flame lit up, and the boiler produced enough hot water for a bath. Also the CH came on for about half an hour. Then the flame cut out and the standby light went off.
This is first problem boiler has had (apart from recently the shower does not get hot enough unless you run it slowly. The bath has only ever been hot enough if you run the tap slowly. The Corgi engineer said if the shower wasn't hot enough it wasn't the boiler, but the internal workings of the shower (Triton Combi HP) that was at fault.
The pressure, I have noticed during this problem, keeps changing. It starts off about 1.25 bars then goes up to 2 bars before flame cuts out and standby light goes off. The temperature seems to be around 35.
I hope this is enough info for a very nice person to tell me what the problem is, and if it's something I could fix or would I have to get an engineer out?
Thanks very much!
Ruth