New House - Glow Worm 65-80 relighting piliot light

[sqldan]

We just bought and moved into a new to us house. Our first morning (today) the boiler was working and the central heating and hot water came on fine, however mid morning (and half way through my shower) the boiler stopped.

The boiler is a Glow Worm 65-80 that was installed over 30 years ago and it looks to me as if the pilot light has gone out.

The boiler is in the basement next to the gas meter and before this morning I could see the gas meter ticking to the sound of feeding the pilot light. Now, the gas meter is not moving which is why I assume it's the pilot light.

I know nothing of plumbing and frankly I'm just hoping someone can help me relight the pilot light!

Please help!

Dan

 

[Dan Robinson]

Think you're confusing your gas and electric meters.

There should be instructions on the boiler case for relighting the pilot.

 

[Agile]

The vendors should have given you instructions if they are not written there.

But knowing its an old and inefficient boiler one hopes you budgeted for replacing it now or very soon.

Tony

 

[alphazulu]

If you remove the front cover of the boiler, the instructions will probably be stuck to the inside of it. If, not, check heating and HW are off at the programmer and turn the knob on front of the boiler to "off". Kneel down in front of the boiler and you will see the gas valve at the front, turn this to "off". If you look inside the boiler you should see the burners and a brass thermocouple sticking up on the left hand side. Light a match and turn the knob on the gas valve to "pilot" and hold it down. Then put the match near the thermocouple and the pilot should light. You need to hold the knob down for about 30 before turning it to "on". If the pilot goes out when you turn it to "on", try again as the thermocouple has to be warm before the valve can be set to "on". If it works, replace the cover, turn the knob on the front to your set temp and turn heating/HW back on.

These thermocouples can fail but are universal and cheap (£10?) so it shouldn't cost much to get a gas safe man to fit a new one.

I had the same problem when I moved into my house and it went out a few times in the first month but has been on ever since. Still planning on replacing the boiler though...