Hi all,
My gas central heating stopped working on Friday. It's an Ideal FF360 boiler which is linked to a Heatrae Sandia Megaflow immersion heater tank.
Plumber called out said the fan in the Ideal boiler had gone. He diagnosed this by checking if any air was being blown out of the exhaust outlet on the outside of the house and quoted £280 to change the fan (£40 callout for that day + £140 for the fan + 2 hours labour to fit it). So anyway the 'backup' electric immersion heater in the Megaflo was also not working, so no hot water at all. I was just reading posts on here looking for common problems and noticed the safety shutoff on the stat had popped out so I pushed it back in. Then went out for a few hours - came home and CH and HW working again.
Could this have been a coincidence or is the stat on the Megaflo cylinder capable of stopping the gas boiler from working for central heating? I don't know if they are linked but it would kind of make sense...
Based on what the plumber said and the fact that the Ideal boiler is 14 years old, has no service history and is non-condensing I plumped for getting a new boiler which he has quoted £1585 all in and I already paid 25% deposit. Now I'm a bit annoyed because I'm thinking there was nothing wrong with it and will probably still have to pay to get the real problem fixed with the Thermostat on the Megaflow. So I'd really appreciate it if anyone can tell me if that can shut of the CH or if it was just coincidence that it came back on after I pushed it back in.
My gas central heating stopped working on Friday. It's an Ideal FF360 boiler which is linked to a Heatrae Sandia Megaflow immersion heater tank.
Plumber called out said the fan in the Ideal boiler had gone. He diagnosed this by checking if any air was being blown out of the exhaust outlet on the outside of the house and quoted £280 to change the fan (£40 callout for that day + £140 for the fan + 2 hours labour to fit it). So anyway the 'backup' electric immersion heater in the Megaflo was also not working, so no hot water at all. I was just reading posts on here looking for common problems and noticed the safety shutoff on the stat had popped out so I pushed it back in. Then went out for a few hours - came home and CH and HW working again.
Could this have been a coincidence or is the stat on the Megaflo cylinder capable of stopping the gas boiler from working for central heating? I don't know if they are linked but it would kind of make sense...
Based on what the plumber said and the fact that the Ideal boiler is 14 years old, has no service history and is non-condensing I plumped for getting a new boiler which he has quoted £1585 all in and I already paid 25% deposit. Now I'm a bit annoyed because I'm thinking there was nothing wrong with it and will probably still have to pay to get the real problem fixed with the Thermostat on the Megaflow. So I'd really appreciate it if anyone can tell me if that can shut of the CH or if it was just coincidence that it came back on after I pushed it back in.