Hi,
we moved into our flat a few months back, and inherited this old conventional boiler (without any manual as ever).
Up til yesterday, there was minor noise in the middle of the night, even though HW and CH were set to off on the programmer... nothing more than a slight groan really, so thought nothing of it.
3am this morning it started making a very loud grinding/grating noise (sounded like my neighbour was drilling the walls). I swiftly turned off the power, and then double checked this afternoon where the noise was coming from.
I'm pretty sure the pump has failed, as the noise is coming directly from it as well as a fair bit of vibration. Is this likely?
Any ideas what might be the cause of the night time running, which seems to have caused the pump to fail prematurely?
cheers in advance!
Marc
Edit: meant to say as well, the pressure is down at 0.4... when it tried to get going earlier, this went up to 0.7, but dropped again as soon as the boiler decided to give up!
we moved into our flat a few months back, and inherited this old conventional boiler (without any manual as ever).
Up til yesterday, there was minor noise in the middle of the night, even though HW and CH were set to off on the programmer... nothing more than a slight groan really, so thought nothing of it.
3am this morning it started making a very loud grinding/grating noise (sounded like my neighbour was drilling the walls). I swiftly turned off the power, and then double checked this afternoon where the noise was coming from.
I'm pretty sure the pump has failed, as the noise is coming directly from it as well as a fair bit of vibration. Is this likely?
Any ideas what might be the cause of the night time running, which seems to have caused the pump to fail prematurely?
cheers in advance!
Marc
Edit: meant to say as well, the pressure is down at 0.4... when it tried to get going earlier, this went up to 0.7, but dropped again as soon as the boiler decided to give up!