Hi All
I have a fairly old combi boiler which is under a british gas contract which works perfectly fine (no problems in the recent cold weather up here in the north) EXCEPT that since the last service in the summer, whenever we get extremely windy weather the pilot gets blown out (has happened twice). The first time I got it going OK on my own but yesterday was a problem & Bgas came & said the thermo couple was faulty, replaced it & we are now OK.
I just wondered if there was anything that could be done to stop it happening in the first place. It has never blown out before ever (although the flue is in quite an exposed position on the back wall) & I do recall the Bgas engineer in the summer saying he had to nip the gas pressure down a little as my emissions were borderline or something-I wondered if that made the pilot more susceptible to being blown out ?, when I spoke to the gas guy yesterday my problem was attributed to "the age of the boiler" which seemed a little crazy & general.
ANy thoughts appreciated
Cheers
I have a fairly old combi boiler which is under a british gas contract which works perfectly fine (no problems in the recent cold weather up here in the north) EXCEPT that since the last service in the summer, whenever we get extremely windy weather the pilot gets blown out (has happened twice). The first time I got it going OK on my own but yesterday was a problem & Bgas came & said the thermo couple was faulty, replaced it & we are now OK.
I just wondered if there was anything that could be done to stop it happening in the first place. It has never blown out before ever (although the flue is in quite an exposed position on the back wall) & I do recall the Bgas engineer in the summer saying he had to nip the gas pressure down a little as my emissions were borderline or something-I wondered if that made the pilot more susceptible to being blown out ?, when I spoke to the gas guy yesterday my problem was attributed to "the age of the boiler" which seemed a little crazy & general.
ANy thoughts appreciated
Cheers