boiler pilot light must relight daily or more..

[josh1e]

Hi.

We have an issue with the pilot light not staying lit. We have to relight it daily often 2-3 times per day. (we only used h/w only most of summer).

Prior to this, we had an issue with it leaking, 5-6 engineer visits to get it resolved - around 3-4 months ago.. Not sure if it's related.

I've included a photo, I had 2 short vids of the boiler in action (1 from ignition, the other once warm (15-20 minutes later) but it won't let me post them. Flames are blue but cant really see that from photo, not sure what the debris is that heats up / glows, looks like small rocks..

any ideas? don't plan to do anything myself, just hoped to get some insight into what an engineer is likely to tell me is wrong..

Boiler is a Potterton Promax HE.

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[petit_pablo]

What's the fault light that's flashing?
Your boiler doesn't have a pilot light.

I would hazard a guess it's going to be an overheat issue and the boiler will need new seals fitting.
The glowing bits are just small bits of debris on the burner.

 

[josh1e]

Hiya. thanks for the reply. fault light? there are no obvious lights on our model.. (just a grey reset switch) they maybe under the cover, but I've not had this off. (corgi or gas safe approved engineer only nowadays I think?)

Didn't realise our's didn't have a pilot light, in that case, it means the boiler fails to ignite / or fails to remain ignited when called for, for h/w or heating.

 

[petit_pablo]

Yours has an automatic ignition.

There could be a whole number of reasons for the problem, whether it's failing to ignite, going out during operation or sensing a fault at the end of operation.
Time to call an RGI in, preferably one that knows these boilers.

 

[josh1e]

Thanks mate. will do. any idea on the age of these boilers?

 

[petit_pablo]

Anywhere up to 8 years old I should think.