I apologise in advance if this has been covered before, but I've spent half an hour searching posts and havn't found anything yet.
I woke this morning to a relatively cold house, though still with hot water to taps. It appears that my Worcester Heatslave oil combi boiler has decided to break down 5 days before christmas, nice timing !
On investigation inside the boiler, with the first apparant thing being a strange buzzing noise, I pretty much decided that the diverter is not diverting anymore. I've manually pushed a lever accross that appears to have engaged the heating again. Which is where I become confused.
If setting the diverter manually to allow heating and apparantly hot water at the same time, what is NOT going to work properly ie what are the implications ?
I've also done some reading on the topics here and accross the web and it appears most diverters are fixed by replacing some rubber valve that controls the feed based on demand. Ok, I understand that, however, is my diverter completely different then ? It has an electric supply and was buzzing like a servo was about to fry !
I've contacted the guy that normally does repairs, but he's up to his kneck in it until well into January, so, I'm trying to figure out if I can repair this and to what extent, parts need replacing.
Cheers for any help in advance.
I woke this morning to a relatively cold house, though still with hot water to taps. It appears that my Worcester Heatslave oil combi boiler has decided to break down 5 days before christmas, nice timing !
On investigation inside the boiler, with the first apparant thing being a strange buzzing noise, I pretty much decided that the diverter is not diverting anymore. I've manually pushed a lever accross that appears to have engaged the heating again. Which is where I become confused.
If setting the diverter manually to allow heating and apparantly hot water at the same time, what is NOT going to work properly ie what are the implications ?
I've also done some reading on the topics here and accross the web and it appears most diverters are fixed by replacing some rubber valve that controls the feed based on demand. Ok, I understand that, however, is my diverter completely different then ? It has an electric supply and was buzzing like a servo was about to fry !
I've contacted the guy that normally does repairs, but he's up to his kneck in it until well into January, so, I'm trying to figure out if I can repair this and to what extent, parts need replacing.
Cheers for any help in advance.