Hi everyone,
I'm new to your site and I am an rgi although most of my plumbing life has been in Australia. And the many boilers old and new over here leave me scratching my head on occassions.
The problem I've encountered is the above mentioned boiler which is serving an openvented heating/hotwater system had tripped out to a F5 fault code - I've reset the over heat stat inside the boiler and got it going no worries.
The boiler is very noisy whilst working up to temperature - More noisy than I've ever heard one of these boilers. It seems to modulate quite heavily coming upto temperature and then it quietens down to gentle hum.
The customer reckons its slowly been getting worse for the last month or so (called me when it broke) and she likens the noise to a washing machine (but not as loud).
To me (with the covers off) it sounds like a noisy motor or bearing. But it's hard for me to pin point.
MY THEORY is it could be the fan on its way out but I'm not sure because it's as quiet as a mouse at temperature - but that could be because its not working as hard ??
And would the over heat situation have arised from the fan??
The last guy who serviced it (two years ago) wrote in his report he had reset the over heat stat and carried out full service including opening up the heat section, cleaning and replacing the necassary gaskets.
Do these boilers regularly overheat and trip the stat.?
I am going back next week with a gasket kit and will do full service and and recommision to MI standards but I am not sure about the noise and wether i should replace the fan while I'm there.
Any advice from you fellas would be much appreciated and if you'd like any more info let me know.
Many thanks in advance,
Jon Cox.
I'm new to your site and I am an rgi although most of my plumbing life has been in Australia. And the many boilers old and new over here leave me scratching my head on occassions.
The problem I've encountered is the above mentioned boiler which is serving an openvented heating/hotwater system had tripped out to a F5 fault code - I've reset the over heat stat inside the boiler and got it going no worries.
The boiler is very noisy whilst working up to temperature - More noisy than I've ever heard one of these boilers. It seems to modulate quite heavily coming upto temperature and then it quietens down to gentle hum.
The customer reckons its slowly been getting worse for the last month or so (called me when it broke) and she likens the noise to a washing machine (but not as loud).
To me (with the covers off) it sounds like a noisy motor or bearing. But it's hard for me to pin point.
MY THEORY is it could be the fan on its way out but I'm not sure because it's as quiet as a mouse at temperature - but that could be because its not working as hard ??
And would the over heat situation have arised from the fan??
The last guy who serviced it (two years ago) wrote in his report he had reset the over heat stat and carried out full service including opening up the heat section, cleaning and replacing the necassary gaskets.
Do these boilers regularly overheat and trip the stat.?
I am going back next week with a gasket kit and will do full service and and recommision to MI standards but I am not sure about the noise and wether i should replace the fan while I'm there.
Any advice from you fellas would be much appreciated and if you'd like any more info let me know.
Many thanks in advance,
Jon Cox.