boiler has packed it in

[nick182]

hey guys,

i recently had an electrician to fit a 2 gang 2 way dimmer switch and after a few hours of him playing around turning the power on and off a few times... i was wondering if it were possible for him to have blown up the boiler aswell???

thanks.
nick

 

[ericmark]

In the main no. A boiler should be able to be switched off at the mains without damage as would happen with a general power failure.

There are exceptions where neutral and line are crossed for example but unlikely some one working on lights could do this for a boiler supply.

Items like fridge and freezer do have problems with power being switched off and back on within 5 minutes. Boilers can also have a problem when switched off without running cool down. The same as a PC turned off at mains will need to run a check disk when restarting but 9 times out of 10 nothing goes wrong.

So even where there is a small chance of him doing something to effect the boiler it is unlikely you will be able to show it was something he did.

 

[EFLImpudence]

Is the boiler on the same circuit as the lights in question?

When you say "blown up"; what, exactly, has happened to the boiler?

 

[333rocky333]

if the boiler pcb was on its last legs constant on and off could blow it, hear quite a lot about pcb problems with boilers

Worth posting make of boiler on the other forum to see if it is subseptable to pcb's blowing

 

[PrenticeBoyofDerry]

Did the electrician do any testing of the lighting circuit and is the lighting circuit also where the boiler is powered from?
Has the boiler actually blown or showed any faults, does it need to be reset?

 

[ban-all-sheds]

What kind of electrician needed 2 hours of playing around and turning the power on and off a few times just to fit a dimmer switch?

 

[ricicle]

What kind of electrician needed 2 hours of playing around and turning the power on and off a few times just to fit a dimmer switch?

A chancer ?

 

[ebee]

I sometimes get blamed if folks tellys no longer work when I have rewired their house

 

[Iggifer]

my mate changed my consumer unit recently and afterwards my mac wouldn't boot up.

Entirely my own fault for not shutting it down / removing the plug but it was working fine before we started and didn't afterwards :/

 

[ban-all-sheds]

So if your Mac had failed to boot after a power cut would you regard that as Apple's fault, or your electricity supplier's?

 

[Iggifer]

That would depend what the problem with it not booting was.

In this case, it was Western Digital's fault as my boot drive died

Or you could still say it was my fault for not having a UPS

 

[ban-all-sheds]

That would depend what the problem with it not booting was.

I disagree.

In this case, it was Western Digital's fault as my boot drive died

I'm glad you recognise the fact that WD ought to be able to make a disk drive which doesn't fail when power is lost.

Or you could still say it was my fault for not having a UPS

You could, but a UPS should be to guard against service interruption or loss/corruption of data due to the inability of some people to write decent operating systems and filesystems, not because things might break.

 

[Iggifer]

I'm not going to get into a Windows / Unix / Mac discussion as a) each has their own merits and b) it's not really relevant to the OP