Recent content by aldoggett

Perhaps Baxi named it Barcelona in recognition of the comparison to the noise and hubbub of that great City ! We had it getting noisy once, it used to explode upon ignition - which was heartening and a little too much of an early morning wake up call for me. The gas man came and blew on some...

Hi Simon, we did get the fault remedied, but it took two weeks with a non-functioning boiler. As soon as the engineer took the cover off it was obvious that the short, curved section of pipe in which the thermostat and safety probes are mounted was totally corroded, thanks to a really slow leak...

What a familiar tale. We had our Barcelona (I think they now refer to it, or the replacement as the Baxi 100 HE) installed about 3 years ago and in March it started doing the same as described. It seemed to get better, but now, as soon as it's cold and the poor little thing has to do some...