Recent content by Aleboy564

Okay, that kinda makes sense to me :) Just spoke to british gas, apparently im still in my "cooling off period" sure theres a heating joke there somewhere. As I havent been in long, so im thinking I might be better cancelling that and getting a local plumber in?

I'll try bg. So this morning, turned the shower on, pump ran but no flame, left the shower running and turned the centre switch (power) off then on. Boiler fired up and I had my hot shower. When finished flame went off and pump stopped running. Then out of curiosity about 10 mins later I turned...

As an extra to my last, when. Turned the hot on the pump/motor came on but no flame.

I really appreciate all your help!! I couldn't hear a click with the centre off. Would I hear it over the sound of the water? Then as you described, boiler fired for a min then turned off fine. But when I run hot water it doesn't fire again so water goes cold. Just a side note, but when...

No, just ran hot and the second from left was warm. I noticed boiler fired up for about 5 secs then shut off. Even though hot tap was still on. I can still hear the boiler motor/pump now even though hot is off and there's no flame if that makes sense.

Thank you for the boiler compliment. I have British gas homecare. Do you think they'd fix it? Or just try sell me a new one?

Hi. I've recently moved house. The boiler is a vaillant vcw sine 18 t3w. It was installed in 86. Ive so far worked out it has a immediate hot water switch and an instant hot water. When switched to the instant and you turn the tap on no hot water comes. On the immediate it seems to heat the...