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Those who said ignition kit and gas valve appear to have been correct. That's what the engineers eventually fitted and it seems to have sorted the problem out. They fit both on the same day, so can't say if it was one or the other, but regardless it's sorted. I did wave all your suggestions...

UPDATE Thanks to all who have posted. Still no solution, but i've got the senior eng's direct number now and he has promised to work through all the possibilities until we find a solution. If we do I shall let you all know!

ok - you've all lost me now with ohms and volts, but engineer number 5 (visit 6) came out today. Checked gas valve and pressure and apparently ok. condensate trap clean. waste pipe possibly blocked as it is at a funny angle but he blew it through and thinks it is clear now (if it was blocked...

thanks. apparently it is 'clean' i assume this means they've checked the condensate trap. nobody has mentioned the gas valve so i'll ask the next poor sap who comes along to try to fix it. any more suggestions?

I have an ideal icos boiler displaying an intermittent 'LF' fault code. It will restart on pressing reset, sometimes it will run for a few days, other times will go off mid cycle, other times run to the end of the cycle and then not reset. A parade of engineers has been out it has been cleaned...