Recent content by iangrant

Thanks very much indeed for your replies. Much appreciated. It sounds like something lifting and dropping - hence the tennis ball comparison - rather than a rattle, if that's any use. It's a very consistent sound: it's an old house on a hill, so there are lots of rattles when it gets windy, but...

I apologise for bumping a very old thread, but I've searched and searched and this is the only place where I've heard the same problem that we're experiencing described: the sound is exactly that, a tennis ball being dropped from a small height. On the off-chance that you're still...

Cheers, Tony. That's not really a problem...I can get it going again easily enough, after all. But is it safe to have the boiler going through its ignition process without actually getting a spark? When it goes wrong every now and again, it just seems to pump gas through endlessly while it...

Hi, everyone. Since Saturday night, I've had a sporadic problem with my Sime Friendly Format 80E combi boiler. It works fine mostly...but from time to time, it doesn't light. It goes through the whole process, without getting a spark to light the gas. I can get it all going again manually...