Recent content by kirkle

Brave I was not. I failed to read the diyNOT forum title properly and posted without anticipating such extreme responses. It was the DHW heat exchanger full of gunk and I was told it will need replacing soon. Looking at what was required to do take the exchanger out, which didn't involve...

Thanks for the advice. Gives me a better idea of what to expect when engineer has a look.

Apologies I seem to have caused a problem. My use of word plumber was general. Should I be looking for a boiler engineer? Can a plumber be a boiler engineer or visa versa? As to ruling anything in or out I have used the fault finding section in the installation and service manual. This I...

The boiler has been serviced in the last year. I just wanted to try understand what might be going. Just the same with the car, washing machine etc. Not trying to do an expert out of work.

I have a TurboMax VUW282E which has given many years of good service, however over the past week it has developed a problem with the DHW supply. When drawing hot water the boiler starts as normal but then after about 15-20 seconds shuts down and then after about 7 seconds starts up again...