Recent content by lfarndon

My Focal Point gas fire was installed 6 years ago and has been fine. However, I went to turn it on the other day and it won't start. The fan in the flue at the back of the fire (located on the outside of the external wall) powers up then it clicks off as though the fan hasn't got up to speed...

Tested the valve and it was open circuit. Called a heating engineer and told him it was the valve and he said it could be the pcb as well (one failure could cause failure on other). Measured voltage coming from board and it was fine (over 200v). Heating engineer replaced the valve and I now...

I turned the water off yesterday to fix a leaking tap, but the heating and hot water were ok last night & today until about 5:30pm today........I'm wondering now if it is to do with the water feed to the central heating.......

could anything else cause this fault? What about water supply, will the boiler still spark if the water pressure has dropped?? I'm also concerned about the flow sensor......... :?

Thanks Corgiman How much to replace the valve (T&M) as I'm not corgi registered?

I have a meter at work, will try tomorrow. What should I expect to get - continuity and/or what value?

Can you help? I have a Suprima 40 which had the PCB changed in the summer of 2006 due to the usual dry joint problem. The heating engineer fitted a new style board. Today I walked in from work to find the radiators cold and a red flashing light on the boiler. I pressed the reset button and...