Recent content by LovemyBaxi

Hi A tenant has dropped an entry phone handset and now the red, white and blue wires from the curly phone wire are not connected to anything. I can see the speaker would have 2 connection points and presumably the 3rd wire goes to the mic. Please can anybody tell me which should go where...

The final twist to the tale was that engineer 1 had pointed to the right hand motorised valve and told me that was faulty, he'd actually bent the metal slider over and told me it was seized, I don't know if he said it was for the hot water or if I just assumed that (as the CH control was...

I’m in SE London/Kent borders and getting any tradesmen for small jobs is difficult. During lockdown people were pleased to get work so I had my guttering replaced and house painted. All change in 2021 so my gas service is overdue. It only takes an extra few minutes to remove the gas fire...

Lol, I didn’t realise at first that the gas was off to the boiler, engineer only said I wouldn’t be able to use the fire. So now I’ve been very bad and turned the gas on to check it works, everything seems perfect and the previous noisy banging has stopped, it’s practically silent. So having...

No, I realise now that that is the one that engineer 1 turned off. On the BAXI fault finder the first thing to check if the spark doesn’t light is if there is gas, there’s a pic of the gas tap showing on and off and it’s definitely off. I’m going to complain to that gas company and ask for the...

Well after spending over £450 I've definitely learned the hard way that I need to get an engineer round who knows what they are doing and my DIY efforts are done. Spend so far; Pump £113, Pump valve £5, Plastic joint box £1,Fused spur box £4, Leak sealer £3.50, Inhibitor £8, 3a fuses £2, Fluke...

I took up floorboards and boiler cable is the one I thought it was. With no call for hw 12 is 240v and 13 is zero, when hw called both are 240v. I really appreciate the help on this as I only just grasped the wiring without any testing. One video I saw said for a 2 port system it is the grey...

To test the voltage at terminals 12 and 13 do I connect the multimeter between each one and a neutral, same procedure as testing the orange wires? Thanks

This might be the time to add that when I re-wired the box there were 2 cables which disappeared under the floorboards that I couldn’t trace, one to the boiler and one to the room thermostat. The boiler cable seemed thinner where I could see it in the room below so at the box I treated the...

It’s a shame I don’t know more about the initial diagnosis, attached. The leaking drain valve is a red herring as I explained it had a tub under it to catch any drips as I hadn’t tightened it as fully as I could after fitting the pump. It was the pump valves he said weren’t the best, the lower...

Hi Ian I’ve uploaded the pics of the old wiring, brown board on back, and the new wiring and the diagram that I used, I’ve written over it, but you can see that I’ve got both orange wires sharing the same slot, when you say test with neutral do you mean any of the neutral wires? Will a...

Hi Ian I'm outer london/Kent borders. The boiler is downstairs and controls in bedroom above next to HW cylinder. The spur socket is lit. The lights come on for both HW and CH at the timer, the LEDs light on the pump (previously CH only - but now since the rewire - HW only). It can't be the...

Hi, help needed please with likely fault. Neither CH or HW are working. I'd only been using HW during summer and when it stopped working I suspected a faulty pump as it had been noisy before stopping. I changed the pump, no change. Neither boiler on or lockout LED were lit on front of boiler...