Recent content by MartynH

I have just taken another quick look and it seems that there are 3 potential 'sensors'. There is a small probe at the other end of the main burner which I am guessing heats up to allow the main burner to open up, there is a long thin probe in the back corner which I am again guessing is the...

Thanks, I will take a look.

I guess that if I can understand what tells the igniter to stop sparking, then I will be able to find the problem!

Thanks, I will give it a try around the igniter at the back of the oven. There is no 'button' as the igniter 'sparks' when the oven control is turned on.

Since my wife cleaned the oven, the oven auto lights OK, but the igniter still keeps sparking ever second after the oven is alight, any ideas as to what stops the igniter?

No it's a metal pipe. I will just use cement as you suggest. I have spoken to a HETAS installer and he has informed me that if you do the work yourself, the you get the local council to carry out an inspection.

Thanks for that. Did you get a Hetas registered person to check your installation? There seems to be a lot of regulation around installing a solid fuel stove these days! www.hetas.co.uk

I am about to upgrade my existing flexi flue liner (single skin gas) to a double skinned liner for my multi-fuel stove. I have a connector to go from the flexi liner (6") into the rigid pipe (5") and the manual tells me to put fire cement around the joints. There is no fixing other than...

Dave Thanks. I guess that looking at boiler prices on the web, for what I want, then you are looking at around £700-£800 plus flue, programmer etc, so I am looking at around £1K. Then if you add the plumbers time based on your rates, I should be able to get the complete job for around £1.7 -...

Thanks for the information, I was looking around the figure of £500 - £750 for labour, so that's helpful. :)

I just in the process of getting some quotes for replacing my boiler. I have a 3 bedroom house so we are looking a Worcester Greenstar type boiler. I will do all the pipe work up to the new boiler and so I will just need the heating engineer to fit the boiler, put in the flue, commision it...

I am in the process of getting quotes for replacing my old back boiler with a combi boiler and the first heating engineer to call has said that I will need to convert my existing single pipe system to a dual pipe system! Is that correct? No combi boilers will work with a single pipe system!

Thanks for the advice. I will be doing a lot of the preparation work so that all the heating engineer will need to do is take the feeds that I prepare from the house and fit and connect the boiler. The boiler will only be around 2 - 3 metres from the downstairs taps and around around 6 metres...

Another couple of questions:- 1) Can a combi boiler work with a 'single pipe' heating system? 2) How many inputs/outputs are there for a combi boiler? I am guessing that there is a input/ouput for the heating 'loop', a cold water input and a hot water output, so 4! 3) Is the programmer...

Thanks