Recent content by Morkin

Probably a naive question: How feasible is it to add a new window to a ground floor wall? I'm talking maybe an 80cm-wide window in a 3m stretch of wall between an external door and the corner of the house, which is a bog standard two-storey 1980s end-of-terrace. The room directly above is a...

Oh well, thanks for the ideas. I'll see how much my regular service guy would charge to fit a new controller, that may be worth a punt.

Yes , that stays at 240vac or thereabouts.

Well, I'm not sure that I'm allowed to talk about it, but if I were I'd say no, they are from the control PCB to the gas valve.

OK, I guess I should have read the forum guidelines properly. I'll keep any further musings on this problem to myself. Thanks for your comments and rest assured I'm certainly not going to be opening up the case or going anywhere near the gas parts.

Well, it doesn't seem to spark continuously. I tested the voltage across PCB terminals T1 and T3 (gas valve). When it's working the voltage is 237. When not working it seems to vary between about 218 and 200. I'm not sure if that is enough to explain the apparent failure of the gas valve to...

I don't think it continues to spark, but I will look more closely when I get back. Don't know if he used a meter. I was in the room and saw him poking around in the electronics but I didn't watch everything closely. I don't think he identified the valve make, but I looked up some valves online...

I may have used the wrong terminology when I said "RGI". The company seems to be more in the repairs business rather than installs. He was there for about 25 minutes while I looked on. Charge was their half-hourly rate of £51 inc. VAT. He did not say anything about installing a new boiler. He...

I got an RGI in the other day, but unfortunately, at that time I did not realise that the boiler was semi-working - I only discovered later that it would start OK if I left it for an hour or so. Anyway, he had a look and said he was confident it was the gas valve. But of course, he didn't know...

Hi, I have seen quite a few threads about problems with Netaheats, but I haven't seen this exact problem addressed. Apologies if it has and I've missed it. It's a Netaheat Electronic 6-10. I am going to get it replaced when I have some alterations done in summer, but I was hoping to keep it...