Recent content by msa666

Anyone?

Come on, there must be somebody who has used a plumber around here? I'm only asking for recommendations, i haven't asked you to name and shame the bad ones!!

Hi Guys, further to my other topic about my Halstead Boiler, can anyone recommend a Plumber/Boiler Engineer around Darlington/Bishop Auckland who is fairly priced and of who you have good experience?

No need to apologise and be as blunt as you like, its a horrible piece of cheap tat and i would have ripped it out as soon as i bought the house if it weren't for the fact that the previous owner only had it installed 6 months earlier. With the front panel off you can actually see the...

Come on guys, i've been coming on here for years and you've never let me down yet...

Anyone else got any ideas on this? Have searched and searched both on here and on google and can't find any sort of definitive answer (I appreciate it is difficult to diagnose a boiler that you can't either see or touch) but would really like to pinpoint was is causing the lockout before either...

Thanks for that, Halstead are quite a common brand and have been featured on here in several topics. Their website and brochures don't give the impression that they are a rebadge, i'll add a photo later.

Hi Guys, a bit of extra info. When the boiler is trying to ignite it makes a humming sound rather like a pylon/electricity line in the rain. For the last few days befire it packed up it had been making this noise but much louder. Does that give anyone any clues as to what the problem might...

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Hi Gents, Came home today to find that my Halstead Buckingham 4 wasn't lighting. Followed the fault finding in the manual, fan comes on fine, call for heat and it tries to light several times until it eventually gives up and the LED's read out 'Ignition Lockout' which helpfully the manual...

I don't profess to be a plumber, thats why i come on here in an attempt to illicit helpful advice and i question everything before doing it in order to make sure that i don't bite off more than i can chew. I do however live in a town that like many others has a shortfall on plumbers and upon...

Thanks for the help guys, looking at the design of the system today whilst working on it i'm assuming that the drain on the boiler was intended to be the drain point. There is only actually one rad on the same (ground) floor as the boiler and that rad is actually fed from the first floor. The...

Thanks, Yeah have checked outside, no joy. Have inherited the system from an old lady who paid a fortune for it, say no more! Planning to put a drain cock on the lowest rad whilst i have it drained down. Thanks again, Tony.

Hi All, I have a Halstead Buckingham 4 boiler that has what appears to be a drain valve on the side (viewable when the front panel is removed). I need to drain the system but i cannot find any other drain, no drain valve on any of the rads or at any low points in the pipework. So am i...

Hi Guys, I have a Danfoss HP22 motorised valve in my heating system that has started leaking. It isn't a major leak just weeping from the bit you turn (yes, that is a technical term). Do i have to replace the whole unit or can i replace something smaller like a washer or part of the body...