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Here is the link to my original problem and how it was solved //www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15251

Doh! :(

apologies, you are right, the DHW probe (which is also used to control the CH water temp) is on the diverter valve. The one further up the pipe is the overheat sensor. When mine went intermittent the lights were jumping from 70 to 20 instantaneously, and back again) which was causing the...

I guess the clue is in the name :D Yes not too cold and we have a wood burner if it gets too bad. We have only just moved in. The extension was done 12 years ago. I could have put two and two together when I saw the boiler was older than the extension though. Let's hope the boiler lasts...

Fortunately the house is only 19 years old, so is cavity wall insulated, double glazed and pretty good loft insulation so even in the fairly cold snap recently the house still warms up pretty quickly. Doesn't ever get really cold in Lewes. Thanks for the other link. It was suggesting that...

I had one of these boilers (and had every possible thing go wrong with it) The temp sensor in the primary circuit is apparently prone to failure. When mine failed it went intermittent for a long time. This caused the temp display to jump from the "real" temp 60-70 degrees and zero. This...

D.Hailsham, thanks for the link. Have just run around the house measuring all the rads and the total comes to just short of 20KW (excluding the HW tank - what is that normally?) so yes looks like it is always going to struggle (I should have realised as I knew the boiler was new with the house...

Thanks - sounds like the best thing to do is wait the week (I put in 2 bottles of F3 due to size of system -cheek of a certain well known DIY store charging twice what a local plumbers merchant charges for it!) I have never linked to imaged before but hopefully the link below will take you to...

Airing Cupboard plumbing

Thanks for the replies The boiler is wall mounted on the ground floor, the hot water tank, pump and Tri port valve are on the 1st floor (pump is about 1 foot off the 1st floor level). F&E tank is in the loft mounted on a table, so tank is about 2.5-3 meters above the pump. The vent pipe...

Hi I have just moved into a new house and it's always nice inheriting someone else's heating system problems just before the coldest part of the year. The system is as old as the house (18 years) including the boiler. A Potterton Profile 50e, open vented, fully pumped system with tri-port...

I have a similar problem, though with a tiled floor it is not causing any rotting. I only experienced it when I moved to a house with no cold water tank, and so also have put it down to the temperature of the rising main water in the cistern Condensation only appears where warm air is...

Currently have a very old Chaffoteaux boiler (open vented, fully pumped system with hotwater tank). No idea how old, as have only being in the place for 6 months, but am guessing it was the original boiler when the building was converted about 27 years ago. So not surprising that its decided...