Recent content by PollyW

Thanks for the advice which does sound the most sensible thing to do.

Sadly we woke at 6.30am to a very cold house again - the heating should have gone on at 5.30am. After more fiddling with the Salus thermostat, I turned both switches off and then on again on the Salus receiver, and the boiler started working. The house started to heat up towards our chosen...

Thanks to you both. We have completely turned off the under floor heating in the kitchen. Rather hoping the leak might be there but no idea where it is really. The more immediate concern is the heating and just hope the new Salus works and we can finally control the heating. The last Salus we...

Oh no. Another misguided action from the installation company. Why is it bad?

Thanks for the warning Ian. Ten days ago someone out sealant into the system in the hope that it will block a leak that everyone thinks must be somewhere in the system. He said it could take two weeks to have any effect. Hopefully it has and this is why we have not lost pressure for a week. If...

Thanks Ian for clarifying about the override. There have been a catalogue of errors from the installation company. Di you really want to know?! Pressure relief valve mistake. The motorised valve had not been wired correctly, according to the Vaillant engineer who came, and it was not opening...

Thanks Ian. Do you mean if I push the Manual button, the heating will stay on until tonight when it is due to go off? And the different settings for the rest of the day will not operate? Now we have warmed up a bit, I will have another go at getting it to work automatically without the Manual...

Thanks for your comment. We emailed the installers first thing this morning but it will no doubt be several weeks until they can come again. Thanks also for sharing the instructions, which I have already. It is extraordinary that there is nothing in them about how to use two of the buttons for...

We continue to have problems with our Vaillant boiler which was installed last July; the company who installed it have still not managed to get our heating controls working. We had months with uncontrollable heating, and for the last few weeks have not been able to turn it off at all! Yesterday...

Thanks Terry. Next time we raise the pressure I will see what the number actually is when it is near the top line. When it does its sudden drop, it goes right below the lower dotted line, and is on .1 When we get someone to look at it, I will mention the expansion vessel. Is this something that...

Why is that a problem? It might not be exactly that. We are raising the pressure to just below the top dotted line. Please see attached photo to show what it is right now. Thank you.

Thanks to you both for your replies. Manual controls were not really the right words to use! I just meant without needing internet nor any connection to our router to try and control the heating. I liked our wall-mounted wireless thermostat we had before; my husband likes the idea of the app...

New Vaillant Ecotec pro 30 boiler installed in August, worked OK for two months then the pressure suddenly dropped. Tried to raise it but it shot right up and made a very loud constant noise that we could only stop by turning water completely off. So no heating or water at all for a few days...

Have just looked at my previous post here from a few years ago, and see it was a thermal cut-out I was advised to get. I cannot remember how we put it in but I do remember we managed to do it ourselves! Should this last more than a few years? Or is it time for us to get a new oven? Thanks

We have an AEG single oven, about 14 years old. It has started turning itself off when it gets hot after 20 mins or so. We had this problem three years ago and were advised on here to change the cooling fan thermostat (or something like that), which solved the problem. Should we get a new oven...