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It was rust in the end that made them not fix it. They were quite fair and send another more senior guy to look at it who agreed, casing not safe. Just dumb that the first guy didn't tell me in the first place. Replaced with a baxi 415 for like £2k, working well so far!

Blocked condensate drain! Now fixed

It was the pipes. A long time later engineer came and swapped the pipes and then it worked just fine, for two days.... Yesterday I heard lots of bubbling gurgling kettling and it was instantly overheating. Now today it keeps restarting won't really fire properly, hear a bit of bubbles then it...

That was my first potential solution but temp knob has a sticker as I'm not supposed to mess with it yet! Swapping directions sounds slightly better :)

Good question, it's not commissioned, he left as my system takes many hours to fill. He tested it briefly when partially full and it was overheating we thought maybe it would stop when full. He was supposed to come back today to comission it but I checked if it was working once full yesterday...

Yes all correct John (except the old one is a classic HE), I'm not sure if the engineer didn't check if there was a crossover when he removed it, once it was off we agreed return left and flow right on old and new boiler but somehow it's ended up reversed. No bother he will come back and switch...

Now that I'm thinking about pretty sure the left side (return) was getting hotter than the flow side. Oh dear I really don't want to have to drain this down again...

I guess it's possible why are you guessing that? The gas engineer took the pipes from the previous boiler left return and right flow so unlikely to be wrong.

I had an ideal classic he 15 heat only boiler running a boilermate ov class a thermal store. The thermal store has a grundfos 15/60 pump on the boiler return. Replaced with a baxi 415 (because no overrun and no live required which simplifies things). Thermal store refilled all things working...

Interestingly I have a connection with a relief valve between boiler flow and central heating return but I'm guessing this is just a precaution and shouldn't impact draining and filling?

About to have my broken boiler replaced this weekend and trying to figure out how to drain the old one properly with this system to be ready for the engineer. It's an open vented thermal store. As far as I understand this boilermate has a cylinder and 3 independent loops (boiler, central...

Shambles, they told me they had the old fan and PCB parts in stock, engineer came over said yeah PCB and fan shot but I don't have any on me, I'll write a report don't know what will happen. Then I get a voice mail saying boiler deemed beyond repair so now they want to keep £99 for the callout...

Ok they told me over the phone PCB and fan are in their old stock and they don't have a problem with the boilermate (of course they won't repair it or anything) so all sounds good, booking in ASAP, will let you know how it goes :) thanks for the suggestions to get it repaired.

Yes they figured out age from serial, they're slightly worried about getting parts (I see plenty online) but otherwise happy to come.

Ideal are happy to come out for £359 (£99 if they can't fix) but won't touch the boilermate tank. Does this sound sensible?