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Hi Starting to get a bit chilly now and the missus is chasing me to get our problem sorted. All the obvious things look and sound OK e.g. boiler flame OK, pump shaft turning, radiators bled. If there's no hot pipes coming out of the boiler then does this mean the problem is confined to...

Thanks to you all for trying to help

It's a Glow worm ECONOMY 60, BALANCED FLUE BOILER. I can see the flame but cannot hear a fan. Someone mentioned it might be the zone valve that controls the water flow

Tony - I did this. There's a chrome screw about 1.5 mm which I removed. I popped the end of a screwdriver in there and there was definitely rotary movement. Is there anything else I can check before calling out a central heating engineer? Len

Tony - thanks for the advice. As you can gather, I'm no DIY man. How will I check for the shaft turning?

Just returned from 2 weeks holiday and even though the boiler looks like it's working OK (Gloworm), there is not heat to any radiotors nor hot water. The pump (Grundfos Selectric) sounds OK too. I did turn off the central heating before going on hols i.e. power supply. The system is about...