Recent content by robkoka

Do you mean on hot water only? I'm unable to check this as I'm renovating and there are not hot water outlets installed at present, though all rads. are installed. Rob

None, the power light is on throughout, All the lights flash for a micro second prior to each attempt to fire, starting to think the condensate trap is frozen rather than the pipe? going to try raising the ambient boiler temp. with a hairdryer this evening. The boiler is fitted with a frost stat...

The saga continues! The boiler is still failing to light, switching the boiler on causes the fan to run for about a second, the boiler to click twice the fan to stop running and then the same to repeat over and over. I phoned a plumber yesterday who thought, as this is a condensing boiler...

thanks for the advice, the competency thing of course, went without saying (i've read into the whys and wherefores). Just best to have an idea of what the problem is before asking anyone to take a look. Thanks again.

Ok so I solved the problem with the above boiler fusing repeadidly, It was the timer switch, Now after a day of normal use the boiler refused to fire up, the power on light comes on, manually switching the boiler to on, them the fan runs for a second or two, then the boiler clicks three times...

quite. caveat emptor comes to mind but hind sight is a wonderful thing. Help with the boiler issue rather than property advice apprechiated!

Now I'm confused, The timer I can change, simples. But if its not that don't want to wast time and money and possible extra damage to the boiler changing it. The timer is remote from the boiler and it was definitely that that went pop/flash. Is this likely to have been caused by a short in the...

Now that you mention it I did notice a small brown wet drip on the inner casing when accessing the PCB to replace the fuse! does this strengthen the leaking gland case? Sounds like its a plumber job? costly?

I've been having a problem my Potterton Performa 30 he boiler. I've just bought the house and the boiler is as installed, on first attempt to fire up the boiler, I found that the 2 Amp quick blow fuse on the PCB had gone, on replacing this, the boiler worked fine for two days until the PCB fuse...