Recent content by seve

Cheers slup.

Can anyone help on this one please? Gas boiler will often kick-in for say 5 minutes or so when outside the programmer set time. As it didn't worry me too much I can't remember if this was happening before a new circuit board was fitted a few months ago. Cheers

'The same people who dont check oil tank levels are usually the same ones who never get it serviced and only call someone on a breakdown'. Silly generalization... and wrong in this case.

Yep, and fillet steak not luncheon meat :)

Cheers. last question to any one with an opinion. Is it simply too much of a coincidence that the photo cell would have failed at same time as the run out of oil and is the more likely scenario probably linked to the pump? I want to be fair to the service company but obviously don't want my mum...

Thanks Nixt. Is lack of oil for a short period likely to result in need for both pump and motor replacment though?

Cheers Tony.

Newbie to site so very grateful for any advice guys. My mum (84) having ran out of oil couldn't re-start after fresh delivery. Person who came to fix from local company admitted knew virtually nothing about boilers but said would bleed system. After about three hours he gave up and said someone...