Recent content by sibley

Wow! That's a very angry response. One of the people who came is a friend of a friend (who has been very helpful but unable to solve the problem) and he calls himself a plumber. I have never considered it an insult (as you seem to be suggesting) to call someone a plumber any more than I would...

Thanks for that suggestion but a new pump was installed at the same time as the boiler a year ago and has not given any trouble - in fact the display shows "pump overrun" when it should

Since it was all working perfectly okay last winter and the problem only began when I put the heating back on at the end of October, having had it off through summer, then I feel it must be a problem with the boiler or the heating system generally, but am fed up with trying to work out what...

I think it's the Ecotec Pluc 428 if that makes sense

I have a one year old Ecotec Plus boiler. When it fires up, the temperature on the display shoots up really fast to 75 degrees (the temperature that the boiler thermostat is set to), then it sounds as though it is boiling (kettling?) before cutting out and dropping very quickly back to around...