Recent content by suzieb

mmmmm, my feeling too, but one has to work with what one has!

Thanks! It's an Ariston Micro Genus, not sure of exact model. Dates from 2001.

Thanks, I have had a look there, but as I have not needed to have any repairs done on a gas boiler before, I am hoping that someone local can recommend an engineer they have had good service from.

I am looking for a Gas Safe engineer to repair and service a combi boiler. I have no experience of using a local person, nobody comes up in the ads on here, so if anyone can point me in the right direction, that would be ideal. Our flat is in Glasgow, in the West End.

Thanks everyone! Have taken on-board all suggestions and comments and will see what we can work out.

Where would the frost stat come into the picture?

No, all done with thermostatic valves and boiler stat. Not today's best practise, but it works well with the house layout, so we don't really want to change that right now.

No, we do not have any motorised valves. We have a boiler, 2 pumps, thermostat on HW cylinder, frost stat, timer/programmer, thermostatic valves on all but one radiator (this to act as bypass, it is a small rad in a big hallway). At present we can set times on HW and CH totally different...

We do not have a roomstat. The system (it's old) works only on thermostatic valves and boiler stat. We do have a HW stat, and a frost stat. I presume that will alter things? Will pass your comments to OH, who is very handy with the multimeter!

Could you givev a bit more detail on that? As it happens, we purchased an FP715, but we obviously need to alter the relays too.

Yes, the output from the timer is 12v, 12v DC. OH is the one who understands the details, but there are 2 boxes set in the wall, one where wires come in, marked 240v, and one where wires go out again . The components in this area are marked 12v DC. Inbetween and fitted over these is a...

It is a 23 year old Maplin Universal Timer with 4 output channels so you can time HW and CH either on a weekly or 5/2 day basis by switching between channels 1 + 2 and 3 + 4, or each day can set individually. Multiple on/offs can be set for each day. So it is not a programmer specifically...

2 totally separate pumps, both Grundfoss.

Our CH is a fully pumped system with 2 pumps , not the usual 1 pump plus motorised valves. The programmer we have allows us to set HW and CH times totally separately. The programmer is old and now seems to have gone haywire, so we need a new one. Plenty to choose from, but although they...