Recent content by Telf

Difficult to say as part of a much larger job. All I can say is that once the part was available to hand it took about 30 minutes to fit it.

ghopper Sorry to be so late replying but I have been abroad. Anyway, so far I am hopeful I have fixed the problem but am staying cautious as previously the cutting out fault was intermittent so there were periods when the boiler was fine. It seems that Fireman was right in that my...

ghopper I am on holiday now will have to proced further with the problem next week when I return home. I will try to remember to report back. All I can say is that for a few days before we left the boiler managed to stay alight ..... fingers still crossed !! It has been an intermittent...

I don't see that FiremanT is in any way advising me to 'tamper with the combustion safety devices' but merely explaining how the devices work and where they are, which is what I asked. If I do decide to try another heating engineer I like to have a bit of knowledge to avoid becoming a victim...

FiremanT The OH stat must be inside the main thermostat black box on my model. There are 2 small dia cables running from this box to the gas valve and also the manual reset button is on the back of the black box. On 2 occasions I caused a cut-out by wiggling these wires but usually that has no...

FiremanT Thanks for your quick response. I am sorry about the 'Freudian slip' (now corrected). I must have been thinking about my forthcoming holiday there. The pump seems to be working OK (I can hear the water circulating and feel the slight vibrations). I am not sure about the what you mean...

I am having trouble keeping my Baxi Solo 50/4 boiler alight. It cuts out when the main boiler is working. A qualified Corgi plumber has tried several times to cure it 1st by fitting a new thermocouple which didn't fix it, and then he fitted a new gas valve but I am still having the problem...