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The government changed the Regulation in 2008. Most air vents on BG contract were upgraded from 2006 at a discounted price, of course some people refused. A vent with less then 90% required free air will deemed At Risk (Meaning you use the appliance at your own risk) This will be explained...

240v on the Netural is showing a break in the Netural. Netural is earth return so you'd expect it to show no volts. If its broken it's got nowhere to flow to and becomes live like the live in.

This is not a fault, the boiler is in frost protection mode :) Is it in a garage or boiler house by any chance?

There was me reading this thinking broken neutral But I would have ordered the PCB first and diagnosed second... obviously. :wink: We (BG) are supplied with a test kit that checks the L-N-E in one hit, gets you out of a muddle quickly, don't trust it to do anything else electrical tho.

Which side of the boiler did the water leak from?

Call in BG, some would disagree :lol: British Gas still stock the fan. I'd be surprised if a private engineer couldn't find one.

Want to prove limescale in the tank, give a knock and listen to it falls off the sides of the cylinder :wink:

Small world Pete... early days, was only last year haha. Good to see you're still spreading your knowledge about. Do you still hear from the old boys like Alan and Rod? See them about but never have time to stop. As for BG you wouldn't recognise it, huge changes are happening!

Yes it'll be possible and very easy to wire in a simple time clock to that boiler. The boiler will have a switch live, switch live is the command from the timer/thermostat for the boiler to fire. It'll have a permanent live. You'll find the switch live has been linked to give a permanent...

Can't remember the model, think it was a Glowworm floor standing appliance, pre-dated the moon landings :lol: Recently worked on a 1969 Glowworm Galaxy Backboiler.

As a BG engineer I can say myself that I have worked in some places that are far from sterile. :shock: Every week and everyday can have it's surprises. BG like any big company to hot on Health and Safety, even more so in recent years. Call the job back in, you might get another engineer...

I wouldn't want to work in a environment with mouse dropping and urine. :| It wasn't a unreasonable request from the engineer. I've myself requested a customer had a mouse nest removed by pest control, along with the dead mice that had chewed up the 240v wiring for the Central Heating.

What kind of system do you have? RC Plus with a wireless receiver box connected to a regular boiler?

Try this: Turn off all the radiators in the house and leave only one open upstairs. Don't just rely on the zone valve, close the flow side of each rad off. Now set the boiler to a low heat (incase you do have a blockage, you don't want the boiler to fire straight onto overheat). Set the...

Lead pipe. Does it look similar to this?

Very possible. The wireless receiver will fit in place of the existing programer or in the airing cupboard. Honeywell and Drayton do good wireless programable thermostats.

I'd recommend you call a engineer to fix the appliance! It could be a simple recharge of the expansion vessel. A recharge will pump up the air bladder inside the vessel. A flat vessel will give no room for water expansion as water can not compress into itself thus causing a rise in water...

Second choice for me too :) Ball versions are useless. Mucky water plus tight fitting ball twist valve is a leak waiting to happen, only takes a little dirt to become trapped.

You have Y-Plan System (thats a valve with a flow in, but two outlets, on to the cylinder and one to the radiators). Closing the by-pass on a y-plan system will cause you little issue, theres a likely hood you have a radiator without a Thermostatic Radiator valve fitted, normally in a hallway...

Fully Clockwise is closed. Open it up 1 complete and 3/4 turn anti-clockwise. If it weeps again just nip the nut up again, it's a pretty common thing for a gate valve to do. Same applies to radiator valves :)