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Yes - thanks for that. I've been temporarily lazy and fitted the new in-line filter where the old one was cut into the cold water supply pipe - about two feet before it enters the cold inlet to the boiler. On the basis that it would be better than no filter at all, and better than it had been...

In its day it was a decent boiler, but it was designed a long time ago so technically it is very out of date. As for reliability, i imagine all gas engineers would say that it will give good service IF it is properly installed - cleaned through and filled with inhibitor / and a magnetic filter...

I have it working A1 right now (fingers crossed) and the final fix seems stupidly simple. It has taught me about the gamble of using kits of parts made god-knows-where by god-knows-who. I've bought a lot of parts via ebay etc and had to return quite a few for poor quality or ask for missing...

Hi thanks for that. No, the pin drops down immediately. I can shorten the description of the issue a lot today - first switch on of the day, the pin comes up but the boiler fails to fire up (not the hot water, that works great); if i immediately switch off the power and switch the CH back on...

Hi all. Boiler - an old Baxi 105e. Many new parts fitted in the past couple of months, including the complete diverter valve, prv, auto air-vent, hot water plate exchanger. The PCB was replaced with a 'good used' one, though i do realise how dodgy that can be in terms of fault-finding...