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not a bad idea m8. if the hot water side of this old combi goes again i might do that. fingers crossed it lasts till next year and i can sort it out when i have a little more spare cash :)

thats an idea, but what about the boiler site? it is currently in the kitchen the other end of the house from the bathroom, so the feeds to the indirect coils in the tank would have to run across the house to it? or use an immersion on it ? or site the tank anywhare and add a flow...

i have thought about doing that. i even considered adding a cylinder to the central heating circuit on this boiler just to get some hot water before it was fixed. but the house has a bit of a weird layout and 2 bathrooms. one upstairs and one downstairs ( granny flat) and both are at...

now a heat pump combined with a big compost heap has some interesting possibilities. provided of course it diddnt freeze the composting bacteria :D

yes its big enough. it did at one time have one i believe. there is an old galvanised water tank in the loft with some old iron pipework running to it. all disconnected now but evidence of a different heating / water system at one time. the loft access is very restricted at the moment...

Yes im in a rural area. the gas supply stops about 5 miles away. and i am about 40 miles from Glasgow. Unfortunatly the house is occupied 24/7 (elderly mother and wife at home) so turning the heating off during the day is not an option :( i have been giving serious consideration to...

My boiler is now fixed and working, thanks Oilman. but it is an old inefficient model, band d or below i would guess. it has a conventional flue ( cast iron ) that goes up into the chimney in the kitchen. i believe it replaced an old aga type thing about 14 years ago. i have about 50 cm...

Heheheheh it was the part you suggested that fixed it ! got to say though i was a little worried when i saw the tiny ( 4mm ) hole the hot water has to come through in the valve, but it works fine :D its a pity that the local plumbers are not up to your standard, and the local plumbers...

Great news !!! All fixed :D gallons of hot water :D or should that be liters now ? oh well even more liters of hot water. :lol: many thanks to all who responded especially to Gas4you for the parts breakdown and to Oilman for the part no and supplier for the mixing valve. A new...

i think i will leave that test untill tomorrow and some daylight. :D

no i did a resistance reading with the wires disconnected. if there was any connection in the stat i would have a reading, but there was nothing, it was completly open circuit

thats the beastie, in fact i think that is the one fitted on it, perhaps it has been changed in the past. i will save the link thanks m8. But it looks like it might be the stat, i have just put my multi meter across it and got open circuit with the heat store both hot and cold. (the heating...

just put a meter across it and getting no circuit. ran the hot tap and still the same.

the store is under a metal cover and insulation layer in with the boiler itself. the outflow pipe that connects to the mixer valve from the store is warm/ hot if the heating has been on or is running. if the heating is not on or has not run reciently then the outflow pipe is cold. when i turn...

i dont know m8? it has two dial type controls on the front, and the left hand one says priority stat with a neon marked hot water priority and the summer / winter switch. the right hand one says control with a limit and a lockout neon lights and the on / off switch the controller is a...

no lime scale here. a speck of soap and you cannot rinse the suds off :D the mixing valve has the cold from below, the hot from one side and the mix from the other, i looked at a few off the shelf ones and they all seemed to have hot and cold at the sides with the mix out the bottom? if...

hi m8 the programmer only controls the heating, nothing on there for the hot water. and i have had the thing to bits as far as i could and could not find a flow switch. i believe it is a heat bank type without a flow switch?

yes tried that, it did'nt seem to make any diference. but then the burner was off so it ran out of hot almost strait away. it could be the stat though. have you got the part no for it, i could'nt fina a parts breakdown for it anywhare. or even an idea where i could get one?

when i taked to worster they said something about heat banks on this model but they did not support it! and i have only just moved up here from london .... so Mr Brown is not my fault. :roll:

thats what i have. on the mixing valve the hot side of it gets hot, the cold side gets cold and the output is a mix (unsurprisingly) of the two. i did think it could be stuck, but i do get a little hot water from the storage bit before it then runs cold as the burner does not kick in. so...