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Thank you, much appreciated. I will be back once I have my hands on the new one to check about the wiring lol

Good question... The main one is that i am having to turn the thermostat up to around 27.5 to keep it calling for heat. Also... for quite some time, it has been making a sound when it turns off. Like an electrical interference type sound & it takes a few seconds of this sound before it turns...

Hi guys, so I am looking to replace the room themostat in my bedroom, it is this one: Would I be able to "like for like" replace it with this one: https://www.screwfix.com/p/honeywell-home-t6360b-1036-room-thermostat/26159 I have 2 room thermostats in total. This one in an upstairs...

Hi Terry, to get the motor running again, I “unplugged it & then plugged it back in again”.... Now, update.. 1 new oil pump later and the boiler is running. Boiler man says that the oil ran low & it probably sucked in gunk to the pump and killed it. he checked the oil coming into the filter...

So before I start, I have a boiler man coming tomorrow, but I'll just share an update. Yesterday, with the boiler not working I set about trying to get it to work. I saw the oil in the tank was very low, but it was not empty. So, I filled 120l of kero into the tank & bled the boiler though...

Cheers guys, will try the pump tomorrow in the better light again.

no point trying a capacitor then?

ok, thanks guys, tried to short the capacitor but no reaction. will try to source another one locally and report back. thanks again for the help.

Thank :) is it safe to just pull of off now at the connectors? I’ll take it with me to a local shop.

Thank you Terry I am going to try a new capacitor & a few hundred litres of oil. The capacitor looks pretty simple to change, but these can be dangerous right? Does it need discharged? I'll disconnect the boiler from the mains & pull off the capacitor at the spade connectors? Lastly, can I...

update: unplugged & plugged in the boiler from the mains (leads in boiler housing), this seems to have given power again, loosened bleed vavle - oil is there and is pumping when boiler tries to start but it doesnt fire. I just checked the oil I am a bit low in the sense the oil lovel has...

My oil heating is set on timer to come on every morning. I noticed 3 or 4 of mornings ago it didnt come on. I was able to press a reset button that was behind a cover that i screwed off on a small grey box (see picture) and the burner fired. Fast forward to yesterday morning and the burner...

This is the only bit I could see that didn’t look too clever. Mainly because it looked like something that was coiled at a stage and went off. Bit of sticky glue type stuff around it as well. No black marks anywhere, this is the only thing that looked off. How does that look to people who know...

Sorry, I should have said. It’s a Leisure DWLT 65. It is about 13 years old. It has just completed a wash cycle at 50c. Heated the water and dried no problem. I was wondering if running it at max temp would have caused it to trip - wouldn’t explain the bang though when things had cooled down...

Started my empty dishwasher last night on a 70c wash. Just one of those Dettol cleaning Bottles in it. Woke this morning, Dishwasher was power off, water in the bottom of it. Main board had tripped. So... I turned off the wall switch and reset the trip on main board. Then I proceeded to flick...

It does have that feel about it, doesn’t it....

So, the plot thickens. Heat turned on and I’m outside this evening. I noticed the overflow was dripping. Heat off, overflow stops dripping. I go up into the loft, there is a leak, under my water tanks. Big tank is ok, f&e tank is full, ball valve is submerged. Rusty sediment on bottom of f&e...

So the motorised valve arrived. I was able to fit it and as a result, the HW control switch now turns the boiler on. However... Still not much heat in the rads. I will be calling a heating guy in the coming fortnight to have a look. I’ll update after he has been. Thanks again for all the help...

Thanks for that oldbuffer. I’ll admit that is pie in the sky to me, although I have a multimeter, I only have a very basic grasp of it. I did order a new motorised valve (they are “Tower” branded btw) a few days ago, so I am going to replace the current hw valve. I believe it is only 5 wires...

The problem is is a rented house, I don’t know if the landlord would fix it or turf me out, so I’m reluctant to spend on it, and reluctant to ask him as I don’t think I will be here much longer anyway. I know I need a professional, I’m clueless. The feed to the coil in the cyclinder should not...