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I have a ten year old Vaillant boiler, which was intermittently failing to fire up. This has now been fixed by a friendly neighbour who used to work for British Gas. He fiddled for a few minutes, finely adjusting some of the controls and now it fires up every time. If it gets worse again, he...

Vaillant which is based in Remschied in the Ruhr in Germany bought a British company. Since then they have closed most of it down. They have an office in Belper, but there does not seem to be any management there. They employ 300 gas fitters, but these do not report to any local offices...

I am starting a new thread because the previous report of this minor fault was taken over by a bunch of posters who spent their time attacking one another in their own private jargon. One was touting for business. A Vaillant 242 is failing to light up intermittently for HW. It can be...

I have two Vaillant combis each ten years old in the same house, which contains a basement flat. There are constant problems with the larger unit failing to light up. It is either a 242 or 282 - it is hard to read the number. But it fails with this ignition fault quite regularly and costs a...