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I can only sugest the british gas route as a duel supplier they will fix it for £99.oo parts & labour. mine is still a bit iffy but I believe they are not the best boilers. Dave

cheers, will have a look tomorrow night, it started out a bit noisy but now it sounds like a bus in my kitchen, maybe if i paint some double yellows it'll stop.

hi chaps I have a proline frost free fridge freezer, which is approx 14 years old. It still works ok & has been 100% reliable, but recently it has become very noisy, so much so you can here it upstairs. Is there anything that can be done or is it about to fail. Any advice would be...

Thanks guys, after much head scratching, groin scratching - i think the later is due to the lack of hot water & nothing more sinister! I resorted to tapping the red honeywell control unit attached to the gas valve, and lo & behold the gas valve intermittantly started opening with each tap. I...

I hope you can help I have a baxi bahama 100 boiler which had cut out problems before, i changed the flow switches which cured the problem a few months ago (thanks for the advice), but its now developed another problem! In ch mode the burner will come on & heat the house to @ 18 - 19 degrees (@...

Pv Are you really a heating engineer, or just a thief in plumbers clothing? - You can come out of the closet here .. you are amongst friends. ravenheat - warm & dry!

An update, my heating engineer arrived today & as is life, boilers & women worked fine - ie got hot whenever called for ! After discussion the gas pressure was checked at source and after the gas valve all ok the " piston" on the diverter valve was lubed & I hope, kneel, face east & pray I will...

most informative pv

thanks again for the advice, will hopefuly find out tomorrow - will keep you posted. dave

thanks meldrews mate, it could well be a split in the diaphram, but quite often when I turn on the hw tap with the burner not firing the heating the pilot warning light comes on & I have to turn off the power supply to the boiler - on sat it would not light at all on either hw only mode or hw &...

Thanks for the advice, the boiler is now working ok at present, it appears to go off when I turn on the hot tap when the burner is not lit for the central heating, if the boiler is on continuous with the room stat turned up th hw is ok. My boiler chap should be out thurs/ fri, so I'm willing to...

Cheers chaps, checked the gas supply valve, & it is fully turned, pvman I take it I'm going to need a good sense of humour from now on, whilst keeping the kettle on - 1 for my hot water & 2 for brewing up for the plumber.

thanks dfg, the installer thought it would be either the gas valve or ignition unit - is it usual to fail after 18mths?

Hi, I have a problem with my condensing boiler, in ch mode the pump starts, aps clicks, fan starts & after 4 secs the pilot lights but the burner does not , after @ 30 secs the pilot warning light comes on. After removing the power and switching back on the same thing happens.It is the same if...