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Thread update - I like to keep things current so other people searching threads for advice can find some. Not that everyone here would appreciate that. So I had someone out to have a look, it was diagnosed as a holed flue pipe, unfortunatly these are aluminium on these boilers and prone to...

Thanks, that's the sort of advice I was looking for. I just wanted to exhaust all the easily diagnosable problems before calling someone in. If he arrived and just changed something as simple as the igniter it would feel like a waste of time for him & a hassle for me. Thanks,

Thanks that what I was looking for, a little advice, obviously as I'm no boiler engineer I would like to know if a canary in a cage held up to the outlet would be sufficient?! Joke. No, you know as well as I do that's beyond my scope. I'll speak to a boiler man about it, I've done a quick visual...

Why do you think that? I've changed the easily accessible and easily changed parts, the PCB unplugs, the ignition probe and the flame detector are only a couple of bolts each and the s trap is a further two screws, non of it is hard to dismantle or replace, if someone had of had similar...

So I moved into my house around two years ago, my old house had an 80's glowworm 2 boiler that provided plenty of heat with no trouble, it was old an inefficient but it worked. When I moved into my new house I was pleased to see an A rated icos Ideal boiler, great I thought, cheaper gas bills...