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You've convinced me, but I'm electronically challenged(n)

Thanks for the info!

:LOL: am sure I could mess it up!

lol...sorry, I didn't read your other forum posts, but good that you're asking lots of questions and being interested in learning more, as well as contributing to the forum.

@MJN - yes, I am amazed that you all spend so much of your free time giving free advice to people online! So thanks to you all for that. I'm also amazed (and saddened) that there appear to be so many so-called "professionals" operating in the heating field that do not know what they are doing.

Great...I may know someone then who is a real handy man, who I trust and has done other work for us. My husband and I are not great at DIY sadly...we've done a bit of painting/stripping wallpaper/can wire a plug, but that's as far as it goes. Thanks

Sounds like it! Any recommendations are welcome...I am in Warrington, Cheshire Btw, does someone have to be gas registered in order to fit a pipe stat, as technically they are not working on the boiler itself? (not that my husband nor I would try to do this ourselves, however simple it may...

Many thanks for your replies. Really don't want the same guy coming around again, as I was a bit upset with the way he spoke to me. Guess i have to keep calling around local recommended Heating Engineers until someone will agree to fit the pipe stat. Are they reluctant to touch another Heating...

Update on the situation: Heating Engineer who installed the boiler sent his Electrician around. He checked the Frost Stat and said it was set too high at 5 degrees and turned it down to 3 degrees. I asked if he could fit a pipe stat and he said that it was not needed...that he had never needed...

Thank you both for your replies. The guy who installed the boiler is coming round tomorrow.

Many thanks

Hi all - first time poster and have zero knowledge about boilers/heating systems, so please be gentle :LOL: Our boiler (Baxi EcoBlue Advance 19 Heat Condensing Boiler) is located in an attached garage with a separate Honeywell frost stat wired in next to it. In very cold weather, the frost stat...