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…I can smell burning kerosene when I stand next to my kerosene-burning appliance…

Yeah I’ve been racking my brains trying to think of secondary explanations like this. Am I overly sensitive to it? Am I mistaking it for a different smell? Totally imagined?

Gotcha, ok thanks. I’m away from home so can’t take a pic right now, but the exhaust is as you describe, standard stainless steel type. The clamp is a thin wire type jubilee clip, I taped round one end of the clamp as it looked secured but not airtight. The exhaust is down a side of the...

Can’t take a picture right now but it’s of the Grant Vortex family, like this: https://www.grantuk.com/professional/products/oil-fired-boilers/vortex-pro-internal/

Thanks for your reply. I don’t believe it’s a balanced flue; the boiler is indoors and there’s no air intake outside the building.

Hi all, Moved into a house with a Grant oil boiler a year ago. I swear I can smell smoke/burned oil throughout the house. Problem is, I’m the only one that can smell it, and neither myself or the heating engineer can find a leak. To summarise: - I’m an aircraft engineer, I’m certain I can...

162l. And having just Googled the "average" volume of a shower or bath, it seems like you're right!

Cheers for the response. I did wonder if it just saved plumbing in a second pipe, although the shower is right next to the sink and they must have had to run the electricals up to it, so barely a time-saver? And yeah, I think we'd keep one of the electric ones for backup but I'm minded to get...

Hi gang, Just moved into a house, built in the 1990s, it's got oil-fired central heating and a hot water tank. Two bathrooms upstairs, two downstairs. Three out of four bathrooms have an electric shower - it's just one upstairs shower that's fed off the hot water tank. I can't figure out the...

Can you elaborate? To me, it looks like I have two out of six vertical pipes with nothing covering the tops, which would let rain straight in.

Hi all, Moved to a new house and there are six roof vents for extractor fans etc, two of which appear to be missing the mushroom vent cowls to keep the rain out. From ground level, the two appear not to have anything on top, although I'm not sure if they might be sealed off? There's no problem...

Thanks, it's a Grant Vortex Eco indoor oil boiler. There's a separate hot water tank that's on a timer, so I assume there's not an internal thermal store? I'm increasingly thinking it's an A/B valve problem, I'll update once a professional has had a look!

Been all around the inside and outside of the house, plus the loft, looking for a frost stat. Can't find any traces of it, so I don't think one exists. The thermostat "clicks" when energised by the timer and doesn't click when the timer is off. Yet the boiler still fires up. So I think it must...

Hi all, Just moved to a house with an ancient Grant oil boiler supplying a hot water tank and the heating, via a Danfoss timer connected to a thermostat in the hallway for the heating, and one in the tank for hot water. Everything appears to be in working order, except the heating keeps coming...