oil central heating

  1. andyr123

    is this feed and vent setup weird?

    trying to get rid of an air lock in our boiler after emptying central heating system and looked in the airing cupboard at this setup . the alarming thing I found was going up into loft at the F&E tank expecting to see the cold feed being a 22mm ... but its only (equivalent) of 15mm - I say...
  2. T

    Open vented system Hot water working but heating is not - getting really annoying now!

    Hi all I am i need of a bit of help. i have an oil boiler - working fine. Hot water is running, heating normally however the sequence of events has meant no central heating 1 new pump fitted - damaged due to contamination 2 heating working fine for 3-4 days 3 drained system , put x800...
  3. H

    Camray 5 Boiler - Issue

    Hi Bit of a strange one, and I have contacted a plumber but they won’t be able to come until after Easter which is fine. Just wondered if anyone had experienced similar. We have a Camray 5 boiler, and for the last few months we have had the heating on ‘timed’ and hot water to ‘on’ - constant...
  4. samag

    C plan system airlock

    Hi guys, we moved into a place last Dec with an old Grant Euroflame oil boiler with 4 pipes, one set with a Grundfos pump on it and the other set running upstairs to a HW cylinder. We've never been able to get HW generated from the boiler for a sustained period, the water doesn't seem to flow...
  5. C

    Alpha Oil Boiler lockout intermittently

    Hi I have an Old (1992/3) ALPHA range / boiler - its has two ecoflam minor 1 Boilers - I had fuel oil delivered the other day and the next day it locked out. I reset it and after about 1-2 hours it locked out again. The boiler goes through its cycle and heats the water and every so often when...
  6. Mike15/19

    Lockout Worcester heatslave 15/19

    The problem is more burner related Worcester heatslave 15 19 oil boiler It is a bentone b9 burner made in 1999 With a danfoss bfp 21 l3 oil pump . The boiler will run fine with heating on but about 1 in every 3 or 4 times it goes to start up it will lock out , I will press the lockout button...
  7. I

    Sunvic to Netatmo Thermostat

    We are in the process of moving house and currently have a Netatmo thermostat along with a bunch of radiator valves. Our new home has Oil central heating and hot water. There are two thermostats - One in the hall way and the other next to the boiler(which is in the garage).20201223_132521 by...
  8. H

    HIVE wiring help?

    Hello, I live in the UK and my home has a oil fired boiler which is gravity fed. I bought a hive dual channel receiver as my home has a separate hot water tank. It turns out that the switching for the hot water is within the boiler outhouse so I will only be able to set up for a single channel...
  9. andyr123

    lot of condensation in top of Tigerloop device - is it normal?

    I photographed our Tigerloop the other day - seems a lot of water/condensation in the top of our Tigerloop, does this look normal? - I've never had a Tigerloop before so i didnt know if its normal? is that what is supposed to happen? or could there be some water getting into tank or oil? - I...
  10. T

    Oil boiler lockout - could it be fuel starvation?

    We have a Worcester Bosch Danesmoor 20/25 oil boiler that's quite old but has been OK for the 6 years we have lived here. It has on occasion gone into idle mode which I have sorted by pressing the solenoid. However when I tried to turn on the heating a few weeks ago it just locked out after a...
  11. andyr123

    White Bloom on Blast tube of Kerosene Burner

    Hello. we have a Stanley 80 twin cooker with 2 burners in one for CH part, one for cooker part. I had it apart yesterday to clean out combustion chamber and noted that the blast tube on the CH burner had this white bloom on it. The boiler/cooker had a service nov 2015. Both burners on the cooker...
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