A playing up boiler.

[geordie r]

Hi,
I have a IDEAL 80 or 95ff boiler, it keeps turning itself off and a red light keeps coming on, also the pressure is on about one every time i turn the penny valve and bring it back up to say 3 it slowly goes back down.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated Geordie

 

[hi-spec plumbing heating]

why you bringing it up to 3 bar ?

 

[Agile]

The red light is a flame failure.

You need a competent CORGI to identify the cause of that in your case.

Set the pressure to 1.5 Bar.

Tony

 

[gas4you]

I've had lots of these with this fault description, in my case each has been the ignition pcb.

 

[geordie r]

I was told to set it to 3. it goes up tp 6.

 

[gas4you]

Unfortunately you have been told wrong When cold pressure should be just over 1 Bar and when rads are hot this should rise to about 2 Bar.

If you set to 3 then when the rads heat up the prv will open and let the water escape as it is set to open at about 3 Bar