On Sunday night my central heating stopped working. Well, it was on but should have turned off about 10pm and didn't. After looking at the control panel (it's a Honeywell Smartfit system), it was blank with no display at all. Bought a new panel yesterday morning and still the same problem.
On my home insurance, I paid an extra amount of money for Emergency Home Assistance, so I called them up to come out.
The Heating Engineer came out around 12pm (I was at work so a neighbour showed him around) and he called me so I explained exactly what the problem was i.e. heating was working, control panel not working, etc. He said he would sort it in an hour.
At 2.30pm, I decided to call him to see if it was sorted. He told me that the new unit I bought was faulty as well as the old one so he couldn't fix it due to me buying the new part anyway.
He also advised me that he had left me a "Gas Installation Warning Notice" about the air vent in the living room wall.
So get home and decide to take a closer look at the Smartfit connections. After going in the cupboard where most of the equipment is, I notice a shelf that was being stored in there and had fallen and cut through one of the two strands of bell wire which serve the control panel. The cut was about 6" away from the Smartfit base unit but the pro seemed to miss it and instead blamed it on faulty equipment. I cut the cable and rejoined them through a connector block and hey presto, the control panel worked again. Took the new one off and replaced with the old one and that too worked. Going to take the new one back for a refund tonight.
Anyway, going back to the "Gas Installation Warning Notice." He has wrote on the form, 'Air Vent not suitably sized and fitted behind radiator. Unable to check inside vent. Passed spillage test. Needs to be updated before 1st June 2008.'
So not only did he fix what he was called out and paid to do, but he issued me with a warning. I bought the house 4 1/2 years ago and the back boiler (a Baxi Bermuda VP3) must have been fitted a few years prior to that. In the time I have lived in the house, I have had 3 seperate heating engineers out to fit new radiators, sort the heating, etc and not one of them have mentioned a problem with the vent. The vent measures 8.5" wide by 5.5" high. Does anyone know the regulations and is it illegal as it stands? Below is a photo of the air vent in question.
Thanks for reading,
Carl
On my home insurance, I paid an extra amount of money for Emergency Home Assistance, so I called them up to come out.
The Heating Engineer came out around 12pm (I was at work so a neighbour showed him around) and he called me so I explained exactly what the problem was i.e. heating was working, control panel not working, etc. He said he would sort it in an hour.
At 2.30pm, I decided to call him to see if it was sorted. He told me that the new unit I bought was faulty as well as the old one so he couldn't fix it due to me buying the new part anyway.
He also advised me that he had left me a "Gas Installation Warning Notice" about the air vent in the living room wall.
So get home and decide to take a closer look at the Smartfit connections. After going in the cupboard where most of the equipment is, I notice a shelf that was being stored in there and had fallen and cut through one of the two strands of bell wire which serve the control panel. The cut was about 6" away from the Smartfit base unit but the pro seemed to miss it and instead blamed it on faulty equipment. I cut the cable and rejoined them through a connector block and hey presto, the control panel worked again. Took the new one off and replaced with the old one and that too worked. Going to take the new one back for a refund tonight.
Anyway, going back to the "Gas Installation Warning Notice." He has wrote on the form, 'Air Vent not suitably sized and fitted behind radiator. Unable to check inside vent. Passed spillage test. Needs to be updated before 1st June 2008.'
So not only did he fix what he was called out and paid to do, but he issued me with a warning. I bought the house 4 1/2 years ago and the back boiler (a Baxi Bermuda VP3) must have been fitted a few years prior to that. In the time I have lived in the house, I have had 3 seperate heating engineers out to fit new radiators, sort the heating, etc and not one of them have mentioned a problem with the vent. The vent measures 8.5" wide by 5.5" high. Does anyone know the regulations and is it illegal as it stands? Below is a photo of the air vent in question.
Thanks for reading,
Carl