so another so called gas safe engineer appeared at my door £25ph not bothered as long as he fixes it............1 hr passes dunno mate done everything i can think of..........that involved blowing into the hoses pulling the crimp of the safety thermostat new pcb mate i"ll do it for £180 cash hang on 1st engineer change pcb on friday so that won"t be happening get yourself of mate.........please just a little help ... turn stat up, boiler fires up 10secs later boiler dies, turn dhw on same thing,shower runs hot then cold.........i did more myself than the gas man .........pin pushes micro switch pump runs fan runs boiler lights up boiler dies .........anybody cheque will be in the post!!!!!!!
another idiot!!!!!!!!
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told you last night check / get checked the flame sensing electrode and lead
section I in your fault finding
section I in your fault finding
the flame detection electrode it don't matter if its sparking
if no detect flame no turn on boiler
the boiler is firing up but not staying on for the duration it should i.e room stat calling for heat but boiler not firing but then it will lots of relay clicking starting stopping shower left to run boiler fires up hot water then cold boiler dies then fires again no continuity
i give up
ok so had 2 gas safe lads round they couldn"t fix my boiler.........little bit of tinkering around with pump and that............just unscrewed temp sensor leaving crimp connected boiler working perfect screw sensor back in boiler stop n starts have i found the fault?????????
Gas safe is to do with safety while working with gas. Reading the posts it seems the problem area is system controls which 'Gas Safe Engineer' is out of deepth with. You need to engage services of someone who works with boiler day in day out.
Another pointer is £25.00 per hour- I would be looking at twice that else I will stay in my nice warm bed.
You need someone who is familiar with your boiler, will offer no fix no fee (well a little bit to cover for petrol etc) and is not afraid to show you what he aims to do to locate the defect.
Another pointer is £25.00 per hour- I would be looking at twice that else I will stay in my nice warm bed.
You need someone who is familiar with your boiler, will offer no fix no fee (well a little bit to cover for petrol etc) and is not afraid to show you what he aims to do to locate the defect.
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I think the problem is your too tight to pay for an expert; hence you get course cowboys for £25 p/h.
I would say £50/h is pretty normal for most places. Take your car to the dealership and see what they charge per hour 
Mercedes charge about £100 and Honda charge about £85 at least. Go figure with that one. Even a back street garage will charge you roughly £40/h.
Mercedes charge about £100 and Honda charge about £85 at least. Go figure with that one. Even a back street garage will charge you roughly £40/h.
yeah because i have a merc!!!!!!!!! real world live in it!!!! £25ph cash if you work a 8hr day £200 do the math it isn"t a client fault if he hasn"t enought faults to fix in a day but i think in this day and age £50 a hr is pathetic don"t think john terry on that!!!!!!!
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