Hi,
I've had a search to see if there is an answer to my problem but the threads concerning the Barcelona don't specifically relate to my fault so if this has been answered I do apologise if I missed it.
Anyway, I've been using this forum for all manner of problems over the years and I've had no call to register and post as each job problem I’ve had has has been answered and fixed with the aid of you guys but I'm afraid its time to directly ask for help, guidance and forgiveness !!
As the header says I was one who purchased the Baxi Barcelona (that's the forgiveness part, he he!) about 9 years ago now and I must admit with it being serviced yearly by a qualified plumber I've had no problem's with it until about 12 months ago when I had the red light lock-out.
I followed the flow chart in the Barcelona's manual and checked on this forum and both stated that I needed to replace the PCB board. I did a bit of research and got hold of a new PCB and Ignition board very cheaply as someone wanted rid as they had got them as spares but not used them.
I had also been reading about the condensate trap (again on here) and found a new cheap larger one( for the Barcelonas replacement).
My elecy mate fitted the two new boards and I did the trap as with a maintenance engineers background it was easy to fit and did not involve fiddling with electric or gas (won't touch them as I'm not daft!!)
It then fired up with no problems and has been working a treat ever since until now.
My system was fitted by a qualified plumber and is a sealed system with an Ultra-steel cylinder for the hot water with the necessary filler and expansion vessels and has been in place for about 4 years, prior to that it was the usual gravity system with tanks and so forth in the loft.
The boiler seems to fire up during the night or morning as there is hot water to have showers/baths and do the washing when we wake.
This obviously uses the water and as such the thermostat in the cylinder requests hot water so opens the motorized valve which fires the boiler up but it looks like its about to ignite but doesn’t and sits there making no noise with the hot waters motorized valve open waiting for the boiler to do its thing.
There is no red light but the green is on and there is no fan running because the boiler hasn't fired up.
I would then switch the power off at the mains, wait a while then switch it back on. This would again request the boiler to fire for the hot water and some times it would fire (can hear fan running) and give me about 2 to 3 minutes of a boiler burst, then it would stop and do the same sitting there with just the green light on.
As it's summer I haven't had the central heating on so I tried it, the room stat turned up and controller on boost but the boiler would do the exact same, sit there with green light on.
I know from the various topics that the boiler is pants, but just at the moment I cannot afford to replace it and could do with trying to get another year out of it, plus with the shortage of money at the mo I really need my plumber to go straight to the fault and repair it rather then spending ages on trying to locate it so this is where I ask you guys in the know if you could possibly narrow it down to the cause??
Sorry about the long post and thank you for your time.
Sean
I've had a search to see if there is an answer to my problem but the threads concerning the Barcelona don't specifically relate to my fault so if this has been answered I do apologise if I missed it.
Anyway, I've been using this forum for all manner of problems over the years and I've had no call to register and post as each job problem I’ve had has has been answered and fixed with the aid of you guys but I'm afraid its time to directly ask for help, guidance and forgiveness !!
As the header says I was one who purchased the Baxi Barcelona (that's the forgiveness part, he he!) about 9 years ago now and I must admit with it being serviced yearly by a qualified plumber I've had no problem's with it until about 12 months ago when I had the red light lock-out.
I followed the flow chart in the Barcelona's manual and checked on this forum and both stated that I needed to replace the PCB board. I did a bit of research and got hold of a new PCB and Ignition board very cheaply as someone wanted rid as they had got them as spares but not used them.
I had also been reading about the condensate trap (again on here) and found a new cheap larger one( for the Barcelonas replacement).
My elecy mate fitted the two new boards and I did the trap as with a maintenance engineers background it was easy to fit and did not involve fiddling with electric or gas (won't touch them as I'm not daft!!)
It then fired up with no problems and has been working a treat ever since until now.
My system was fitted by a qualified plumber and is a sealed system with an Ultra-steel cylinder for the hot water with the necessary filler and expansion vessels and has been in place for about 4 years, prior to that it was the usual gravity system with tanks and so forth in the loft.
The boiler seems to fire up during the night or morning as there is hot water to have showers/baths and do the washing when we wake.
This obviously uses the water and as such the thermostat in the cylinder requests hot water so opens the motorized valve which fires the boiler up but it looks like its about to ignite but doesn’t and sits there making no noise with the hot waters motorized valve open waiting for the boiler to do its thing.
There is no red light but the green is on and there is no fan running because the boiler hasn't fired up.
I would then switch the power off at the mains, wait a while then switch it back on. This would again request the boiler to fire for the hot water and some times it would fire (can hear fan running) and give me about 2 to 3 minutes of a boiler burst, then it would stop and do the same sitting there with just the green light on.
As it's summer I haven't had the central heating on so I tried it, the room stat turned up and controller on boost but the boiler would do the exact same, sit there with green light on.
I know from the various topics that the boiler is pants, but just at the moment I cannot afford to replace it and could do with trying to get another year out of it, plus with the shortage of money at the mo I really need my plumber to go straight to the fault and repair it rather then spending ages on trying to locate it so this is where I ask you guys in the know if you could possibly narrow it down to the cause??
Sorry about the long post and thank you for your time.
Sean
