Sorry for the long post
Following kind advice on here we had the boiler serviced expecting to have to have the fan replaced. They came serviced, said nowt wrong "Ideal Classic are noisy as they get oder", charged and left. Boiler still making grinding noise, but working so left it at that. Shortly after worse grinding noises and boiler stops.
Call them back and different guy turns up and says - surprise, surprise - the fans gone, will have to order a new one which might take two weeks. He ties to get it going in the mean time and appears to succeed, but about an hour later it dies again.
Missus gets a bee in her bonnet and suggests two weeks is too long so can they fix it earlier and suddenly it's only a couple of days.
But another fitter turned up and frankly didn't seem the full shilling, spent 1/2 hour on the phone to a mate then strated ripping teh boiler apart. Having fitted the fan and just about to leave he says there's a problem.
"There's two types of fan for this boiler and they have different length leads. This is the wrong one and I have had to stick in some lengthing leads for the minute. It works but they'll either have to come back out with a new pump, new leads or make some up with a special crimping tool which we don't carry. Ideal know about this but don't care"
Boiler is an Ideal Classic ff2100 and the fan he fitted had a part no 111947
Now my question is is this bull or has anybody else had this issue? And if it's real, how has it been resolved? And assuming that it's a standard cable crimper, how is this special and how has he bodged it together in the mean time - gaffer tape?
Following kind advice on here we had the boiler serviced expecting to have to have the fan replaced. They came serviced, said nowt wrong "Ideal Classic are noisy as they get oder", charged and left. Boiler still making grinding noise, but working so left it at that. Shortly after worse grinding noises and boiler stops.
Call them back and different guy turns up and says - surprise, surprise - the fans gone, will have to order a new one which might take two weeks. He ties to get it going in the mean time and appears to succeed, but about an hour later it dies again.
Missus gets a bee in her bonnet and suggests two weeks is too long so can they fix it earlier and suddenly it's only a couple of days.
But another fitter turned up and frankly didn't seem the full shilling, spent 1/2 hour on the phone to a mate then strated ripping teh boiler apart. Having fitted the fan and just about to leave he says there's a problem.
"There's two types of fan for this boiler and they have different length leads. This is the wrong one and I have had to stick in some lengthing leads for the minute. It works but they'll either have to come back out with a new pump, new leads or make some up with a special crimping tool which we don't carry. Ideal know about this but don't care"
Boiler is an Ideal Classic ff2100 and the fan he fitted had a part no 111947
Now my question is is this bull or has anybody else had this issue? And if it's real, how has it been resolved? And assuming that it's a standard cable crimper, how is this special and how has he bodged it together in the mean time - gaffer tape?
