The boiler fan is on the way out. The wife lost central heating/hot water today and panicked and rang in a plumber, who diagnosed a dead fan. Quoted £300 to fix, along with a bit of a dodgy refilling/pressure filler (still works okay though, and had always been a bit slow). £180 for parts, £120 for an hour to fit. Wed already paid 120 for him to come out and diagnose it.
I came home from work, googled a bit, then sprayed some oil on the fan bearings and gave it a poke - back to life! Everything's fine now. For a while maybe...
Now, I'm reasonably confident with DIY. Built a few fences, decking and installed a steel roof on our garage in the last 3 years of house ownership. Also taken apart a fair few electrical appliances to replace odd components and soldered some phones back together.
But boilers are all regulated and Corgi certified and all that. I know the fan is not anything to do with the gas components - but it is flue related. Don't want to poison the family with CO2, you hear it happen in the news every few years.
Is it safe, or allowed, for me to tinker with the fan of a boiler?
Its a Worcester 24cdi if that's relevant.
I came home from work, googled a bit, then sprayed some oil on the fan bearings and gave it a poke - back to life! Everything's fine now. For a while maybe...
Now, I'm reasonably confident with DIY. Built a few fences, decking and installed a steel roof on our garage in the last 3 years of house ownership. Also taken apart a fair few electrical appliances to replace odd components and soldered some phones back together.
But boilers are all regulated and Corgi certified and all that. I know the fan is not anything to do with the gas components - but it is flue related. Don't want to poison the family with CO2, you hear it happen in the news every few years.
Is it safe, or allowed, for me to tinker with the fan of a boiler?
Its a Worcester 24cdi if that's relevant.