Hi All
Great site, hope somebody can suggest a remedy for my problem. Sorry this is a bit long winded, just thought if I give all the facts, it might help.
I have an old gas boiler, GLOW-WORM 52B SUPER.
It\\\'s been in the house approx 28 years and given us very few problems untill recently.
Basically, when I switch on the heating the boiler fires up for just a few minutes and then switches off. So I get no heating and no hot water This has been an intermittent fault for the last couple of years.
Normally after I keep trying the heating for several day's the boiler eventually fires up and stays on. The longest period it has taken to basically correct itself is 3 days. But now it has failed to stay on for the last week. So I think the fault has finally become permanent instead of intermitent.
The boiler seams to work fine during the summer when I only need hot water, but it is when I set it for heating and hot water that the problem occurs. When the problem does occur, I can't even go back to just heating the water, as it won't work at all.
I have had the boiler serviced each year, and whenever I called out the engineer to the problem, he could not find a problem as it always fired up when he arrived. He said an intermitent fault is very hard to find, and that there was more chance in finding the problem when it became permanent.
Now that it is permanent, he has retired and moved away. And with all the story's you hear about cowboys, I am very reluctant to call somebody out only to be ripped off.
Any suggestions will be gratefully received.
Thanks in advance.
Jed
ps forgot to say, in the past when the problem occured and then corrected itself after a day or two, the heating would work fine for two or three months, before the fault would re-occur again.
Great site, hope somebody can suggest a remedy for my problem. Sorry this is a bit long winded, just thought if I give all the facts, it might help.
I have an old gas boiler, GLOW-WORM 52B SUPER.
It\\\'s been in the house approx 28 years and given us very few problems untill recently.
Basically, when I switch on the heating the boiler fires up for just a few minutes and then switches off. So I get no heating and no hot water This has been an intermittent fault for the last couple of years.
Normally after I keep trying the heating for several day's the boiler eventually fires up and stays on. The longest period it has taken to basically correct itself is 3 days. But now it has failed to stay on for the last week. So I think the fault has finally become permanent instead of intermitent.
The boiler seams to work fine during the summer when I only need hot water, but it is when I set it for heating and hot water that the problem occurs. When the problem does occur, I can't even go back to just heating the water, as it won't work at all.
I have had the boiler serviced each year, and whenever I called out the engineer to the problem, he could not find a problem as it always fired up when he arrived. He said an intermitent fault is very hard to find, and that there was more chance in finding the problem when it became permanent.
Now that it is permanent, he has retired and moved away. And with all the story's you hear about cowboys, I am very reluctant to call somebody out only to be ripped off.
Any suggestions will be gratefully received.
Thanks in advance.
Jed
ps forgot to say, in the past when the problem occured and then corrected itself after a day or two, the heating would work fine for two or three months, before the fault would re-occur again.
