Can anyone help me with my Puma 80 Boiler?

[wwwkianoushcom]

First of all a little hello from a guy in Hertfordshire

I got a problem with my Puma 80 combi boiler, I don't know too much about them but I'm a dab hander with DIY (we all say that) and I got a problem with it and was hopeing that someone here might be able to help me sort it out.

The problem is that the heating works fine, the preassure reading is good and there is no major noises, but the hotwater is dribbleing (spelling) so badly that I can't be ar$ed to have a shower!!! basicly there is no pressure from the hotwater. When I got it, 3 years ago it was fine but I realised that it just god worse over the years and now it's just really bad.

I have taken the main cover off the boiler and I think it might be a pump that's gone. There is a pump looking think on thr right with a a transformer twards the back middle, could it be the pump? or something else?

Cheers for any help anyone can give me.

I could get a plumer but I just can't afford it right now and besides the internet is here to help

Kia.

 

[breezer]

I am not a plumber or heating engineer
I am not so sure it is your pump, because on a combi boiler the pump has two jobs.(but it only does one at a time)

1st. If heating is called for the boiler heats the water and pump pumps the water round.

2nd, if a hot tap is opened a valve operates and the pump now pumps hot water to the tap which is opened.

I have a couple of thoughts.

How long from cold do your radiators get hot? if it is quick then i would say pump is working, if it takes say 10 -15 mins then pump is struggleing

If the radiators all get hot very quick, then as mentioned pump sounds ok, it may there for be the valve.

All that said pumps have been known to have a short working life

at £32.00 i would try a new pump first

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