Fitting a timer to a boiler

[neilo1978]

Hi All,

We've just moved in to our new house and have inherited a Ferroli boiler. We had a bit of a problem with the pressure dropping too low and then found one of the valves on the inlet loop was fudged which we had sorted by replacing it with a normal flexible cable (we couldn't get a replacement valve for 3 weeks!), and all is now working ok again.

Our boiler doesn't have a timer built in, but can be bought as an optional extra. From what I have read on various forums etc, the Ferroli boilers aren't exactly highly rated and this puts me off forking out for a timer to go in it. So, its probably a stupid question, but could we not get around this by using a normal timer socket to physically power the boiler off late at night, and then back on again in the morning? This would save us having to do it manually every night/morning. Or would this just cause more problems?

Thanks.

P.S. Forgive me if any of the terminology is wrong. I know next to nothing about this kind of thing.

 

[Whitespirit66]

Assuming it's a combi.

Have you got a room stat? If yes, you could change it for a programmable stat. This will give you temp control, as well as controlling on and off timings for the heating.

If you just want a timer, then something like this will do -

http://www.heatingcontrolsonline.co.uk/danfoss-randall-ts715-p-155.html