I thought it might be a Gloworm, because the gold bottom panel looked like our original boiler, but I didn't want to get chewed up by certain members for suggesting a Gloworm
- Very reliable, nowt much to go wrong and very cheap to repair.
Gas usage is very high - and our hot water is always on?
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I thought it might be a Gloworm, because the gold bottom panel looked like our original boiler, but I didn't want to get chewed up by certain members for suggesting a Gloworm
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I bet this eventually turns out to be a stuck valve actuator..
More than likely
There is still the mystery of the pump running with the time clock set to off on both HW and CH ? It should not be running!
OP - Could you try turning that switch off on the left, in the airing cupboard, to see if the light on the pump goes off please and report?
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I was going to say - Not if the clock is off, or at least that is my understanding of S-plan, but you are correct, it could if the actuator is stuck.
Most, if not all, of the standard wiring plans take the feed for microswitch in the zone valve from the perm live side of the programmer not from either of the switched outputs (to prevent backfeed). This means that if the microswitch is active, for whatever reason, the system will run respective of whether the programmer is calling for it to run.
Well, no sign of @DomLeps returning to this thread thus far, to give us feedback on our input, however...
I'd also be checking the meter reading over a 24hr period as there may also be a fault on this, or the utility company are not getting proper readings and could be estimating usage.
Unless the OP is using copious amounts of hot water, the "always on" setting for hot water should not result in such high gas usage.
An overheat fault would result in scalding hot water and that hasn't been mentioned/reported by the OP.
I'd also be checking the meter reading over a 24hr period as there may also be a fault on this, or the utility company are not getting proper readings and could be estimating usage.
Unless the OP is using copious amounts of hot water, the "always on" setting for hot water should not result in such high gas usage.
An overheat fault would result in scalding hot water and that hasn't been mentioned/reported by the OP.
feulsaver did have a pump over run and was not cast iron heat exchanger
That boiler's pretty much obsolete..
The stats turned down to 1 so the cylinder stat will never be satisfied...and the system will cycle all the time there's a clock demand.
Turn the stat up and it will probably kettle from scale.
Rip it all out
The stats turned down to 1 so the cylinder stat will never be satisfied...and the system will cycle all the time there's a clock demand.
Turn the stat up and it will probably kettle from scale.
Rip it all out
The OP might have turned that down, in the hope of working out what was going wrong with the system, but we will not know unless he gets back to us..
If it was there would be an on indication on the LCD display
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