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I went to look at one on Monday this week (I last serviced it Jan 2009) as the user wanted another service.
When I turned up, the appliance wasn't working atall and upon re-setting I was getting random F codes.
F1, F4, F6 in no particular order. I traced one of the faults to an NTC sensor but was concerned about the heat within the boiler.
I ordered a new sensor and heat exchanger seals but couldn't get back to the property until today as I've been away 1st fixing some bungalows in Kent.
The customer called me last night to tell me he had called in BG as he was desperate (fair enough) and they had fixed the boiler. Total price, £430 something as they do a fixed price repair of £189 but as the repair took over 2 hours the charge was different.
Apparently, the BG Engineer explained that basically I was at fault as I didn't replace all the seals / gaskets on the last service. They were all inspected in Jan 2009 and were fine then, but that was 2 years ago.
Just wondered what any opinions are on this, as I'm sure if I serviced it last year they would have shown signs of wear and I would have replaced them.
Mr. W.
When I turned up, the appliance wasn't working atall and upon re-setting I was getting random F codes.
F1, F4, F6 in no particular order. I traced one of the faults to an NTC sensor but was concerned about the heat within the boiler.
I ordered a new sensor and heat exchanger seals but couldn't get back to the property until today as I've been away 1st fixing some bungalows in Kent.
The customer called me last night to tell me he had called in BG as he was desperate (fair enough) and they had fixed the boiler. Total price, £430 something as they do a fixed price repair of £189 but as the repair took over 2 hours the charge was different.
Apparently, the BG Engineer explained that basically I was at fault as I didn't replace all the seals / gaskets on the last service. They were all inspected in Jan 2009 and were fine then, but that was 2 years ago.
Just wondered what any opinions are on this, as I'm sure if I serviced it last year they would have shown signs of wear and I would have replaced them.
Mr. W.