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Good morning everyone.
I have an issues that is as frustrating as is likely obvious.
The above boiler broke down, I have it serviced annually, and this is the second boiler we've had of this type. The engineers that have done the work have always left me little snippets of useful info just in case the worse happens, lucky enough they've been good enough to share their knowledge, although it helps to provide lots of tea, sandwiches (although I've found a breakfast Breville's goes down well), together with cakes and lots of biscuits.
Anyhow, when the boiler went Saturday I checked and the air intake, to the right of the burner, was full of water/oil. Turning it off at the mains, isolating oil from tank to boiler, I took the one nut that fixes the burner to the back plate off, lifter the burner out and it was like a waterfull, this explains the bubbling sound and flame out.
Anyhow, long story short, I took the burner apart, a very simple process, cleaned the insides, drained all the water from below the baffles and put it back together, turn the oil on, power, and bingo, it started and ran fine, although a lot of white vapor, no smell of fuel and I guess this was because everything was so wet.
The family had several baths, all hot and good, but I get up today and the unit is filled up again? Any ideas what this could be? It seems daft getting someone round as I know how to get it cleaned/started again, but where is this water coming from, is this a self help job?
Any of you technical minded guys want to help a chap out? It'd be greatly appreciated.
Gary
I have an issues that is as frustrating as is likely obvious.
The above boiler broke down, I have it serviced annually, and this is the second boiler we've had of this type. The engineers that have done the work have always left me little snippets of useful info just in case the worse happens, lucky enough they've been good enough to share their knowledge, although it helps to provide lots of tea, sandwiches (although I've found a breakfast Breville's goes down well), together with cakes and lots of biscuits.
Anyhow, when the boiler went Saturday I checked and the air intake, to the right of the burner, was full of water/oil. Turning it off at the mains, isolating oil from tank to boiler, I took the one nut that fixes the burner to the back plate off, lifter the burner out and it was like a waterfull, this explains the bubbling sound and flame out.
Anyhow, long story short, I took the burner apart, a very simple process, cleaned the insides, drained all the water from below the baffles and put it back together, turn the oil on, power, and bingo, it started and ran fine, although a lot of white vapor, no smell of fuel and I guess this was because everything was so wet.
The family had several baths, all hot and good, but I get up today and the unit is filled up again? Any ideas what this could be? It seems daft getting someone round as I know how to get it cleaned/started again, but where is this water coming from, is this a self help job?
Any of you technical minded guys want to help a chap out? It'd be greatly appreciated.
Gary
