I have an old Baxi back boiler (22 years old, approx) and the pilot light wasn't staying lit. After some research the problem was obvious that it was needing a service even although I just had it serviced around 4 or 5 months ago but it seems Laminate flooring feeds a lot of loose dust into the boiler quicker than carpeted floors.
I had a Scottish Gas engineer out to look at it and he gave it all a good clean and its up and running again but he has said he had to mark it "At risk", only reason being, in 2005 or thereabouts, the law stated that every home with a back boiler had to have a 5" core vent installed to help the back boiler breath, so he gave me a quote for them to install it and its working out at £179 just for Scottish Gas to bore a 5" hole in the living room wall and install a small vent but he did say if I could do it myself it would maybe only cost about £20 or £30.
Question is, what is going to be more effective, the vent being installed up high about a foot from the ceiling or down low about a foot from the floor??
Has anyone else had the same problem?
Any advice will be much appreciated
Thanks! : )
I had a Scottish Gas engineer out to look at it and he gave it all a good clean and its up and running again but he has said he had to mark it "At risk", only reason being, in 2005 or thereabouts, the law stated that every home with a back boiler had to have a 5" core vent installed to help the back boiler breath, so he gave me a quote for them to install it and its working out at £179 just for Scottish Gas to bore a 5" hole in the living room wall and install a small vent but he did say if I could do it myself it would maybe only cost about £20 or £30.
Question is, what is going to be more effective, the vent being installed up high about a foot from the ceiling or down low about a foot from the floor??
Has anyone else had the same problem?
Any advice will be much appreciated
Thanks! : )