Good evening all,
We've recently moved into our house which is fitted with a Baxi Bermuda Inset 2 50/4E back boiler.
In the airing cupboard we have the normal programmer type thing and a potterton thermostat with a sensor on the end of a flying lead.
We've got our local RGI coming to service it on Thursday because we have some queries but as we've not used him before, I'd like to get my head around how the system works before he comes.
One of the reasons for him coming is that it probably needs a service. Sometimes it starts first time, other times it doesn't and locks out requiring us to turn the knob to off and reboot it. Other times it will run for a minute or three then stop, go off for a minute then light again. Is that normal?
The most annoying thing is when it "clicks" as if it were lighting, lights for a second or two then goes out and starts again. This seems to happen mostly during the times that the HW is set to on. We run he CH constantly, regulating with the room stat and the HW is set to come on twice a day.
Going back to the airing cupboard, there is a motorised valve that seems to have one in, two out. Also the potterton thermostat is lying loose in the cupboard. Any idea where it should be attached or what temp it should be at? I presumed it was something to do with turning the boiler off when the HW reaches a set temp. Could that be why the boiler clicks on and off without lighting properly? I've " tested" it by turning the stat down to 40 and holding it against a boiling mug of water which made the stat "reached" light come on so that's working but why it's not attached to anything is the mystery!
Finally, should we regularly vacuum out the area around the front of the boiler? It seems to be a good collector of dust but I don't want to do anything that might cause problems!
Thanks everyone for any ideas..
We've recently moved into our house which is fitted with a Baxi Bermuda Inset 2 50/4E back boiler.
In the airing cupboard we have the normal programmer type thing and a potterton thermostat with a sensor on the end of a flying lead.
We've got our local RGI coming to service it on Thursday because we have some queries but as we've not used him before, I'd like to get my head around how the system works before he comes.
One of the reasons for him coming is that it probably needs a service. Sometimes it starts first time, other times it doesn't and locks out requiring us to turn the knob to off and reboot it. Other times it will run for a minute or three then stop, go off for a minute then light again. Is that normal?
The most annoying thing is when it "clicks" as if it were lighting, lights for a second or two then goes out and starts again. This seems to happen mostly during the times that the HW is set to on. We run he CH constantly, regulating with the room stat and the HW is set to come on twice a day.
Going back to the airing cupboard, there is a motorised valve that seems to have one in, two out. Also the potterton thermostat is lying loose in the cupboard. Any idea where it should be attached or what temp it should be at? I presumed it was something to do with turning the boiler off when the HW reaches a set temp. Could that be why the boiler clicks on and off without lighting properly? I've " tested" it by turning the stat down to 40 and holding it against a boiling mug of water which made the stat "reached" light come on so that's working but why it's not attached to anything is the mystery!
Finally, should we regularly vacuum out the area around the front of the boiler? It seems to be a good collector of dust but I don't want to do anything that might cause problems!
Thanks everyone for any ideas..