Hi,
We had a burst pipe last week, I was decorating and stood on a set of steps and one of the legs went through piece of floorboard that was cut for elec access, the stool leg wend straight down onto a central heating pipe and broke a join! Fortunately I keep a rubber bung next to my header tank so there was minimal loss of water.
We had some trouble finding a plumber at short notice but we noticed an offer from British Gas which basically covers all accidental/emergency repairs plus you get an annual boiler service all for roughly the price of a boiler service. My wife spoke to them and we had a guy out the next day.
He fixed the pipe in no time and serviced the boiler. All seemed fine - it was a hot day so we were happy that it was all firing up properly but didn't leave the heating on.
The next day was quite a bit colder and we switched the heating on - there's only the two of us at home so I tend to leave the immersion heater on for water, leave the CH on constant an use the thermostat to control the heat.
The heating came on and the house got hotter and hotter - I turned the thermostat right down and the house continued to get hotter. It was then that I noticed the thermostat wasn't making any difference to the boiler - with the stat turned right down, the boiler was still firing up. I went upstairs to switch the CH to 'off' on the clock, the red light went out but the boiler continued to fire up and the pump was pumping continuously (even when the boiler was off).
It all worked fine before it was 'serviced'.
Whats going on with my heating?
We've resorted to turning the boiler on and off to control the heat!
We had a burst pipe last week, I was decorating and stood on a set of steps and one of the legs went through piece of floorboard that was cut for elec access, the stool leg wend straight down onto a central heating pipe and broke a join! Fortunately I keep a rubber bung next to my header tank so there was minimal loss of water.
We had some trouble finding a plumber at short notice but we noticed an offer from British Gas which basically covers all accidental/emergency repairs plus you get an annual boiler service all for roughly the price of a boiler service. My wife spoke to them and we had a guy out the next day.
He fixed the pipe in no time and serviced the boiler. All seemed fine - it was a hot day so we were happy that it was all firing up properly but didn't leave the heating on.
The next day was quite a bit colder and we switched the heating on - there's only the two of us at home so I tend to leave the immersion heater on for water, leave the CH on constant an use the thermostat to control the heat.
The heating came on and the house got hotter and hotter - I turned the thermostat right down and the house continued to get hotter. It was then that I noticed the thermostat wasn't making any difference to the boiler - with the stat turned right down, the boiler was still firing up. I went upstairs to switch the CH to 'off' on the clock, the red light went out but the boiler continued to fire up and the pump was pumping continuously (even when the boiler was off).
It all worked fine before it was 'serviced'.
Whats going on with my heating?
We've resorted to turning the boiler on and off to control the heat!