Pilot Light Problems

[snook1]

I have a boiler that runs my central heating and my hot water. My problem is that the pilot light went out. I have tried to relight it but can't make it stay on. It ignites but goes out as soon as I release the gas button. The gas still works in the rest of the house (hob etc).

PLEASE HELP as I currently have no heating!

 

[CLARKO]

its sounds like your thermocouple is jiggered

 

[rogi]

This might be obvious but how long are you holding the button down for as this needs to be long enought to heat up a thermostat that keeps the gas supply on. mine used to take about 15 seconds before the pilot will stay alight but try longer.

If this does not work then I suspect the pilot thermostat has failed. this happened to me in the past.

 

[snook1]

I have held it down for varying amounts of time. Upto about 5 minutes


I have heard it might be the thermocoupler. How much will it cost and how easy is it to fix!

 

[rogi]

almost sure to be the thermocouple.

you should find it mounted to poke into the pilot flame with a single semi rigid (ok to bend this but not to tight a radius) cable back to a nut type fixing. So it's just a remove and replace job.

mine was very cheap (under a fiver i think) from the local hardware store. I took off the old one to make sure the new one was right.

good luck.