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I have a rather old Potterton Prima boiler which works perfectly well apart from 1 thing. It won't fire up unless the reset button on the underside of the boiler is pushed in. It generally pops back out about an hour or so after the boiler fires up & won't fire again until it's pressed back in again. It's ok on a day to day basis but if we go away on hols it is a bit if a problem.
This happened after my father took the front off to tape the ignitor wire up, there was a small split in the coating which meant the spark was shooting out the side instead of from the end. Ever since then we have to push this button in. I tried keeping it forced in at the time it wanted to pop out but it sounded like the whole thing was going to blow, didn't try that again! I got an engineer out to service the boiler which he's done but mumbled something about bleeding the system & that might fix the issue. In all honesty I wasn't convinced he knew what he was doing. Before I go an call out a different engineer, does anyone out there know what could be causing this & does it sound like it may be an expensive repair?
This happened after my father took the front off to tape the ignitor wire up, there was a small split in the coating which meant the spark was shooting out the side instead of from the end. Ever since then we have to push this button in. I tried keeping it forced in at the time it wanted to pop out but it sounded like the whole thing was going to blow, didn't try that again! I got an engineer out to service the boiler which he's done but mumbled something about bleeding the system & that might fix the issue. In all honesty I wasn't convinced he knew what he was doing. Before I go an call out a different engineer, does anyone out there know what could be causing this & does it sound like it may be an expensive repair?