The hot water starts very hot then rapidly cools and does not warmup again. Central heating works fine. In addition turning the hot water off frequently trips the electric! The boiler is about six years old.
Dear Gas4you, Thank you for your comment. I will tell the heating engineer who is coming next week what you said. I do not know what the switches look like and could well do more harm than good!Mind you I had one engineer come round who stayed an hour and said it could be the heat exchanger, left and charged me £120
With respect, I never understand why anyone would pay an engineer for doing nothing
I am also disgusted that he would charge you for doing nothing
I never charge until I have fixed the fault. The above visit would have been FOC and a quote given to fix in my case, or if it was a boiler I did not know, no charge and a recommendation to get the manufacturers out on a fixed price repair
Dear Dave, I will write to the engineer and tell him to specify what he did for the money. He said he ran diagnostic tests. I have now followed your instructions re. switch. Micro switch fires up boiler, pin moves out when hot tap turned on.
As long as the pin is moving out far enough to operate the microswitch, replace it, turn heating off and turn on hot tap to test, then it could be dhw thermister fault, DV stuck as Chris said, or possibly the plate heat exchanger blocked.
All, unfortunately, of which would need an engineer in front of the boiler to diagnose properly.
I would also suggest that in your letter to him you respectfully request that he re attends to fix the problem and whilst you are prepared to pay for any parts, you feel you have paid enough in labour already
Ok, Thanks Dave and Chris for your quick responses. We have gone as far as we can without someone seeing the boiler. I will leave things until after Christmas now, at least the house is warm! They are designed to fail at this time of year I suppose. Seasons greetings to you both.
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