serviceplus s21

[wemyssie]

i have a valliant ecoplus boiler which is started using the above

tonight ive came home to the s21 reading call eng 0 days left

phoned the housing assosciation and the soonest i can get an engineer is friday

now obv i have young kids and no heating hot water

is there a way to overide this msg to at least get hot water

when i hold set and ch the display resets but again comes up with the call eng msg

thanks in advance

ps the boiler is completely dead no signs of life

 

[Boilerman2]

The S21 is a service timer, which you have clearly ignored as it will have counted down over several days so there it is it was ignored, it timed out
it is Wednesday already so Friday it is then
Lesson Learnt? don't ignore Service Timers!!

 

[Dan Robinson]

Obviously with young kids getting your gas appliances maintained in good time is the top of your list of things to do; just in case something would ever happen.

 

[Deleted member 63160]

Tenant syndrome all over.

 

[Agile]

Unfortunately HA tenants are prone to ignoring service requests which is why they have to make them turn off the boiler. Thats usually not for at least a month though!

Owner occupiers dont need that facility!

If you wanted to get an independent engineer then you would have to pay for them, perhaps about £84 !

Tony

 

[wemyssie]

i thought this was a forum?
obviously you always get smart ****s and cheeky bastards but it was a genuine query

had i known this timer was due a service i would have contacted the revelant people

yes i ended up paying for a private engineer who has rectified the problem

last time i ask for advice on here

 

[Dan Robinson]

ooooohhhhh get you.

The service reminder was put in for your benefit. if a bit of harshness has taught you a lesson then great.

Your timer would have been telling you for well over a month a service was due. perhaps you should pay more attention to these things in future.


Our replies were genuine. We don't have housing associations looking after our boilers. We have to sort out the servicing ourselves.


If anyone is being cheeky - it is you!

 

[Boilerman2]

tonight ive came home to the s21 reading call eng

You said it yourself - so don't try and make out you didn't know you were meant to get in touch with your HA for an Engineer!!!

It would be impropper for anyone on the forum to tell you how to by-pass a safety device!!
muppet!

 

[wemyssie]

tonight ive came home to the s21 reading call eng

You said it yourself - so don't try and make out you didn't know you were meant to get in touch with your HA for an Engineer!!!

It would be impropper for anyone on the forum to tell you how to by-pass a safety device!!
muppet!

last night i never knew it was a safety feature did i?

a muppet well **** me im sorry for asking advice a nice no sorry we cant help would have done

 

[Dan Robinson]

But, it was a lesson learned, and thankfully for your kids, one through inconvenience and a little teasing. And nothing more sinister.

What if something happened due to. Your lack of action ,but one of us had told you how to bypass it?

From an installers point of view do you have any idea how annoying it is to get an earful of grief off a tenant or home owner because the "recently installed" boiler has failed. Subsequently to find out that it was fitted three years ago, hadn't been touched since; and has failed because it needed nothing more than a service.

Even more annoying when they have called out some bell-end emergency company out and expect a reimbursement for that bill and a night in a hotel or similar.

Now at least you can spread this lesson to all the others at the next cheap rent meeting and feel less put upon.

 

[Agile]

Wemissie, this warning shows without turning the boiler off for about a MONTH in most cases.

It would seem that you have ignored it for a long time!

The HAs usually send LETTERS as well explaining what will happen.

Do you always ignore letters and boiler displays until the inevitable happens?

Does the same thing happen with your Council Tax and the bailiffs attend?

 

[ackster]

WOW! i know this thread is old, but theres some pretty F***cking arrogant know-it-all's on here. I'm also a tenant, (sorry about being a pondlife non home-owning family in good full time jobs, but thats life), and had this system installed just 9 months ago by the council. Now, this panel is tucked away in our airing cupboard, and strangely enough, this warm weather means i dont have a reason to think i need to inspect the display every week, but i have also noticed this message on my system. I'm pretty well clued up on DIY and technical/mechanical subjects as my inferior above average wage job requires it, but even i didn't know about this service issue. You all claim that you highly privileged and intelligent homeowners with huge debts over your heads, have no need for this reminder as you're all obviously much more intelligent than the average person. But lets not forget that tenants, or should i say the oh so smart property owning landlords, have a duty to schedule annual services of heating, electrical and gas systems. Therefore, the tenant is going to be less likely to need the reminder as super intelligent responsible landlords should be maintaining their property anyway with checks carried out before the last one expires.
Secondly, as for not knowing what this message means, i was not told about it by the very clever engineer, and nor was it mentioned anywhere in the literature that i was given. Sadly, us clueless tenants didn't have the same luxury of being born with all the same information as you natural born engineering homeowners.
Unfortunately, when we don't know something, we have to come onto these demoralising forums to admit our shameful lack of engineering degrees and being a tenant, and be abused by clever people in the hope of learning our lesson.
So like Wemyssie, i have also learnt my valuable life lessons.... 1) homeowners are obviously very clever people, albeit arrogant, self absorbed ****s whose neck is being squeezed very tightly by their own arseholes
and 2) Distrust landlords when thinking they might actually conform to rules and regulations, by carrying out routine safety checks at the required intervals
and 3) this message means it needs a service

 

[muggles]

Welcome to DIYNot. Do you have a question, or have you just come here to rant?

 

[Agile]

I have to say that you are largely wrong!

Firstly, no one is born with a lot of knowledge.

Secondly all knowledge anyone has is learnt, we did not sit around doing nothing but instead studied diligently at school and university. Even those who did not specialise in English Literature still learnt how to write using correct grammar and paragraph layouts.

Then we worked hard and saved to buy our property, living carefully to pay the mortgage on time.

Tenants live in their rented properties and are thus best placed to heed service warnings on boilers.

All boilers should be checked weekly to ensure there are no error warnings and the system pressure is correct.

Tony

 

[45yearsagasman]

CLASSIC!!!!