Our Worcester 240 (about 10 years old) has just ended an amazing spell of trouble free running by going spectacularly wrong.
It started by firing up the central heating yesterday although, at the control box, it is still off and has been all summer. We could only stop the central heating when we turned the switch on the boiler itself to HW only. It then gave off a strong burning smell and smoke started rising from the diverter (? - black box front LHS hidden behind the drop down cover). We switched the boiler off completely which stopped the smoking but now trying to turning it back on there seems to be no life at all.
A plumber came round and said we need to strip it down and replace a number of the electrical parts (diverter, one of the boards etc). He said they would only understand the problem fully once this was done and we would be better off replacing the whole boiler than throw good money after bad.
Does this advice sound sensible? Any advice appreciated?
It started by firing up the central heating yesterday although, at the control box, it is still off and has been all summer. We could only stop the central heating when we turned the switch on the boiler itself to HW only. It then gave off a strong burning smell and smoke started rising from the diverter (? - black box front LHS hidden behind the drop down cover). We switched the boiler off completely which stopped the smoking but now trying to turning it back on there seems to be no life at all.
A plumber came round and said we need to strip it down and replace a number of the electrical parts (diverter, one of the boards etc). He said they would only understand the problem fully once this was done and we would be better off replacing the whole boiler than throw good money after bad.
Does this advice sound sensible? Any advice appreciated?