FN-FORUM: [OT] gas boiler problem

date posted 2nd January 2004 14:06

Hmm... almost a year to the day since I had another household problem
thrust itself into the limelight, I get another.

I suddenly have no heating or hot water.

I've fiddled with the boiler a little and spent an age trying to find info
online, but all I get are gas boiler affiliate sites and very little useful
information. Google really has gone down hill.

Anyway, I believe it to be a problem with the water pressure. After trying
a number of things including swapping fuses.

The pressure guage has two dials, for one of them it states not to let the
needle
drop below '1'. It was slighlty below this but I fixed it, having been shown
how to previously by a plumber.

The second guage is on zero, I think this is a temperature guage so that's
right.

I've just been to let the dog out into the back garden and spotted a trickle
of water
running from the overflow pipe of the boiler. Now I did fiddle with the
water
pipe screw under the boiler so I may of set this off. But fiddling again
makes
only a slight difference in the amount of water trickling. In fact checking
it again
I find it is pouring out. I've set the small screw back to it's original
position but it's
made no difference.

The final detail that convinces me it's the water pressure is that when I
switch on
the heat manually the burner does not come on, but the pilot light stays
steady.
So I believe the poor pressure has tripped a switch?

Now in the great tradition of this forum and it's many OT posts, can anyone
help me out? :)

tia,

Darren Yates
[EMAIL REMOVED]
http://dittodesign.co.uk