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RE: FN-FORUM: [OT] gas boiler problem
date posted 2nd January 2004 14:57
This sounds exactly what happened to me before.. it sounds as though your
boiler isn't properly regulating the pressure.
I got British Gas to fix it - it took about 6 weeks, 4 of their plumbers,
lots of phone calls to harrass them, and a couple of hundred quid if I
remember rightly.
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Sent: 02 January 2004 15:27
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Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: [OT] gas boiler problem
Cheers Les, John, Tony,
I've just dicovered as drip in the kitchen ceiling eek :(
It looks like the pressure is to high and so it triggered the overflow.
It was below '1' and I tweaked it and stopped tweaking at '2' but
it kept on rising after I turned it off leaving me with a setting of
'3 1/2'.
How do I get that down is it a case of just letting the
overflow do the job or can I speed it up in some way?
Good news is the boiler is firing up when the hot water tap
is turned on so thats normal at least.
>Did you disconnect the filling loop?
Errr....waz that?
I sit and work right next to this thing how dangerous a situation
have I got here?
regards,
Darren Yates
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http://dittodesign.co.uk
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Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 3:04 PM
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: [OT] gas boiler problem
>
> I had a bit of a problem last year with my central heating having just
moved in to my new house. What had happened in my case was that the water in
a tank which stops air getting into the pipes had been turned off by the
previous occupiers (unknown to me) and the water that should have been there
had evaporated after about 4 months. This resulted in air getting into the
pipes and building up to create a block so that no water could circulate. I
had to turn the large nut on the pipe very gently in small increments until
the air escaped and then fill up the water tank again. Could be that the
water in the tank is leaking thus causing air to get in. I'm no plumber by
any stretch of the imagination but I hope this info may be of help. If that
fails I would get a plumber (corgi qualified) in.
>
> Les
>
>
>
>
> on 2/1/04 2:44 PM, [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> >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
> >
> >
> >
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