NeilM Posted February 11, 2018 Posted February 11, 2018 Is it def a combi. Yep confused me too....Only other thing I can think of now is that.The original expansion tank buggered up n someone fitted an external expansion tank.Or. Me n you are on the total wrong boiler.I'm no plumber. I'm originally a mechanical tech.But I think I know a bit.Plus mine here's a Worcester greenstar..... Quote
Mississippi Bullfrog Posted February 11, 2018 Author Posted February 11, 2018 Oh bugger, I'm up for nob of the day. The boiler in our other house is a combi, this one's on a hot water tank. Sorry, my bad, it's not a combi after all. I'd been sorting something out with the other place and came back to this and just got the two muddled in my mind. Quote
NeilM Posted February 11, 2018 Posted February 11, 2018 Oh bugger, I'm up for nob of the day. The boiler in our other house is a combi, this one's on a hot water tank. Sorry, my bad, it's not a combi after all. I'd been sorting something out with the other place and came back to this and just got the two muddled in my mind. Tit Quote
mikestrivens Posted February 11, 2018 Posted February 11, 2018 Oh bugger, I'm up for nob of the day. The boiler in our other house is a combi, this one's on a hot water tank. Sorry, my bad, it's not a combi after all. I'd been sorting something out with the other place and came back to this and just got the two muddled in my mind. Tit Harsh Quote
Bender Posted February 11, 2018 Posted February 11, 2018 Can only guess you have a non system boiler then as everything else had a tank lol, good luck let us know how you get on. Quote
Mississippi Bullfrog Posted February 11, 2018 Author Posted February 11, 2018 Oh bugger, I'm up for nob of the day. The boiler in our other house is a combi, this one's on a hot water tank. Sorry, my bad, it's not a combi after all. I'd been sorting something out with the other place and came back to this and just got the two muddled in my mind. Tit Harsh Nah, it's a fair cop. Can't believe I didn't remember which house I was in. Quote
mikestrivens Posted February 11, 2018 Posted February 11, 2018 ...Nah, it's a fair cop. Can't believe I didn't remember which house I was in. I have that problem with my cars Quote
NeilM Posted February 12, 2018 Posted February 12, 2018 Tit Harsh Nah, it's a fair cop. Can't believe I didn't remember which house I was in. Don't worry about it. Good luck with sorting it Quote
bonio Posted February 12, 2018 Posted February 12, 2018 Best thread award. Deserves to win for the unexpected ending. Quote
Mississippi Bullfrog Posted February 16, 2018 Author Posted February 16, 2018 And the ending - it's the heat exchanger. Sadly our usual chap is away for half-term so it's taken a while to get a professional diagnosis.But this is the story of my life this week. I was out on the bike this morning but then for some unexplained moment of madness got in the car to pop to Aldi 5 miles away. Took nearly half and hour to get there due to roadworks - so I thinks to myself, I'll be a clever chap and go round the ring road on the way home and avoid the roadworks.Which would have been fine except Mr Lorry decided today would be a good day to catch fire on the A55 - so two hours later I finally make it home (having watched several bikers cheerfully make their way through the gridlock)And of course, by then the ice cream I'd gone for had melted. Quote
Stu Posted February 16, 2018 Posted February 16, 2018 But on the plus side you had heating in the car Quote
manxie49 Posted February 16, 2018 Posted February 16, 2018 Same boiler as us and we had the same problem, guy that came out found a leaking pipe under the floor board going to one of the radiators Quote
Bender Posted February 16, 2018 Posted February 16, 2018 Have you checked to see if its still under warranty, as a side note ideal boilers are terrible for heat engine failures, they even have an in factory failure ratio of something like 77 to 1 and that's before they are built, its a bit pants. Quote
Stu Posted February 16, 2018 Posted February 16, 2018 Have you checked to see if its still under warranty, as a side note ideal boilers are terrible for heat engine failures, they even have an in factory failure ratio of something like 77 to 1 and that's before they are built, its a bit pants. Looks at our ideal boiler FFS Quote
Bender Posted February 16, 2018 Posted February 16, 2018 Think the fail rate in the wild is 15 to 1 within 7 years if that makes you feel worse Quote
Stu Posted February 16, 2018 Posted February 16, 2018 Think the fail rate in the wild is 15 to 1 within 7 years if that makes you feel worse errrr yes!! its now 5 years old! only 2 more years to save for repairs Quote
Bender Posted February 16, 2018 Posted February 16, 2018 I'm sure it will be fine but if you save for it and it doesn't go you can always spend it on the bike Quote
NeilM Posted February 17, 2018 Posted February 17, 2018 Think the fail rate in the wild is 15 to 1 within 7 years if that makes you feel worse errrr yes!! its now 5 years old! only 2 more years to save for repairs You just buy the exchanger.Few pints in town and me n daft lad would come over and do it. Not a difficult job to be fair. Quote
Joe85 Posted February 18, 2018 Posted February 18, 2018 British Gas Homecare.Let them pay for it. Quote
Mississippi Bullfrog Posted February 18, 2018 Author Posted February 18, 2018 British Gas Homecare.Let them pay for it. That's what I have at our other place as it's let so I need to get any problems sorted quickly. To be fair it's been a pretty good experience so far but they seem to bump the price as the boiler gets older. Quote
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