Boiler issue for a friend

[Toby]

I ment your mate lol 

[golf-sib]

I ment your mate lol 

Lol, yeah going by the pics it looks like an oldish boiler from what he sent me, I'd just get a new one in as you can get some good deals now.

[Toby]

Yea these days! Ushually cost affective! Just the labour!

[golf-sib]

Depends, my uncle has a medium sized house and a friend works at British gas, got him a good boiler and labour in at £1500, no flaws in the two years of it being fitted compared to his antique that looked like it ran on coal 

Some of the bigger firms do deals which are modest. Yet my brother hired some cowboys that required a sparky and a gas engineer even though everything that the sparky was meant to do was already their! But more for him 

[justalex81]

the 24i rsf is an unusual beast. i have a customer who has one of these and once the problems started, they didn't stop 

I always recommend hiring cowboys to illegally install a boiler. Best thing you can do in my opinion. Especially when it kills someone or blows your house to bits 

[T_J_G]

Depends, my uncle has a medium sized house and a friend works at British gas, got him a good boiler and labour in at £1500, no flaws in the two years of it being fitted compared to his antique that looked like it ran on coal 

We've got one of those, a 1960's (I think) oil boiler. Has NO electrics whatsoever!

[golf-sib]

the 24i rsf is an unusual beast. i have a customer who has one of these and once the problems started, they didn't stop 

I always recommend hiring cowboys to illegally install a boiler. Best thing you can do in my opinion. Especially when it kills someone or blows your house to bits 

Any idea's on whats the fault on the boiler alex? I've asked a friend to check on his British Gas laptop of boiler knowledge but his not got back to me, I have said get a new one, but you know what people are like, they still think running steam trains is worthwhile or a car they bought for £50

[Hartside]

It may be two seperate issues on the boiler. The hot water thing needs to be checked out by someone as it could cost you a few bob just swapping parts out. I would guess it's a pressure switch.

The heating coming on randomly could be down to the thermostat fitted. I have a Honeywell wireless controller on mine that had a setting in it which was supposed to gently bring the house up to temp before the time clock clicked in. When I made my 4am visit to the bog the heating was always on. It had me round the twist before I found the setting in an installer setting and turned it off.

[justalex81]

do they have an independant programmer or one that's built into the front of the boiler?

either way the boiler is being told to fire and it only does that by being given a signal. faulty programmer/stat i'd say.

hot water issue suggests diverter valve is on it's way out. they have a wax stat that pushes a shaft onto a switch attached to the end of the diverter valve. This tells the boiler to fire up. When the wax stat is on it's way out, it doesn't make the switch properly, hence why it goes on and off.