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We have a Rayburn 460k Nuway burner which is now over 20 years old which has been regularly serviced and maintained by myself and has generally been reliable. However....last week it has stopped igniting on both boiler and cooker.
Removed the burner and found the blast tube had gone on the...
Hi - Our Rayburn 400K mainly runs low as a heater as we have LPG cooker. Yesterday (Christmas Day) I turned the control up to 8. It heated until the Thermodial needle got into the Roast sector, then it cut out and did not kick in again until it had cooled off - useless for roasting tatties! I...
God how I hate this thing! So the problem with this thing aside from it being filthy and inefficient is that the boiler keeps cycling and on restarting has an explosive ignition. I've checked and rechecked the levels of the boiler burner, flushed the central heating pipes and all the rads and...
I'm not quite sure I'm placing this message on the right branch.
I need to install a kerosene heater RMC-95C6B in my friend's van. I'll have to find my own place and work with the tree, I can handle it, but he wants to install a thermostat. How do I connect them to each other so that they work...
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Looking at some time connecting my solid fuel boiler up to HW cylinder, problem i have is where cylinder is the first floor drops by about 350mm
so can not get a continues rise in pipe work, attached should be a diagram i think would overcome this issue, can you see any issues with what i...
If any of you engineers out there take one of these Potterton BOA sectional boilers out before taking it to the scrap yard ring me 07977722363 because I want a spare section.
I fitted a brand new section to a 108 and the company did not have the decency to let me know a couple of years or so...
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Work was undertaken in 2017 in which pipework from a new condensing boiler was routed through an external wall and then connected to the existing pipework of the underground copper oil feed pipe.
Should the system be pressure tested after completion.
If so, would it be tested at the oil...
Hi all - sorry to post as a newbie. I'm a homeowner - although with some technical bent ...
We have an ancient (probably 1987) oil boiler Perrymatics Jetstreme Mk2 running on Kerosene. Works beautifully. Have had it serviced until a year or two ago - and not since the pandemic ... This heats...
Looking to renew my certs. Noticed there is now an OFTEC training place in Aberdeen near me.
dropped them a note asking about availability and price of the 3 day course...
£1150... plus vat.
HOW MUCH !!!
Madness......
My apologies as this question has probably been asked loads of times.
We moved into a new house in Jan which has an oil boiler, the room that houses the boiler is always warm, sometimes like an oven.
The radiator that's directly above where the boiler is is always on, mainly warm but sometimes...
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I have an oil-fired Aga with a BM oil control valve and a Flexitemp thermostatic control (see the image in this thread for an example).
When I bought the house I was told by the previous owner that the thermostat didn’t work and so he (and now I) have always run it by setting the flexitemp...
I started having issues with my heating and hot water, I thought I had ran out of oil, however, when I filled up with 400 litres, the guy told me that my 1000 litre tanks is completely full, so the issue was not oil tank being empty.
Now when I try to get the boiler to work, it seems oil is not...
Hi there. We have recently moved into a rental. We told our landlord and he says he can't smell anything.
The boiler is in our spare room which we were going to make our due baby room in September. But I'm not too keen on putting baby in that room the smell it is only apparent when boiler is...
Im working on 6 suspended air blowers running old riello G5s.Oil tank is 100m away on
ground level so 5m lower than the burners.So each unit has a Tigerloop which are all supplied with half inch iron pipework. Each unit has isolating valve 3\8 regulator oil filter then tigerloop. Can anyone...
Hello all, we just moved into a house with a oil Rayburn range as the primary source of heating, but it has been off for about 10 years. We havent had any luck finding an engineer or knowledgeable person due to our extremely remote location and covid 19.
the problem seems to be that as oil...
Hi, wondering if anyone can help. I have a leak coming from my oil boiler only when the boiler is fired up. It's down the bottom with beside a bolt and what looks to be a bleed nipple
My wife got oil delivered and they bled the boiler. Is there anyway a leak could happen from someone...
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My oil fired boiler won’t fire up it is in lockout
After a power cut my oil feeder is showing out of fuel- it isn’t. And now my boiler is in lockout and won’t fire.
It was working fine before the power cut.
Checked & no air in the system
Plumber thinks I need a new feeder but I’m unsure...
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Do oftec regs allow passing of the oil feed through the foundation wall under floor space if the feed pipe is installed in a fire proof steel tube? I wondered if it would help me overcome an installation problem perhaps with a fire valve at either end of the feed as it enters and exits...
Hi, today I turned my central heating oil boiler on at the switch inside and it seemed to fire up but the water didn't get warm so I checked and it has locked out so we pressed the magic eye (start button) under the boiler front cover on the motor. It fired up and is working but it's making a...
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