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We have an oil delivery booked for Friday but we ran out earlier today. We topped the tank with 150L from containers, bled the first boiler from the Allen key until the oil ran free and it fired up fine.
Did the same on the second one but that had an E9 over temp error. We reset the thermostat...
Hey. Fairly new to oil. Serviced above boiler Last week. All working fine but now had customer call to say it keeps going to lockout.
Been and looked today. Symptoms are the boiler ignition process will start. You can hear it sparking. The boiler will fire, run for around 1 min and flame will...
I have a worcester greenstar camray utility 12/18 oil boiler and we have not used the hot water for years on the boiler we use it for just heating as we have electric shower and dishwasher etc. This year we thought we would use the hot water, but on turning the hot water on it only heats the...
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We have a 2005 Worcester Bosch Oil Heatslave 26/32 that is fitted with the optional timer. Recently we have a problem.
To get either the heating or hot water to switch on the timer has first to be set for both to be ON but this just prepares the unit as neither will switch on at...
I have a Worcester Bosch Oil Heatslave 26/32 which is about 17 years old. It has developed a fault that has come in stages so it might be more than one fault. It was fitted with the OEM programmer.
1. When the water heating is on, but the room heating is off, the boiler sometimes heats the...
Hello, this is my first time on the forum. Three months ago we had a 1000 lt fill. We then noticed a strong oil smell when the boiler was firing up. There was no sign of an oil spill. Contacted our engineer to have the boiler serviced, still the strong oil smell was there. Recommended having new...
Is there anyone out there who has come across this problem.
Our boiler locked out so pressed the reset button and it seemed that all was fine. Red light went out and fan started etc. About an hour later noticed nothing seemed to be warming up. But motor was still running and no lockout. Called...
The use of inserts on 10mm rolls of plastic covered copper. Brass inserts are available for this purpose, but does anyone use them. They have an O/D of 7.7mm where as the I/D of all of the coils available to me are 8.6 min.
Whos' best for servicing Kane FGAs?
Do you send them back to Kane or use an independent?
I have a tank to install.
No static head, about 25m run.
Don’t want any joins.
Check the books - says I should use 6mm pipe.
Cant find a source of 6mm sleeved Copper pipe anywhere.
I guess it’ll be 8mm then.
Can only find max of 25m rolls of 8mm sleeved.
Check distance to tank ...... 26...
I have a redundant gas cooker supply to cap, but wondered what the nut on the top of the gas supply bayonet fitting is used for?
With regs requesting more oil line pressure testing, what's the best way to test an existing oil line with a tiger loop.
Can you leave it in place or do you exclude form test. ?
We have an outdoor Worcester Bosch Greenstar 25/32 Oil Fired Combi.
We are getting a random lockout fault, code 855 9F. Pushing reset sorts it for a while sometimes an hour sometimes 4 hours.
I can't get hold of the engineer that installed it. Is there anything I could try until he responds...
hi chaps, major headache this winter with so many tanks having water and contaminants in bottom of 'em - the recent cold snap meant frozen oil lines etc etc...I have a hand sludge pump but looking for recommendations for a decent 240 v supply pump for this purpose ....typically 100 or so litres...
Noticed today that the ground looked damp around the outside of our Worcester Bosch Heatslave 25/32 External Boiler. Took the cover off and warm water is pooling in the base of the unit. Can't see an obvious leak and all the components are dry. I'm guessing it's the thermal store leaking. Is...
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First post so hope I’m on the right forum!
Anyhow I have an oil fired Worcester boiler approx 13 years old . Heating system open vented is original about 30 years old micro bore pipes.
Feed from boiler 28mm has manual bleed valve then splits into two 22mm pipe ...lower into Grundfos...
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Watchman Plus plug monitor showing “r” so replaced 4 x AAA in power tube and measured 6.3V at connector. After switch on, monitor displays serial number then remains on “r”. I have carried out battery replacement before, with no problems.
Any ideas where to look next? Cheers
Hi i wonder if anybody can help ? I drained down my warmflow boiler for a new rad , now its needs 3 bar pressure to trigging boiler back into life but my mains is only 2.5 ! Any ideas
The boiler is a Warmflow B1 Oil CH Boiler.
Does the thermostat fail in an open state or closed state with a hard failure?
Can they simply start to malfunction and not control the temperature correctly in a soft fail situation?
The boiler is working but the homeowner says it's running all the...
installed a warmflow 70/90 bluebird boiler with a 0.55 x 80 degree nozzle.
boiler is only heating 5 radiators in a small 2 bed house.
what is the recommended nozzle size and pitch for this boiler?
Can I change the nozzle size and pitch to use less oil as the flame is hitting the back wall of the...
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