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purp751
hi, we have a Vaillant boiler that was fitted a few years back, it's always done this since fitted but plumber insists is us and not the boiler!
Problem is the heating, even when set it to timed only it fires up when it feels like it, this results in a tropical rainforest at 3am or the thing heats the house all day when not in, we've set the temps for auto-firing to prevent frost damage as low as it can go, think 10 degrees from memory and still it fires up, it's controlled with a wireless thermostat which has never read lower than 17 degrees even in the coldest room, we keep it in the warmest room as plumber insisted this would solve it, it hasn't!
We've found the only way to stop it is to manually turn off the heating on the boiler and turn off all the thermostat valves on the radiators, we've had combi boilers before and got to say with the manual dial controls never had this issues, turned it up, clicked, heating on, warmed up, turn it off, if set it on/off, this thing seems to do what it wants when it wants!
Am dreading another winter looming, apart from anything else it's labour intensive to have to turn off the entire controls in the wireless control, the boiler itself AND the room radiators when want to be sure the thing won't turn on, we've had it set to come on morning/evening as out in day and bingo, come home to a tropical rainforest as it's decided to heat up all day, this of course also means using a ridiculous amount of gas which then means to save money have to turn it off when in the house, we just can't trust it to run properly!
it's covered with e.on but their engineer states nothing wrong with it and just don't seem interested, far as they're concerned it heats water and radiators so what's the issue but it's not running as it should, I want a boiler can set with controls to heat up a warm house to get up to and a warm house to come home to, safe in the knowledge it's not heating for 5 hours when not even there, are we just being thick, is there a magical switch to sort this out, or can you have a ye olde dial control fitted to the boiler so can just turn on/off when want to like used to? actually used less gas with the old header tank as least could control that!
we've put the settings on the wireless as low as can go for the 'auto-anti frost' thing, think is 10 degrees set at, the wireless control is kept in the hottest room in the house and even in winter it's not read below 17 degrees in there so it's not the auto-setting that's causing it with temp drops, am at a loss, it even kicked in during the heatwave in summer, just what wanted, heating on when house was boiling as was, ended up having to turn off the boiler to stop it as it was having nothing!
Help!!!! am starting to think boiler is a dodgy one as plumber doesn't want to know and neither do e.on, I just want a boiler that works when want it too and saves me money not costs a fortune and dread turning on as know it'll do what it seems to want to do!
Problem is the heating, even when set it to timed only it fires up when it feels like it, this results in a tropical rainforest at 3am or the thing heats the house all day when not in, we've set the temps for auto-firing to prevent frost damage as low as it can go, think 10 degrees from memory and still it fires up, it's controlled with a wireless thermostat which has never read lower than 17 degrees even in the coldest room, we keep it in the warmest room as plumber insisted this would solve it, it hasn't!
We've found the only way to stop it is to manually turn off the heating on the boiler and turn off all the thermostat valves on the radiators, we've had combi boilers before and got to say with the manual dial controls never had this issues, turned it up, clicked, heating on, warmed up, turn it off, if set it on/off, this thing seems to do what it wants when it wants!
Am dreading another winter looming, apart from anything else it's labour intensive to have to turn off the entire controls in the wireless control, the boiler itself AND the room radiators when want to be sure the thing won't turn on, we've had it set to come on morning/evening as out in day and bingo, come home to a tropical rainforest as it's decided to heat up all day, this of course also means using a ridiculous amount of gas which then means to save money have to turn it off when in the house, we just can't trust it to run properly!
it's covered with e.on but their engineer states nothing wrong with it and just don't seem interested, far as they're concerned it heats water and radiators so what's the issue but it's not running as it should, I want a boiler can set with controls to heat up a warm house to get up to and a warm house to come home to, safe in the knowledge it's not heating for 5 hours when not even there, are we just being thick, is there a magical switch to sort this out, or can you have a ye olde dial control fitted to the boiler so can just turn on/off when want to like used to? actually used less gas with the old header tank as least could control that!
we've put the settings on the wireless as low as can go for the 'auto-anti frost' thing, think is 10 degrees set at, the wireless control is kept in the hottest room in the house and even in winter it's not read below 17 degrees in there so it's not the auto-setting that's causing it with temp drops, am at a loss, it even kicked in during the heatwave in summer, just what wanted, heating on when house was boiling as was, ended up having to turn off the boiler to stop it as it was having nothing!
Help!!!! am starting to think boiler is a dodgy one as plumber doesn't want to know and neither do e.on, I just want a boiler that works when want it too and saves me money not costs a fortune and dread turning on as know it'll do what it seems to want to do!
