I have just moved into my first home 
. I am having alot of trouble with the boiler unfortunately. It is a Myson Apollo 30/50 installed 1988.
So I appreciate this is an old boiler to say the least and I know I need to plan to get it replaced, probably before next winter. However, I'd like to know if I have any options for now.
The timer on the boiler is broken so I have it set to continuous with the thermostat set at 15c when I am away and 20c when I am in. This did work well for a while, but now I am finding when I set it to 20c the boiler fires, heats up the house as normal and then goes off. Great, no problems.
Then however about 30 minutes later it will fire again and this is when it gets stuck in an endless loop. It fires for 20 seconds, goes off for 30 seconds, comes back on for 20 seconds. The cycle goes on and on seemingly forever until I turn down the thermostat.
If I turn it down to say 18c it will do the same thing after a little while later. It seems to stop cycling at around 16c.
I have had a Gas Safe engineer attend and performed a full service. But the issue remains. The engineer was not able to repeat the fault at the time. He commented however such an issue would be very difficult to solve.
I figured I would ask for help on here to see if anyone has any advice on what the problem might be or where I can look, or give an engineer a "steer" on what the problem could be. Would appreciate any thoughts anyone has
. I am having alot of trouble with the boiler unfortunately. It is a Myson Apollo 30/50 installed 1988.So I appreciate this is an old boiler to say the least and I know I need to plan to get it replaced, probably before next winter. However, I'd like to know if I have any options for now.
The timer on the boiler is broken so I have it set to continuous with the thermostat set at 15c when I am away and 20c when I am in. This did work well for a while, but now I am finding when I set it to 20c the boiler fires, heats up the house as normal and then goes off. Great, no problems.
Then however about 30 minutes later it will fire again and this is when it gets stuck in an endless loop. It fires for 20 seconds, goes off for 30 seconds, comes back on for 20 seconds. The cycle goes on and on seemingly forever until I turn down the thermostat.
If I turn it down to say 18c it will do the same thing after a little while later. It seems to stop cycling at around 16c.
I have had a Gas Safe engineer attend and performed a full service. But the issue remains. The engineer was not able to repeat the fault at the time. He commented however such an issue would be very difficult to solve.
I figured I would ask for help on here to see if anyone has any advice on what the problem might be or where I can look, or give an engineer a "steer" on what the problem could be. Would appreciate any thoughts anyone has
