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  1. Ant0912

    Fire valve external oil boiler

    We have an external grant vortex pro and the fire valve is on the oil supply line 1.4m away from the boiler . Read somewhere should be a distance of minimum 1 metre away . The sensor end is clipped into clip above the burner correctly . Just wondered if the fire valve should be closer or if...
  2. F

    Open vented system, No HW, CH works fine, BAXI 80HE boiler shows Dry Fire after every restart

    Hi, I have an open vented system with Cylinder and F&E tank in the loft. I have noticed for about 2 weeks now that the hot water has been gradually getting less hot and currently is only luke warm. I tried raising the termostat on the cylinder which does not seem to take any effect. I do not...
    • Fandyman
    • Thread
    • baxi boiler fire system
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Boilers
  3. J

    Gas valve on fire?

    Hi everyone, My customer has a gas fire (Gazco Logic HE fire, about 10 years old). It's a slide control fire. The fire has become difficult to light. One has to push a lot more firmly down on the control slide to get it to light. At which point, all is fine. The pilot is good, new battery...
  4. W

    "Fire hydrant" valve - wrong way round?

    Hi, I am going to a job tomorrow where the customar says they have a 1 inch square valve head (what i would call a fire hydrant valve, maybe theres another name) in a manhole that turns the wrong way ie. Anticlockwise is off and clockwise is on. I'm in the Midlands and customer says some...
  5. C

    Flavel Firenza Gas Fire

    My 2yr old grand-daughter decided to post her Christmas Card through the gap at the top of the fire I cannot see any screws to release the cover enough to retrieve this card Loathe to use the fire incase the Card/envelope with catch fire Any help locating the cover release screws
    • colchester
    • Thread
    • fire gas engineer gas fire
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Gas Engineers Forum
  6. C

    Gas bottle fire: Pilot light lifts and trips thermocouple

    I have a portable gas fire which keeps switching off. The pilot light lifts for 10 seconds, critically above the thermocouple and then the gas cuts out. It i smore noticeable when I walk past it and stir a slight breeze. I have blown out the pilot light assembly and it worked for an entire day...
  7. J

    Can I remove a disconnected gas fire,leaving the back boiler in place?

    Hi all, I am a plumber but I do not carry out works to boilers as the majority of my is bathrooms so I am not gas safe. I have completed a bathroom for a regular customer. She is of old age and is starting to get a little clumsy and her son has asked me to look at the old gas fire/back...
    • Jcuk691
    • Thread
    • back boiler boiler fire gas engineer gas fire
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Boilers
  8. I

    Open fire with back boiler

    when I removed the back coal saver I can now see the mental back boiler. I could not see the back boiler when I put the coal saver in place last year . Do I recover the metal back boiler in fire cement or is their something better. The fire cement at the bottom of the photo is where I block...
  9. J

    Cant refill heating system back boiler run off parkray coal fire

    My father has a parkray fire which has a back boiler . He had a leaky radiator, when he was attempting to fix leak the circulating pump (grundfos) was making a rattling noise this stopped once the radiator leak was fixed ( he lost a fair bit of water ) . The problem being now is that the...
    • julzproc
    • Thread
    • back boiler boiler fire heating heating system system
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Boilers
  10. O

    HRM Starflow 50/85 won't fire up, serial no 1099/50/299

    Hi, Newbie here so feel free to teach me the etiquette of this place, and apologies for the lengthy opening post. The boiler started locking out on Friday after a long period of faultless running, there was a bit of gunk on the back of the (newish) nozzle (Danfoss Nozzle 0.65 x 80 EH) ...
  11. F

    CH on Wiser controller doesn't fire the boiler up

    Our current heating system has a Potterton EP2002 controller and Potterton Prima 60F boiler. I have bought a Wiser multi-zone kit 2 plus a number of Wiser TRVs in order to have easier and more fine-grained control. Replacing the EP2002 with the Wiser hub simply involved swapping the wallplate...
  12. P

    Fire risk behind dryer?

    In the hole for my dryer I had a little bit of skirting board, I removed it so that I could push my dryer back further. Upon removing it I see pink foam, I have concerns about the heat from the dryer and a fire risk. What can be done? I know I could add the skirting board back but I want to...
  13. G

    Pressure drop not enough to fire dhw combi

    Currently have 14Mx15mm run from combi to tap dhw. If I replaced the last 6M section with 22mm pipe would this help? Taps closer to boiler have no problems firing the boiler.
  14. urebaz78

    Using fire to heat radiators

    My current set up (images attached). I can heat my hot water tank (oldWood Fire.jpg) using the coal/wood fire , however how would I be able to use the fire to heat my radiators (7). I have recently moved into the house and I just cant see how its done. What would I need to buy to enable this...
  15. A

    Oil boiler fire after service

    Hi we had a recent service on our 40 year old Thorn oil boiler, we fire it up for the 1st time since the service todayfor got water, after 20 mins there was black smoke bellowing from the cabinet and flames inside. Going off the photos is there any obvious pointers to what went wrong? Thanks in...
    • Andyb77
    • Thread
    • boiler fire oil boiler service
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Boilers
  16. T

    Gas fire supply pipe leak

    Be careful cutting coated pipe people. Went to a pretty bad leak today. House was empty, neighbours reported the smell of gas. Fire was installed 8 years ago....lucky
  17. C

    Dog turns on gas hob and starts chip pan fire

    Just in case you missed this astonishing video on the BBC website: news/av/world-us-canada-61838411 I've never liked touch controls on gas hob much... I can't post the full link without the forum software mangling it. Search for "Dog turns on stove and starts house fire"
  18. B

    Hot Water alone doesn’t fire up the boiler

    Hi, We have a problem with our Hot Water coming on. Sometimes it works and we have Hot Water and other times it doesn’t. There doesn’t seem to be a pattern that I can see. when it doesn’t work the only way to get the boiler to fire up is to put the heating on for an extra hour. When you cancel...
    • Bradley31
    • Thread
    • boiler fire hot water water
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Boilers
  19. U

    Drained CH system, boiler won't fire

    I drained the system to replace the pump with a WIlo, and to add Fernox system cleaner. I will confess that I forgot to drain it in an organised way (ie I didn't open the radiator bleed screws as the level dropped). I had a helluva tussle with the old pump - the valves wouldn't undo, no space...
  20. F

    Open fire Back Boiler

    We got an open fireplace with a back Boiler it also feeds the radiators with a pump, the water goes via the back boiler through a coil under a hot water cylinder heating the hot water. My question is, if the hot water would be connected to a pump EG pumping the water passed the back boiler...
    • freefkow
    • Thread
    • back boiler boiler fire
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Boilers
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