Boiler keeps kicking In?

[muldonach]

Hi there,

I have an external oil fired boiler which suddenly today seems to keep starting up every 5 to 10 minutes runs for a few minutes then shuts back down, any suggestions to what this could be? I did think it was perhaps a frost protection setting as the programmer is not calling for heat or hot water. However it is warmer today that the lags few days. The only thing I have done recently to the system was to balance the radiators as several weren't heating up.

any suggestions would be much appreciated.

its a boulter camray boiler 15/19 as I say external wall hung.

 

[mountainman]

Frost thermostat may be set a little high.

 

[kimbo]

Most externsl boilers have frost stats and they normally kick in at about 5 deg c .
It may have become faulty in any case a engineer would need to check it out

 

[SafeGasInstall]

+1 frost stat or could have a leak on the hot water pipes or ch thermostat

 

[Dotty]

+2 on frost stat.

 

[muldonach]

Cheers,

just seems strange when it was colder the other day it wasn't doing this, although wasn't really looking out for it. Will keep an eye on it as have a plumber lined up to replace the boiler in the next month or so anyway

 

[lame plumber]

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[tamz]

Probably the frost stat. Depends where your boiler is sited.
Up here there was an inch of frost this morning and it was a really nice sunny day, not a cloud in the sky.
I was doing a job on a south facing roof and all the frost had melted by half 9. By 11 i was peeling off the layers of clothes down to a tee shirt.
The other side of the roof however which had no sun stayed frosted all day so the temperature never rose much above freezing out of the sun.