combi boiler

[gavinwilson]

can anyone tell me please ,if working on hot water do you have to turn off the boiler,can it cause problems if so what kind of problems can you encounter not turning the boiler off. recently moved hot water pipe and was sure i turned the boiler off, anyway boiler started having trouble gas engineer said at first it was the fan then when he replaced that (to no effect) he said it was the pcb and said the cause was the fact the boiler wasnt switched off while working on hot water.

 

[GQuigley67]

the boiler senses the flow of water through the plate heat exchanger when a hot tap is opened and then fires up(boilers require around 2.5 litres minmum per minute to fire up) if you turned water off and were working on the hot water pipework there should be no damage done to the boiler as when the flow of water stops the boiler should also.

 

[gavinwilson]

i know for sure i turned the mains off but the gas engineer statement got me questioning myself about turning the boiler off,

 

[Mike Jackson]

He's talking out of his backside to cover the fact that he's not confident in what he's doing.

 

[kay-jay]

He's talking out of his backside to cover the fact that he's not confident in what he's doing.

proven by the fact he's failed to identify the issue and is swapping parts willy nilly hoping to get it fixed.

op - i hope your not being held responsible for the gsr charges?
p.s what part of bolton are you from?

 

[gavinwilson]

thnxs for the response folks,i thought i hadnt done anything wrong but wasn`t 100%.im from the exclusive area called breightmet kay jay,it was a job for the bro in law so its not that bad (he got it free) and i can now tell him his father in law officially is a heap of efluent (he`s the gsr)

 

[kay-jay]

I'm from horwich. I know breightmet well. Work round there occasionally


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[gavinwilson]

used to go school in horwich,rivi n blackrod

 

[kay-jay]

Me too. Small world eh?

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