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Our boiler, Hideaway100B, which was purchased 9 years ago, stopped working and I decided to have a look. I have done most of the plumbing around it anyway, but I had never looked into the boiler before.
The symptoms were that the flame would go out, and I would have to restart the pilot light and all. Then, once on, the flames would be red and not blue.
I took out the burner and looked at the back, at the very end there was a bucketfull of pine needles and other debris that the wind must have blown in. It was most all cindered / black / dry. After I cleaned that I noticed 3 panels, 2 on the sides and 1 at the back made of some kind of heat insulating material at a guess, white in colour.
The back panel had become un-hinged on the left hand side and was hanging in an awkward position, so it took me a while to replace the missing rivet with a screw to hold it in place.
While I was doing that work, I inadevertently scracthed the side panel and it gave off a white cloud of dust which I inhaled as my head was close and the draft was blowing it in my face.
Can those panels be made of asbestos ? I looked at the service manual and there is no mentioning of asbestos panels but I am worried. I have also sent an email to Glow-Worm from their website, but no replies so far.
Thanks
The symptoms were that the flame would go out, and I would have to restart the pilot light and all. Then, once on, the flames would be red and not blue.
I took out the burner and looked at the back, at the very end there was a bucketfull of pine needles and other debris that the wind must have blown in. It was most all cindered / black / dry. After I cleaned that I noticed 3 panels, 2 on the sides and 1 at the back made of some kind of heat insulating material at a guess, white in colour.
The back panel had become un-hinged on the left hand side and was hanging in an awkward position, so it took me a while to replace the missing rivet with a screw to hold it in place.
While I was doing that work, I inadevertently scracthed the side panel and it gave off a white cloud of dust which I inhaled as my head was close and the draft was blowing it in my face.
Can those panels be made of asbestos ? I looked at the service manual and there is no mentioning of asbestos panels but I am worried. I have also sent an email to Glow-Worm from their website, but no replies so far.
Thanks
, to be honest there was probably more chance of killing yourself from the boiler thats not been serviced in 9yrs.
