Hi,
Almost last resort to call out an engineer, but as it’s so close to Christmas I doubt anything will be done until the New Year.
Apologies for the long post in advance, I’m sure the more info is given helps with responses and means less questions needs to be asked!?
We have a 3 bedroom house, with a Vaillant Ecotec 618 system boiler, hot water cylinder installed around 3 years ago. We had 2 wireless stats, one for downstairs and one for upstairs, and we have a hot water controller.
We’ve recently had some renovation works done and replaced all radiators (6) on the ground floor. The downstairs wireless stat was decommissioned, and the relay box was removed, we replaced it with a fixed controller downstairs.
Since the work has been done, we’ve noticed that the water is barely hot enough to get two showers out of it in the morning. Heating during the day/evening, not much an issue if it’s a relatively warm day.
On really cold days, the radiators can’t get raging hot, they’re a very steady ‘warm’ temperature and we run out of hot water for showers in the morning by the 2nd one, even though the hot water controller has told the boiler to heat the hot water 3 hours prior to having a shower, so there should be enough hot water after 3 hours of boiler heating it.
We don’t have a stat on the hot water controller, but have one attached to the front of the cylinder, which is also linked to the immersion I believe. I’ve turned this up twice, from 50 to 60 and then from 60 to 70 degrees, this hasn’t had an effect.
The boiler never shows the tap symbol, even though the hot water controller is on and is supposed to be telling the boiler to sort some hot water for us.
Boiler is at around 2.2 bar pressure.
The boiler, when fired up is always showing a flashing radiator/gate symbol.
This morning at 5am I checked that the boiler was fired up when the hot water controller had told it to, and checked that the heating wasn’t on. The hot water controller had fired up the boiler, the heating wasn’t on, but on the boiler it wasn’t showing a tap symbol, but again showing a flashing radiator/gate symbol. If the radiator/gate symbol is supposed to be ‘heating mode’, then why is this on when the boiler should be generating hot water?
Any thoughts would be appreciated, even if I do need the engineer in, I'd still like to understand the general reason/issue/problem and potential solution to get us back to normal.
Cheers
Almost last resort to call out an engineer, but as it’s so close to Christmas I doubt anything will be done until the New Year.
Apologies for the long post in advance, I’m sure the more info is given helps with responses and means less questions needs to be asked!?
We have a 3 bedroom house, with a Vaillant Ecotec 618 system boiler, hot water cylinder installed around 3 years ago. We had 2 wireless stats, one for downstairs and one for upstairs, and we have a hot water controller.
We’ve recently had some renovation works done and replaced all radiators (6) on the ground floor. The downstairs wireless stat was decommissioned, and the relay box was removed, we replaced it with a fixed controller downstairs.
Since the work has been done, we’ve noticed that the water is barely hot enough to get two showers out of it in the morning. Heating during the day/evening, not much an issue if it’s a relatively warm day.
On really cold days, the radiators can’t get raging hot, they’re a very steady ‘warm’ temperature and we run out of hot water for showers in the morning by the 2nd one, even though the hot water controller has told the boiler to heat the hot water 3 hours prior to having a shower, so there should be enough hot water after 3 hours of boiler heating it.
We don’t have a stat on the hot water controller, but have one attached to the front of the cylinder, which is also linked to the immersion I believe. I’ve turned this up twice, from 50 to 60 and then from 60 to 70 degrees, this hasn’t had an effect.
The boiler never shows the tap symbol, even though the hot water controller is on and is supposed to be telling the boiler to sort some hot water for us.
Boiler is at around 2.2 bar pressure.
The boiler, when fired up is always showing a flashing radiator/gate symbol.
This morning at 5am I checked that the boiler was fired up when the hot water controller had told it to, and checked that the heating wasn’t on. The hot water controller had fired up the boiler, the heating wasn’t on, but on the boiler it wasn’t showing a tap symbol, but again showing a flashing radiator/gate symbol. If the radiator/gate symbol is supposed to be ‘heating mode’, then why is this on when the boiler should be generating hot water?
Any thoughts would be appreciated, even if I do need the engineer in, I'd still like to understand the general reason/issue/problem and potential solution to get us back to normal.
Cheers
