Hi All
I tried posting this already and lost post so here goes again. I'll start from the beginning so please bare with me.
Few Months ago I was getting intermittent heating with occasional flame error code on my ICOS HE12. British gas engineer came out when the system was working and checked everything over finding nothing wrong, I explained the error code and he said it was a power issue according to the code (forget the code now) possibly underpower issue. There was also a small leak which was repaired and confirmed causing no issue with electrics.
So he said to keep an eye on it and recommended i replace the boiler as it was going to start causing me more stress (11 years old)
I woke up on new years eve to no heating or hot water. No power to the boiler at all, it just would not switch on. I got an emergency engineer out who diagnosed a faulty PCB, trouble being this would have to wait till the merchants opened again before it could be ordered.
Between then and now the boiler has been randomly sparking into life and sounding as though it was working for an hour or so every so often. When this would happen I would get some luke warm hot water form taps and up stairs rads would be slightly warm to the touch but nothin on the down stairs rads. Eventually the bouler would cut out again and not power on.
So a long week has passed wit my 3 year old developing chicken pox and having to love in an ice cold house, and today the engineer returned to replace the PCB. He did this then reported no power getting from switch to boiler. He said this was now a job for a spark and left.
10 minutes later the boiler sparked up (as it had been) no error codes but no heating just temporary luke warm hot water.
I got a spark out within an hour who said that it wasn't a spark issue as power was clearly getting to the boiler. I explained it wont last but as it was "fine" when he was here there was no fault to diagnose other than no heating which is an issue for a heating engineer. I phoned the eating engineer who cannot come back till monday and he as suggested he is stumped but "MIGHT BE THE ZONE VALVE".
He has been gone an hour and the boiler is now dead again. Neither engineer seems to want to properly help me here.
I am not in a position to replace the boiler as I don't have a few grand sitting around having just wasted £190 on a PCB and 3 engineer visits with no joy.
Any advise that I can take to an engineer greatly appreciated. My wife and son are freezing and I need to sort this out today.
Thanks
Scott
I tried posting this already and lost post so here goes again. I'll start from the beginning so please bare with me.
Few Months ago I was getting intermittent heating with occasional flame error code on my ICOS HE12. British gas engineer came out when the system was working and checked everything over finding nothing wrong, I explained the error code and he said it was a power issue according to the code (forget the code now) possibly underpower issue. There was also a small leak which was repaired and confirmed causing no issue with electrics.
So he said to keep an eye on it and recommended i replace the boiler as it was going to start causing me more stress (11 years old)
I woke up on new years eve to no heating or hot water. No power to the boiler at all, it just would not switch on. I got an emergency engineer out who diagnosed a faulty PCB, trouble being this would have to wait till the merchants opened again before it could be ordered.
Between then and now the boiler has been randomly sparking into life and sounding as though it was working for an hour or so every so often. When this would happen I would get some luke warm hot water form taps and up stairs rads would be slightly warm to the touch but nothin on the down stairs rads. Eventually the bouler would cut out again and not power on.
So a long week has passed wit my 3 year old developing chicken pox and having to love in an ice cold house, and today the engineer returned to replace the PCB. He did this then reported no power getting from switch to boiler. He said this was now a job for a spark and left.
10 minutes later the boiler sparked up (as it had been) no error codes but no heating just temporary luke warm hot water.
I got a spark out within an hour who said that it wasn't a spark issue as power was clearly getting to the boiler. I explained it wont last but as it was "fine" when he was here there was no fault to diagnose other than no heating which is an issue for a heating engineer. I phoned the eating engineer who cannot come back till monday and he as suggested he is stumped but "MIGHT BE THE ZONE VALVE".
He has been gone an hour and the boiler is now dead again. Neither engineer seems to want to properly help me here.
I am not in a position to replace the boiler as I don't have a few grand sitting around having just wasted £190 on a PCB and 3 engineer visits with no joy.
Any advise that I can take to an engineer greatly appreciated. My wife and son are freezing and I need to sort this out today.
Thanks
Scott