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SimonNitschke
Hi everyone,
My family has just taken on a rental in Scotland. We've moved from Australia and don't have experience with gas central heating at all.
The place we rented has a Sime Friendly Format 80 that does instant hot water and central heating. The agent had it inspected just before we moved in, and it was running perfectly.
The place also has a pre-paid gas meter and that's also new to us - long story short, we learnt the hard way about how prepaid gas works, and we ran out.
Since sorting the gas, the boiler wont fire up - we've read the manual and followed the instructions, but with no success. We have gas at the cook top, so the gas is defiantly flowing.
Am I right in thinking that the boiler has shut it self down when it tried to fire with no gas, and needs to be reset some how? Is there something simple that I can do, like lift a cover and press a button or do we need an Engineer?
Also, there are two lights on the front of the unit - one green one that comes on with power, and a second red one right above it - the manual doesn't say what the red light is for - is it lit when the flame is on, or is it an error light? I didn't pay attention to it when the boiler was functioning, and wish I had.
And finally, when we were trying to get it lit, I turned on a small black tap below the boiler and could hear water flowing fast and the pressure gauge shot up past 2 bar momentarily. I turned it off, but it then fell below 1 bar - is this small tap used to regulate the pressure, and should I bump it on slightly to return the pressure to about 1 bar?
Thanks very much!
My family has just taken on a rental in Scotland. We've moved from Australia and don't have experience with gas central heating at all.
The place we rented has a Sime Friendly Format 80 that does instant hot water and central heating. The agent had it inspected just before we moved in, and it was running perfectly.
The place also has a pre-paid gas meter and that's also new to us - long story short, we learnt the hard way about how prepaid gas works, and we ran out.
Since sorting the gas, the boiler wont fire up - we've read the manual and followed the instructions, but with no success. We have gas at the cook top, so the gas is defiantly flowing.
Am I right in thinking that the boiler has shut it self down when it tried to fire with no gas, and needs to be reset some how? Is there something simple that I can do, like lift a cover and press a button or do we need an Engineer?
Also, there are two lights on the front of the unit - one green one that comes on with power, and a second red one right above it - the manual doesn't say what the red light is for - is it lit when the flame is on, or is it an error light? I didn't pay attention to it when the boiler was functioning, and wish I had.
And finally, when we were trying to get it lit, I turned on a small black tap below the boiler and could hear water flowing fast and the pressure gauge shot up past 2 bar momentarily. I turned it off, but it then fell below 1 bar - is this small tap used to regulate the pressure, and should I bump it on slightly to return the pressure to about 1 bar?
Thanks very much!
