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Tommc
hi people, firstly thanks to all you guys who post advice and tips to help like guys like me out its greatly appreciated
now my problem, moved into my house 6 years ago it has a performa 24 thats about 7-8 years old, i had a dodgy plumber that was recomended to me, but he wasnt the best and ripped me off a bit.
the problem was that every 6 months or so the pilot light just wouldnt fire despite the boiler was sounding like it was about to, he came round charged me a fortune for all sorts of thermostats etc, but the problem remained so we joined BG homecare, they have been called out about 3 times for this and the 3rd time the guy who turned up told me i needed to keep the pressure topped up as it kept dropping and i told him it happened almost every day and needed topping up, so he said yeah just top it up every day and he also told me about a secret button that i wasnt allowed to know about thats would help the bolier fire back up (i have since found this button)
on monday i had BG round for an overdue service and guy asked about the pressure and i told him the story, he seems to think the 1st bloke should have known that the PRV had gone and requested it be fixed, he booked it in for the next day.
the 3rd guy came round, emptied the system, tried flogging me a magnabooster for £230 at the same time, but fixed the PRV and also done something to the pressure in the expansion tank(using a foot pump ?) all seemed well when he left but once again the following morning the pilot light again failed after a while and i needed to call him out again.
he then told me that the problem was an over heating safety that was probably being caused due to limescale and sludge in the HX and that the water wasnt able to pass through quick enough and that was tripping the overheat safety switch , and then told me the system needed powerflushed for £860 to clear the HX
i then spoke to my dads mate, a plumber for over 40 years, who told me just to take the HX off and clean it, so i took it off it didnt seem to be sludged at all compared to some i have seen on the net, there was a little rust colour so i cleaned it and descaled it anyway and put it back on, tured the stopcock on, filled the pressure using the filling loop to just over 1 bar, opened up the taps and bled the radiators to let any trapped air out, the boiler didnt fire up at all at first but did after a while, everything seemed fine, other than the boiler making a new funny grunt noise when switching the heating off, but again this morning the pilot didnt fire up and it has happened almost everyday since the PRV was changed rather than every 6 months, could someone please help me as im a bit stumpted as to what the problem is, but coming into the winter i would like to try sort it, without the £1000's that BG as looking at charging me
please any advice, ideas would really help thanks in advance people
now my problem, moved into my house 6 years ago it has a performa 24 thats about 7-8 years old, i had a dodgy plumber that was recomended to me, but he wasnt the best and ripped me off a bit.
the problem was that every 6 months or so the pilot light just wouldnt fire despite the boiler was sounding like it was about to, he came round charged me a fortune for all sorts of thermostats etc, but the problem remained so we joined BG homecare, they have been called out about 3 times for this and the 3rd time the guy who turned up told me i needed to keep the pressure topped up as it kept dropping and i told him it happened almost every day and needed topping up, so he said yeah just top it up every day and he also told me about a secret button that i wasnt allowed to know about thats would help the bolier fire back up (i have since found this button)
on monday i had BG round for an overdue service and guy asked about the pressure and i told him the story, he seems to think the 1st bloke should have known that the PRV had gone and requested it be fixed, he booked it in for the next day.
the 3rd guy came round, emptied the system, tried flogging me a magnabooster for £230 at the same time, but fixed the PRV and also done something to the pressure in the expansion tank(using a foot pump ?) all seemed well when he left but once again the following morning the pilot light again failed after a while and i needed to call him out again.
he then told me that the problem was an over heating safety that was probably being caused due to limescale and sludge in the HX and that the water wasnt able to pass through quick enough and that was tripping the overheat safety switch , and then told me the system needed powerflushed for £860 to clear the HX
i then spoke to my dads mate, a plumber for over 40 years, who told me just to take the HX off and clean it, so i took it off it didnt seem to be sludged at all compared to some i have seen on the net, there was a little rust colour so i cleaned it and descaled it anyway and put it back on, tured the stopcock on, filled the pressure using the filling loop to just over 1 bar, opened up the taps and bled the radiators to let any trapped air out, the boiler didnt fire up at all at first but did after a while, everything seemed fine, other than the boiler making a new funny grunt noise when switching the heating off, but again this morning the pilot didnt fire up and it has happened almost everyday since the PRV was changed rather than every 6 months, could someone please help me as im a bit stumpted as to what the problem is, but coming into the winter i would like to try sort it, without the £1000's that BG as looking at charging me
please any advice, ideas would really help thanks in advance people
