Is anyone handy with a gas boiler?

Scuzi said:
You can rest assured that a professional has been called to deal with it. In the meantime I'm going to send myself to my room without any lunch so I can have a good think about what a silly boy I have been.
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I wouldn't be so harsh on yourself, fair play for having the balls to have a go and fix it yourself. If you'd had posted on here "just paid £100 to have an engineer refill my boiler" everyone would be posting that you should have done it yourself.

This time you were unlucky, 9 times out of ten what you did would have worked, I've just refilled my boiler with the help over the phone of a mate who knew what he was doing, but it was pretty much trial and error, turned out ok though and saved myself the cost of an engineer.
 
You certainly did the right thing in trying Scuzi, as has been pointed out this is not a job for the experts if everything is working ok. It would be like taking your car to a mechanic to get the windscreen washer fluid filled up. I can't believe people haven't got the courage/brains to take on even the most simplest of tasks these days.

Hope you get it sorted soon mate, bad luck with it breaking!
 
Seriously, you've just been unlucky. The filling loop is definitely a consumer control. I've taught little old ladies how to do it. Yours was just broken unfortunately :( . The filling loop is easy to replace, I've taken them apart numerous times to fix leaks or replace other parts behind it. Everything is made of cheap black plastic which pin-holes because most don't have a miniature expansion vessel fitted on the cold main.. but I digress.
 
Not to worry, a plumber is on his way! I'm very lucky too as this plumber seems to be a leading scientist. He has managed to bend space time and has mastered travel at greater than the speed of light. Since 2pm I have called him on an hourly basis and every time he is exactly 10 minutes away. In the space of one hour he managed to travel from Brighton to Dorchester and then back to Southampton.

My boiler is one lucky fella, he's going to be worked on by the best!
 
I'm still in shock seeing pictures with the dials turned fully to HOT :eek:

You do know that even turning it down marginally will have no noticeable effect on the heat but could actually save you money!!!

Re the ISO valve, It looks open anyway. Ours was a push and twist style tap. Check there is no another ISO valve further down the cold water feed,
 
St0rmer66 said:
Seriously, you've just been unlucky. The filling loop is definitely a consumer control. I've taught little old ladies how to do it. Yours was just broken unfortunately :( . The filling loop is easy to replace, I've taken them apart numerous times to fix leaks or replace other parts behind it. Everything is made of cheap black plastic which pin-holes because most don't have a miniature expansion vessel fitted on the cold main.. but I digress.
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and it seems Worcester are the only manufactures that state this in the instruction book - zimlet make them and can be bought for approx 13 quid nice .5ltr ss version.

As far as I know it's to stop back pressure down the cold feed from the hot water heat exchanger once the hot tap has been turned off, but if the primary hot tap is 1.8 Mt+ in pipework from the heat exchanger you can get away without fitting one. I have quizzed Vaillant about it and they have no idea couldn't be bothered to ask any other manufacturer.

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Lucero said:
I'm still in shock seeing pictures with the dials turned fully to HOT :eek:

You do know that even turning it down marginally will have no noticeable effect on the heat but could actually save you money!!!

Re the ISO valve, It looks open anyway. Ours was a push and twist style tap. Check there is no another ISO valve further down the cold water feed,
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if there was another iso valve further down the cold feed and this was off there would be no hot water to the taps even when it was working.
 
Dutch777 said:
To top up and pressurise the system sometimes there is a Tap and or a screw to let water in like the one below

http://www.wickes.co.uk/Straight-Filling-Loop/invt/160094

We have had a couple of the tap ones break :( when they go they will not let water in.
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If it's new(ish) it should have a fairly easy to find tap. Ours has one and it broke once and keep letting water in until the boiler shut down due to over pressure and dumped the excess water.

Replaced with a metal valve under warranty.

Our boiler runs around 0.9 during the summer (hot water only) and 1.3 during the winter.
 
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