Hi all,
new gas engineer so not seen a lot. Father in law has the above mentioned boiler and he mentioned he could hear boiler running all night. I checked obvious that heating wasnt on etc etc
there seems to be a pattern, pressure is lost over two/3 weeks ( since new rads but cant find leak anywhere) and then is when he hears it running all the time.
He called me today and said pressure low again and boiler sounds like it's running all the time. I went round straight away, i heard it running sounded like pump and maybe slow fan (no burner and norhing calling for heat) so topped up pressure and took case off , pump was roasting hot so must have been on for ages. I bled it from screw at front a bit of air came out then water. I turned boiler off and restarted it then fan and pump came on, so did burner for a second or two then went back off. Silent....
im thinking it has something to do with the pressure going and then they use boiler as normal but why does it run normally with no pressure (i say normally but not known if heating actually worked)? Thought they were designed to not work with no pressure.
please dont abuse me for my lack of knowledge or whatever im trying to learn and am keen to, every bit of knowledge and experience i get all helps, and I appreciate all the advice and experience you guys can offer/share.
i will check expansion vessel tomorrow and top up if needed too
new gas engineer so not seen a lot. Father in law has the above mentioned boiler and he mentioned he could hear boiler running all night. I checked obvious that heating wasnt on etc etc
there seems to be a pattern, pressure is lost over two/3 weeks ( since new rads but cant find leak anywhere) and then is when he hears it running all the time.
He called me today and said pressure low again and boiler sounds like it's running all the time. I went round straight away, i heard it running sounded like pump and maybe slow fan (no burner and norhing calling for heat) so topped up pressure and took case off , pump was roasting hot so must have been on for ages. I bled it from screw at front a bit of air came out then water. I turned boiler off and restarted it then fan and pump came on, so did burner for a second or two then went back off. Silent....
im thinking it has something to do with the pressure going and then they use boiler as normal but why does it run normally with no pressure (i say normally but not known if heating actually worked)? Thought they were designed to not work with no pressure.
please dont abuse me for my lack of knowledge or whatever im trying to learn and am keen to, every bit of knowledge and experience i get all helps, and I appreciate all the advice and experience you guys can offer/share.
i will check expansion vessel tomorrow and top up if needed too
