Boiler help please!

[Titchy82]

I have a Baxi Solo HE boiler which is approximately 2 years old, however the control panel and thermostat are a lot older than that, possible 20+ years.

The problem I'm having is that I cannot control when the boiler comes on with the control panel. Usually we have the heating set to continuous and then control when it comes on with the thermostat. At the moment, it just seems to come on when it wants. Both the hot water and heating switches are on yet the boiler is not firing up, yet in a couple of hours time, it will probably come on.

I've had an electrician look at it and he said that there is no electric going into the boiler, but If that's true how can it periodically work?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

 

[franky]

He might of meant theres a fault with the electric going to the boiler i.e loose wire. What did he say to do to fix it? why didn't he fix it if it was wrong?

 

[Titchy82]

He said there was no electric coming out of the control panel, but that just doesn't sound right to me because how is it still firing up? We couldn't get the control panel off the wall and tbh he's a mate of mine and didn't want to break anything because he's not a heating engineer and doesn't deal with boilers.

 

[diamondgas]

Titchy82 :welcome: --- Not all electricians are familiar or competent with central heating system wiring 🙂 A GSR engineer is more likely to know the problem to be honest.

Could be a diverter not switching to heating only, first thoughts. If you have a cylinder thermostat try turning it up to max plus the roomstat to max and see if the boiler fires and the heating also comes on.

 

[Titchy82]

Thanks for the advice