Well to add to all my fuckin problems - my boiler is now bolloxd!
Any ideas folks??? ...
Light the pilot light, all ok. Can leave it on and its fine.
Turn the boiler on and the jets come on (lit from the pilot)
However - when the jets come on, the pilot fades out.
Then it realises the pilot has gone out and in turn shuts the system down to prevent gas leak etc.
Any ideas???
Cheers
probably yor 'thingy',or yor 'wotsit'?-hav u8 checked both??
try with multimeter,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,'thingy' should be showing 1.73 volts ( multimeter set 0 to 200), wotsit should show some resistance, ( m/m set to lowest ohms point),,,,,,,,,
or try a new thermocouple?!?!,,,,,,,,,if u hav a 'trad' boiler-not combi,,,,,thats the long wire that pickks up yor spark ,looks like a sparkler but wiggly?
well.... sorted it!
Pulled frame off fire, then got the fire thingies out (That get hot) and unscrewed all the screws i could see.
Then pulled the whole fire out, which was surprisingly easy but still heavy.
Once behind the fire, i pulled random plates off. Wires and pipes flying everywhere at this point. Please try and picture it! Computer-Geek Vs Trad-Boiler! Bring it on.
Anyhow, all this plate things just kept sliding outta the way and stuff, few more screws follow and things start to actually FALL off. Eeeek.
Anyhoo... Matt breaks through to the brain of it all. Its FILTHY! So i give a good hard (yea yea, F.O!) blow on the jets and find myself in a HUGE clowd of smoke. Still cant figure out what happened there, must be a technical thing.
Hoover out, dry paint brush out, bit of cleaning up. All looks fine. Try to find adjuster for the pilot, but all the screws just make more bits fall off. Oooops. Anyhow, nothing seemed to fix the problem.
It was at this point that I thought to phone the gas board to come check the supply. When I though... "Supply". hmmm, lets go see the gas box thingy. Bit of digging reveals the gas meter and a big fuckin handle... which coincidentally appears to be only half-open.
Yes yes yes.... I'll call someone out next time! Fuckin ell.
3 hours later its all put back together.
good job you sorted?!! your boiler out matt,its plenty cool tonight in the shire of lincoln,
in fact, when i got in this evening i thought ,brrrr, bit chilly!
extra jumper or heating on,
' fraid the gas won, its quite toasty now,
hope your boiler is still staying mended! and warming you and g/friends cockles.
yes yes yes speedy claire,
nothing more romantic than sat in front of roaring fire roasting your nuts.
you REALLY cant beat a real fire, warms your bones in a cold snap!
didnt know you own a corgi matt!!!!!!
(plumbing joke!)
ROFabsolutelyPML @ MAtt's 'blonde' moment.
It reminds me of the time when my son was about 2 yrs old, I'd told him off for putting the kitten head first into a drinking mug and in a hissy fit, he turned off the switch for the central heating. Of course I hadn't seen him do it so I had no idea what was wrong so I called out the gas company to come and look at it. Boy was I embarrassed when the gas man said 'it helps if you switch it on' and I realised what my son had done, little bratling.
glad you got your boiler fixed matt,
last time i wrecked anything i took my comp to bits to "mend" it
big mistake it cost me loads to have it done right !!!!!
but i never learnt took my sons hi fi to bits soldered some wires back on, put it all back together and had half a dozen pieces left !!!! and no whre to put them
it died a death most horrid an got put in the dustbin
now make lists of wiring diagrams, an take pickies of the stuff before i investigate the prob !!!!
When I was doing my motorcycle mechanics course I used to sneak up on someone's job and put an oily bolt in his box of bits..... when he finished he would have one left over.