Gas boiler repair - recommendations please

macman


Joined: 15/12/2008
Posts: 24

Message Posted:
24/07/2009 10:36

Can anyone recommend someone to repair a gas central heating boiler. We have a Solaris combi boiler (made by Demir Dokum) which is approximately 2 years old. It ignites and works for central heating, but won't run hot water. Looking to getting it repaired ready for winter months.

catalkoykid


Joined: 15/02/2009
Posts: 1190

Message Posted:
24/07/2009 10:51

have you got the valves shut off to the roof tank, wont get hot water without cant run both im afraid

macman


Joined: 15/12/2008
Posts: 24

Message Posted:
24/07/2009 11:18

Hi Catalkoykid

Yes we did shut off the valves to the roof tank. It was working fine during the first year after the system was installed, but we started getting problems earlier this year. First the hot water would only come on intermittently, running hot initially then running cold. Towards the end of the winter we could only use the boiler for central heating and had to switch over to using the immersion heater for hot water supply.

racoonchic



Joined: 17/11/2008
Posts: 3223

Message Posted:
24/07/2009 17:08

its probably the heat exchanger bunged with limescale

AlexF065


Joined: 07/09/2009
Posts: 271

Message Posted:
10/09/2009 09:30

if the heat exchanger was bunged with limescale the boiler would be screaming

it sounds to me as though the diverter valve has packed up

Alex

gas engineer GB

TRNCVaughan


Joined: 27/04/2008
Posts: 4578

Message Posted:
10/09/2009 09:43

Don't be tempted to get a "plumber" to fix the boiler - try and get a CORGI type gas engineer to help you sort it.

AlexF065


Joined: 07/09/2009
Posts: 271

Message Posted:
10/09/2009 10:13

Corgi is now defunct "Tony" gave the contact to GAS SAFE and the HSE

maria1975


Joined: 22/07/2009
Posts: 106

Message Posted:
10/09/2009 20:06

ring brian, he is a registered boiler engineer for past 40 years . he will sort boiler no probs. 05338809218

Brinsley


Joined: 04/04/2009
Posts: 6858

Message Posted:
10/09/2009 20:43

Parachutes free diving suddenly realised that the two (one emergency) chutes weren't working and as the landmass was quickly approaching, panicking, spotted a man rising from the ground and in desperation screamed, "Do you know anything about parachutes?". "No" came the reply,"What do you know about gas ovens?"!



Richard