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Boilers Not Working
Here's the problem
My mother thinks her boiler is not working - its a combi and the water is heating but the radiators are not coming on and the dial is not 'clicking' when she turns it.
Now I would have thought that its simply too warm for the thermostat to tell the radiators to warm up (apparently it did come on in the middle of the night on Friday). But the thing is my mother is 86 and terrified of A) being cold B) her heating not working.
Am I right or could there be another reason? I have looked on the website but the brochure on there is not very helpful at all.
BTW - its a Worcester - Greenstar 24i boiler
As always I am so grateful for any help
My mother thinks her boiler is not working - its a combi and the water is heating but the radiators are not coming on and the dial is not 'clicking' when she turns it.
Now I would have thought that its simply too warm for the thermostat to tell the radiators to warm up (apparently it did come on in the middle of the night on Friday). But the thing is my mother is 86 and terrified of A) being cold B) her heating not working.
Am I right or could there be another reason? I have looked on the website but the brochure on there is not very helpful at all.
BTW - its a Worcester - Greenstar 24i boiler
As always I am so grateful for any help
Answers
The usual suspect is the 2-way valve in the boiler, stuck on Hot Water and not going over to direct the water to the Heating system. That wouldn't stop the wall thermostat from clicking though. I would suspect a faulty WallStat first. Simple substitution , or even bypassing it would tell you for sure.
18:59 Tue 05th Aug 2014
The usual suspect is the 2-way valve in the boiler, stuck on Hot Water and not going over to direct the water to the Heating system.
That wouldn't stop the wall thermostat from clicking though. I would suspect a faulty WallStat first. Simple substitution, or even bypassing it would tell you for sure.
That wouldn't stop the wall thermostat from clicking though. I would suspect a faulty WallStat first. Simple substitution, or even bypassing it would tell you for sure.