heating and pressure

[Queenbee spk]

Hiya, please excuse my ignorance and daftness, but here goes. My shower has stopped working, the pressure gage on my boiler is showing way below 1, how do I get it to where its meant to be? What does the valve look like that I need to adjust. Please help Im a damsel in distress and I need to know how to do it without having to phone an engineer and pay him daft amounts of money. Thanks !

[almcd007]

It sounds like you need to refill your system from the cold inlet valve as the pressure has dropped, turning off the pilot for safety.

If you can identify it from your handbook you just need to fill it to the recomended pressure (bar) and your boiler will more than likely spark back up. Often it is a blue turn knob or can be a screwdriver type slot - but you need to identify it on your boiler first. On mine it is the blue turn knob. All I need to do is turn it so you can hear cold water rushing into the system and watch the pressure meter increase. Depending on your boiler - fill it to at least 1.5bar, stop filling and try and turn your hot water on. It should then flare up.

[Queenbee spk]

I found it and got it working. Thanks very much your help is hugely appreciated