oil boiler

Would any of you kind folks help me discover why oil is not reaching my boiler's burner nozzle? Is there a surefire way to check an oil pump is functioning? Following running out of oil, I fired up boiler and it went to lockout. The fan starts, motor starts and the motor is going round as I...

Hello. Our current external Grant Vortex Combi Oil Boiler has a problem with the initial hot water supply throughout the day. In summary: - It takes about 5 minutes of running the hot tap until we get hot water. - This is the same whether the heating is on or not and regardless of time of...

Hello there, Thanks for reading this - As the title suggests, I have a Trianco TRO 15/19 oil fired boiler, which has currently stopped working. The boiler has come to a complete stop, normally there is a green light to indicate mains supply and then when I switch the programmer to turn on...

Hi I have an Old (1992/3) ALPHA range / boiler - its has two ecoflam minor 1 Boilers - I had fuel oil delivered the other day and the next day it locked out. I reset it and after about 1-2 hours it locked out again. The boiler goes through its cycle and heats the water and every so often when...

The problem is more burner related Worcester heatslave 15 19 oil boiler It is a bentone b9 burner made in 1999 With a danfoss bfp 21 l3 oil pump . The boiler will run fine with heating on but about 1 in every 3 or 4 times it goes to start up it will lock out , I will press the lockout button...

Hi hope someone can help, I have read and got a lot of answers in the past, but couldn't sort this. I've purchased "MOES WiFi Smart Thermostat" from amazon, and need it t replace a simple on/off switch that controls the boiler. Pics below of inside the current switch. Wiring diagram for the new...

We have a Grant Vortex 36Kw combi keroscene burning boiler, which has two expansion vessels fitted to the heating side of the boiler. Recently we added a bit of pressure to one of the expansion vessels. Since then the boiler has stopped producing the by-product water that's produced when you...

Hi, i was wondering if anyone can help me out with this. Recently got called to a breakdown on a Boulter Camray 3 with a Riello G5X burner. The boiler would purge, spark, and for a split second ignite only for the flame to fail. It doesn’t go into lockout, the fan continues to spin and it...

Hello, We had a leak inside the boiler (now fixed) but since then the boiler will not fire up. The boiler fan will start but I do not hear the normal whoosh noise I would expect. I took the red plastic cover from the burner and there is no visible sign of water ingress, so I am not sure what...

Hi, We've relatively recently bought a house with a DDC420 controller and are struggling to understand some of it's behaviour and wondered if anyone could help. The main problem at the moment is that the boilers seem to fire even when there shouldn't be any demand on them. An example from...

We have no hot water and it sounds as if the boiler is failing to ignite (when the timer turns the boiler on for hot water we just get a repetitive pinging/banging noise and only lukewarm water, while the heating system is fine). We did not have this problem until 2 days ago. Before that...

Hi, Does anyone know if the Eurostar 90 requires a flue specifically for that boiler, or if a generic flue of the same dimensions would suffice? Proving to be tricky to source a flue for this old boiler. So far have found this one... https://www.bhl.co.uk/trianco-1000mm-horizontal-flue.html#...

Hi guys, I’m having an issue with an HRM Wallstar oil boiler. I have completely replaced the burner for brand new but it is still going into lockout. The pressure is building up and it fires up then gradually the pressure drops off and goes into lockout, if I manually bleed off some oil before...

Hello I'm a new poster here, Boiler- Enviromax Combi C35 with Riello RDB Burner The central heating has been consistently loosing pressure over time and I have sorted many leaks since moving in the house but have discovered one small leak on a radiator that looses less than 15ml of water over...

Hi there - we have a Grant Vortex wall hung oil boiler. It's been giving us some problems locking out all the time, and we've had a plumber visit and carry out various things, which have got it working for a bit... and then it lock out again. So far, they've changed the photocell, the control...

Hi, I have moved to a house with a oil Combi boiler and a thermostat (Grant) which is on the wall in the kitchen. Can I replace this with my hive receiver do you know? I'm a joiner to trade so very limited ability with things like this although I replaced my old one but it was like for like...

Hi all, slight issue with a grant euroflame 50/90. Burner going to lockout, I've changed the oil pump due to it being seized , boiler then fired up, few hours later lock out light back on, motor working fine, checked all was spinning freely. Boiler making humming noise. Changed capacitor and...

Hi, I have a Potterton Statesman oil boiler using its integrated stat for temp control. The boiler fires up as normal as far as the stat is set below half way (unfortunately not hot enough to heat up the house in cold weather). If the stat is set above half way, the overheat light (red one)...

My water pump has started acting strange, it needs bleeding after every cycle of the burner. You can hear the water stop flowing and when you bled it there is hissing for a few seconds, after every cycle, then you hear the flow again What I've tried so far: bleed system where possible, plumber...

Hi We live in a bungalow that has an old grant oil boiler (No gas, we live in the sticks) and we have converted the stables, which is not attached to the house, into a bar with underfloor heating. We have some options, hope someone can provide some advice A) single big, 70kw?, boiler to serve...