Baxi 80E - Central Heating issue

[stevetolley]

Hi all, I have an ongoing and quite frustrating problem with my Baxi 80E boiler. The DHW is working fine, but there is a fault on the CH side.

We have a timer and 'stat as per normal and these are both fine. The boiler fires if the temp is below the set on the 'stat and within the timer on window. It fires first time and heats up no problems. Rad's get hot and its ok. However as the boiler temperature drops and the boiler fires again to heat it the boiler will randomly cut out and stop firing. It will keep clicking the boiler to fire, which it will for about 10 seconds and then cut out again.

No warning lights on the front panel, but I changed the CH temp sensor anyways as I thought that may fix it and was only £15. I have spoken to Baxi and they want £300 for a call out and fix. My local 'specialist' was only interested in pulling it off the wall and fitting a new one !

Please help, going nuts now and cant find anyone 'helpful' without getting robbed blind ! Sorry for the long first post too !

 

[Agile]

It may well be a faulty PCB which would make the £300 rather more attractive. But it could also be something much less expensive.

I wonder how many of the gas-safe registered engineers within say 10 miles you have contacted?

If you only contact those with display adverts then most only really want to have the bigger jobs of fitting a new boiler! That's even if they even had any diagnostic skills.

If it was a lesser problem I could almost come to you economically myself depending on where you are.

If you gave your postcode then its quite possible we could recommend someone.

Tony

 

[stevetolley]

Hi tony, I am in the so51 region so hampshire. I had a further person out yesterday so thats three 'registered' specialists and its still playing up, just 80 pounds lighter !

I am fairly sure its an electrical/pcb fault but not enough to simply buy one .....

 

[DP]

If the fault is present when the engineer looks at the boiler, then he should be able to locate and fix. Might be an idea to call back the person who charged you 80 squid to have another go as he has not effected a repair, only guessed what might be wrong and got that wrong

 

[stevetolley]

Hi DP, unfortunately it was the wife in yesterday who just accepted 'its fixed' and he left. Said he changed a couple of parts but I would have expected more than £80 with a call out and parts to be honest. Not sure he's done anything if I'm being totally honest !

Are the PCB's on these notorious for playing up ??

 

[Agile]

He should have put the parts replaced on the invoice.

Call him back.

You should have had Kevin to fix your boiler. Search for him here as he occasionally posts here.

Make sure you have your number in your profile.

I seem to have lost his number from my phone unfortunately.

Tony