Woke up to find my boiler struggling this morning
The boiler is a Biasi Riva Advance 24HE combi-boiler and we've had it installed for just over a year.
When I woke up and tried to put on the hot water, it only warmed ever so slightly before going icy cold. I tried putting on the central heating. Unusually, when the heating seemed to be firing up, there was a louder than usual noise coming from the gas meter in the other room. This lasted for around 30 seconds and coincided with the sound of the boiler warming and the temperature gauge slowly increasing. However, every 30-60 seconds, this stops, the noise from the gas meter stops and the temperature gauge falls...this process is then repeated maybe 7-8 times (as if the boiler has fired up, but is struggling to get much further) for approximitely 10 minutes.
At this point, the indicator lights come on and the red boiler lock-out light goes on. The 3 indicator light show two flashing green lights on either side of a solid red light which, according to the instruction manual, means 'lack of burner ignition' - though the boiler does seem to be igniting, just not staying on
When the boiler lock-out light comes on, I press the boiler reset button and this process happens again, coming to the same conclusion.
The odd thing is that if I keep resetting the boiler, and leaving the central heating on, repeating the aforementioned process, my central heating does reach a level where my radiators are quite hot and the temperature guage on the boiler rises to a good temperature. At this point, when I try the hot water tap, the water heats to a very good temperature but then starts to cool within maybe a minute, eventually getting very cold.
Would anyone have any ideas? It's currently not too bad because I can keep the flat warm, it's more the problem of not having a constant stream of hot water.
Any help would be greatly appreciated and please let me know if you'd need any more details?
Dave
Edit - I have also noticed that if I have my gas cooker on, when I put the central heating on and I hear the gas meter get noisy, the flame goes right down and eventually dies. If the flame is still lit, it returns to a normal flame once the noise from the gas meter stops.
I'm a novice but even I can see this seems to be a gas issue! Am going to get on the phone to gas company tomorrow - the gas meter itself does seem pretty old and even from when we moved in about 2 and a half years ago, it did make noises from time to time, something I'm reliably told by my dad shouldn't have been happening!
The boiler is a Biasi Riva Advance 24HE combi-boiler and we've had it installed for just over a year.
When I woke up and tried to put on the hot water, it only warmed ever so slightly before going icy cold. I tried putting on the central heating. Unusually, when the heating seemed to be firing up, there was a louder than usual noise coming from the gas meter in the other room. This lasted for around 30 seconds and coincided with the sound of the boiler warming and the temperature gauge slowly increasing. However, every 30-60 seconds, this stops, the noise from the gas meter stops and the temperature gauge falls...this process is then repeated maybe 7-8 times (as if the boiler has fired up, but is struggling to get much further) for approximitely 10 minutes.
At this point, the indicator lights come on and the red boiler lock-out light goes on. The 3 indicator light show two flashing green lights on either side of a solid red light which, according to the instruction manual, means 'lack of burner ignition' - though the boiler does seem to be igniting, just not staying on
When the boiler lock-out light comes on, I press the boiler reset button and this process happens again, coming to the same conclusion.
The odd thing is that if I keep resetting the boiler, and leaving the central heating on, repeating the aforementioned process, my central heating does reach a level where my radiators are quite hot and the temperature guage on the boiler rises to a good temperature. At this point, when I try the hot water tap, the water heats to a very good temperature but then starts to cool within maybe a minute, eventually getting very cold.
Would anyone have any ideas? It's currently not too bad because I can keep the flat warm, it's more the problem of not having a constant stream of hot water.
Any help would be greatly appreciated and please let me know if you'd need any more details?
Dave
Edit - I have also noticed that if I have my gas cooker on, when I put the central heating on and I hear the gas meter get noisy, the flame goes right down and eventually dies. If the flame is still lit, it returns to a normal flame once the noise from the gas meter stops.
I'm a novice but even I can see this seems to be a gas issue! Am going to get on the phone to gas company tomorrow - the gas meter itself does seem pretty old and even from when we moved in about 2 and a half years ago, it did make noises from time to time, something I'm reliably told by my dad shouldn't have been happening!
