Boiler drama

[mravant]

Hi,

The plumber installed a TF1 filter onto our existing conventional boiler, We had a big airlock in the system which meant the boiler would turn on for a few seconds and then turn off.

He eventually managed to remove the airlock but now the boiler kicks in when the hot water switch is turned on but when you switch the central heating switch on nothing happens

He is telling me that it is because there is more air in the system but i am not too sure about this.
Even when the boiler was off before and we switch the central heating on the pump would circulate but it is not even doing that now.

Any insight would be appreciated.

 

[bengasman]

Bit more info about the installation would not go amiss.

 

[mravant]

Sorry for being vague....I am not too technical.
What info would help?

 

[bengasman]

Make and model of all components plus reasons for calling the bloke out in the first place, and what he did apart from cutting the pipe and sticking the filter in.

 

[mravant]

Sure.

Ideal Ikos HE15 Conventional boiler
Potterton TF1 Filter
Grundfos pump (blue British Gas one)

I have had quite a lot of building work done and whilst they were here i just wanted a filter added to my existing system as they adding a couple of new rads also.

After adding the new rads the system was all up and running although there was also an airlock then but that was sorted.
This time they only partially drained the system to install the pump.

 

[bengasman]

This time they only partially drained the system to install the pump.

???

 

[mravant]

Sorry meant to say install filter

 

[bengasman]

Still a bit of a challenge to comment on this one as several items make no sense and the make/model of the timer and the thermostat are lacking.

The pump coming on with the boiler switched off, before but not any more is weird, although it was wrong that it did that in the first place.

Only installing a filter changing the working of the boiler makes no sense.

Spending £100-£200 to install a filter just for fun is decidedly odd.

And to make it more complicated, sorry to say, but your boiler is a complete piece of junk and would be my number one suspect even if it was ony two days old.