Hello. I have a Potterton Puma 80 combination boiler which is probably about 10 years old. It has been working well since I had a new PCB card about 2 years ago. However, yesterday evening I got home to a chilly house, and when I tried to put the heating on for a bit, it started fine but then cut out almost immediately (pilot light went out, although the boiler was still making the noise it makes when it is sending heat to the radiators).
We can relight the pilot light without a problem; the mains light is lit (as it is supposed to be) and the low pressure warning light is not lit.
The boiler will still produce hot water quite as usual. The heating has been on occasionally over the past couple of months and has been normal (and was on all winter).
When the central heating is switched on, the row of gas flames fires up properly, but then just goes out, along with the pilot.
When I first moved in to my flat, five years ago, the boiler was not working, and it seems to be very similar now. However, five years ago we discovered that the problem was that the boiler was evacuating into a very confined space, and there wasn't sufficient fresh air in this space for the intake. The boiler must never have worked properly, although it had been in place for a number of years before I arrived. We resolved this problem by venting the boiler out to the side (which is an open space) rather than to the rear.
This makes me think that the problem may be the fan or the vent or something - it may be that the boiler just isn't getting enough air. I have checked the actual outflow visually and it does not seem to be blocked.
Any comments or suggestions?
We can relight the pilot light without a problem; the mains light is lit (as it is supposed to be) and the low pressure warning light is not lit.
The boiler will still produce hot water quite as usual. The heating has been on occasionally over the past couple of months and has been normal (and was on all winter).
When the central heating is switched on, the row of gas flames fires up properly, but then just goes out, along with the pilot.
When I first moved in to my flat, five years ago, the boiler was not working, and it seems to be very similar now. However, five years ago we discovered that the problem was that the boiler was evacuating into a very confined space, and there wasn't sufficient fresh air in this space for the intake. The boiler must never have worked properly, although it had been in place for a number of years before I arrived. We resolved this problem by venting the boiler out to the side (which is an open space) rather than to the rear.
This makes me think that the problem may be the fan or the vent or something - it may be that the boiler just isn't getting enough air. I have checked the actual outflow visually and it does not seem to be blocked.
Any comments or suggestions?
