fan on central heating making a constant noise

[gra1]

can anyone help I have a ferroli nev 124. The landlord says that it has a new pump and has been reconditioned, but it is always making a noise. I have opened the front up and took of the inside cover at the top is a fan spinning and making the noise if i stop the fan the noise stops. is this fan meant to be running constantly

 

[PEDANTICVINDICTIVEMAN]

Another dipstick fiddling with what he knows nothing about, for goodness sake get a registered fitter to have a look or better still MAKE the landlord get a registered fitter to look at it, this is the sort of thing that ends in DEATH when boiler covers are removed by non proffesionals.

 

[oilman]

Hmm, that's a bit over-dramatic isn't it?

 

[gra1]

whats so dangerous about taking the inside cover of boiler

 

[PEDANTICVINDICTIVEMAN]

Obviously not to the people who decided for ME that I need to pay corgi every year or the people that decided for ME that I need to do ACS every five bloody years or the HSE who decided for EVERYONE that you HAVE to be competent to work in these areas, but when people kill themselves their family and neighbours some clever dick will come along AFTERWARDS and say "it shouldn't be allowed" well it isn't is it, but because some clever dick works for rolls royce or whatever and fits a thermocouple to an aero engine or watches bloody changing rooms or some other garbage, all of a sudden he thinks he's a bloody heating engineer, dramatic, I dont think so,

 

[weargas]

dramatic, I dont think so

i don't think so either. he/she is in rented accomodation, get in touch with the landlord there is no room for DIY on a gas appliance you do not own.

 

[murraysnudge]

Pedantic said:

Another dipstick fiddling with what he knows nothing about, for goodness sake get a registered fitter to have a look

Someone like you then? As a Corgi registered gas engineer you recently gave this advice:

Now follow carefully as it's very technical, you need what we call in the trade a lump hammer, then stand in front of it and say in a very loud voice, "work work you overly uneccessarily overly complicated peice of rubbish you only have to heat water up it's not complicated" then hit it as hard as you can with the hammer in the middle of the casing, if this fails phone up Glowworm so as you have to spend money on a boiler which is not very old,and try to smile.
Hope this helps

Have a look at THIS thread to remind yourself.
Pretty useful advice eh?

 

[PEDANTICVINDICTIVEMAN]

Yea like I REAllY expected them to do that , I was being "sarcastic" or didn't you realise that, if you/they are that thick and if you/ they thought I was being serious then you/they DEFINATELY shouldn't be INTERFERING with a gas appliance, there is a very good reason why it is against the law for NON competent people to be working on gas appliances, unfortunately there are people allready in the graveyard because SOME dipstick thought they knew better.

 

[vxxbcks]

Yea like I REAllY expected them to do that

For what its worth I thought that was quite good advice!!

Anyway I agree about gas stuff, can't be too careful.

With a fan flue boiler though the fan is only an induction motor and an impellar. I recently gave mine a good clean and a spot of oil in the bearings because it has stopped working, it wasn't that hard. That was squeaking for ages and eventually gave up - thankfully a vacuum sensor stopped the boiler from working without it spinning.

Wouldn't dream of touching valves/burners etc though.

It does annoy me though if ever you call someone out all they want to do is fit new parts when all the fan needs is a drop of oil.

Ready for abuse...

Jim.

 

[gra1]

All i done was take a look, I wouldn't dream of fiddling around.

 

[PEDANTICVINDICTIVEMAN]

If the boiler is of an older design and is a positive pressure casing, incorrect fitting of the front panel can be extremely dangerous as the products of combustion can be fanned into the room, guess whats starts tooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo happppppppeeeeeeeeeennnnnnnnn theeeeeeeeeeennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz (

 

[Slogger]

there are a few more fiddlers doing this i agree PEDANTICVINDICTIVEMAN totally as for the positive pressure units surely they can be err condemmed ( for the good of all ) when they get there annual service ( thats every 5 or 6 years i think)