Hi there
I am unfortunate enough to have a home with one of these ba*t**ds installed causing me no end of grief. I wonderd if anyone with experience in this area could advise me on the best course of action:
Background: Acquired the property with the boiler already installed - it was installed in 2002. No warranty left on boiler. hardly ever stayed at the house due to work commitmeents until the last 12 months. Since then and actually requiring the boiler to do its job have had no end of problems.
Symptoms: boiler keeps going to "safety lockout" - it takes varying amounts of time to lockout but of recent it does this every 3 mins. I then have to wait for 5 mins and turn it back on for the same process to repeat.
Steps comlpeted so far: Halstead won't extend warranty / don't wanna know. All they will say to my local engineer are the words "fan" and "pressure switch" both of which have been replaced individually with no impact and at the same time with no impact! My local engineer who does not actually install Halstead combi's says that he has only seen a couple of Halstead Golds with problems and they are usually down to fan or switch as advised by Halstead. He says that he is now not sure what to do other than to rebuild the boiler by scratch and see what is going wrong.
The boiler goes to safety lockout when I am running hot water or heating in isolation or using a comination of both - i.e. in all operating circumstances!
I personally would like to drop kick this boiler onto the roof of the Halstead MD's pimp mobile but I have (potentially - haven't got the bill yet!) expended a fair bit of a cash on a new fan and pressure switch to date.
To cap it all off I froze my b***s off at home over the weekend - nice
All advice most welcome!
I am unfortunate enough to have a home with one of these ba*t**ds installed causing me no end of grief. I wonderd if anyone with experience in this area could advise me on the best course of action:
Background: Acquired the property with the boiler already installed - it was installed in 2002. No warranty left on boiler. hardly ever stayed at the house due to work commitmeents until the last 12 months. Since then and actually requiring the boiler to do its job have had no end of problems.
Symptoms: boiler keeps going to "safety lockout" - it takes varying amounts of time to lockout but of recent it does this every 3 mins. I then have to wait for 5 mins and turn it back on for the same process to repeat.
Steps comlpeted so far: Halstead won't extend warranty / don't wanna know. All they will say to my local engineer are the words "fan" and "pressure switch" both of which have been replaced individually with no impact and at the same time with no impact! My local engineer who does not actually install Halstead combi's says that he has only seen a couple of Halstead Golds with problems and they are usually down to fan or switch as advised by Halstead. He says that he is now not sure what to do other than to rebuild the boiler by scratch and see what is going wrong.
The boiler goes to safety lockout when I am running hot water or heating in isolation or using a comination of both - i.e. in all operating circumstances!
I personally would like to drop kick this boiler onto the roof of the Halstead MD's pimp mobile but I have (potentially - haven't got the bill yet!) expended a fair bit of a cash on a new fan and pressure switch to date.
To cap it all off I froze my b***s off at home over the weekend - nice
All advice most welcome!
