Good afternoon Obi Wan's (you may well be my only hope)
I have a Gloworm Spacesaver 50b MkII boiler that has gone on the Fritz, it is looking increasingly like the Gas valve is at fault and is causing the boiler to runaway with itself in water heating. So far this has cost us quite a lot of flooding and 3 months of sleeping on the living room floor.
I have had a plumber to look at the offending article and his advice would be a boiler replacement as the part(s) required are harder to find than a virgin in a maternity ward. That said I did come across this item on a cursory Google search
GAS VALVE
I e-mailed the supplier to ask if it would be a suitable replacement and they asked what my GC number was so they could confirm. Now the hard part, finding the GC number is as difficult as the afformentioned virgin; I see nothing in the manual and nothing on the external parts of the boiler that I am willing to mess with the only thing I have is the reference number AG 121 L/6/82 which is on the top right of the manual. The boiler is quite old so I could well believe that spares are no longer available but given the choice of £150 or £1000 I would rather try and go for the former.
Any help or advice would be most gratefully received and I thank you in advance for your time.
Paul
I have a Gloworm Spacesaver 50b MkII boiler that has gone on the Fritz, it is looking increasingly like the Gas valve is at fault and is causing the boiler to runaway with itself in water heating. So far this has cost us quite a lot of flooding and 3 months of sleeping on the living room floor.
I have had a plumber to look at the offending article and his advice would be a boiler replacement as the part(s) required are harder to find than a virgin in a maternity ward. That said I did come across this item on a cursory Google search
GAS VALVE
I e-mailed the supplier to ask if it would be a suitable replacement and they asked what my GC number was so they could confirm. Now the hard part, finding the GC number is as difficult as the afformentioned virgin; I see nothing in the manual and nothing on the external parts of the boiler that I am willing to mess with the only thing I have is the reference number AG 121 L/6/82 which is on the top right of the manual. The boiler is quite old so I could well believe that spares are no longer available but given the choice of £150 or £1000 I would rather try and go for the former.
Any help or advice would be most gratefully received and I thank you in advance for your time.
Paul
