Hi,
We have had one of these boilers (in our loft) for nearly two years now - and it has been fine until recently. It was also serviced about 6 months ago (by the same engineer that installed it).
It began by not coming on (CH) - and we put this down to flat batteries in the Honeywell programmer/thermostat. After replacing the batteries all seemed well - but then the Honeywell prog/therm' packed up completely.
But that wasn't a problem as it was summer and didn't need the CH and the boiler appeared to be ok just working as a combi.
However, very recently it has stopped working altogether - and a reset etc would not cause it to fire up.
So... we had a new programmer/thermostat and that cured the problem - for a few weeks.
So... (again) we called out our friendly engineer - who fixed it by "bending a strip of metal" - and only charged us £30 - which was reasonable we thought (call out/petrol/time etc).
However, it is still playing up, and more often than not a reset (by switching it off at the main fuse - rather than on the front panel) will cure it. But at other times this also doesn't work.
Does anybody know what the problem might be?
I've heard that there was a "recall" for Potterton boilers - is this the model affected?
Thank you,
Mike
We have had one of these boilers (in our loft) for nearly two years now - and it has been fine until recently. It was also serviced about 6 months ago (by the same engineer that installed it).
It began by not coming on (CH) - and we put this down to flat batteries in the Honeywell programmer/thermostat. After replacing the batteries all seemed well - but then the Honeywell prog/therm' packed up completely.
But that wasn't a problem as it was summer and didn't need the CH and the boiler appeared to be ok just working as a combi.
However, very recently it has stopped working altogether - and a reset etc would not cause it to fire up.
So... we had a new programmer/thermostat and that cured the problem - for a few weeks.
So... (again) we called out our friendly engineer - who fixed it by "bending a strip of metal" - and only charged us £30 - which was reasonable we thought (call out/petrol/time etc).
However, it is still playing up, and more often than not a reset (by switching it off at the main fuse - rather than on the front panel) will cure it. But at other times this also doesn't work.
Does anybody know what the problem might be?
I've heard that there was a "recall" for Potterton boilers - is this the model affected?
Thank you,
Mike
