Vaillant boiler being a pain in the a**

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Hi guys,

So yesterday morning I woke up to a f75 error code on my 2006 vaillant boiler ecotec pro 28. After some research I decided to replace the water pressure sensor as the cheapest place to start. So in doing so, I isolated and drained the boiler, fitting new sensors, repressurised the expansion vessel to 1 bar and filled the system to 1.3bar and put the boiler into P0 purge mode. F75 code gone but still no hot water or heating.

Right now to give some background, last year I replaced the diverter valve on this boiler due to a leak and went through a similar process of above. What I weirdly noticed was after the 20 mins of purge mode the boiler did this weird loop thing for a couple of hours of just running on and off with the green light on the boiler flashing until finally it settled, and started working as normal and gave me my heating and hot water.

A few months later as discussed in my other thread regarding 1 radiator not working. I drained the entire system and refilled and again purged the boiler which takes about 20 mins and then again the boiler went into some weird loop of turning on and off with the green light flashing for an hour and a half or so until it settled and started working as normal giving me my hot water and heating.

However now to the present day, after replacing the water pressure sensor and purging the boiler, it’s been in this infinite weird loop of turning on and off with green light flashing and it hasn’t gone back to normal. Yesterday I left in on for 6 hours in this way hoping it would settle, it did not, switched the boiler off and purged again thinking still air in the boiler, same thing after the 20 mins just in and infinite flashing loop. Today same thing. Checked the expansion vessel pressure, boiler pressure, bled the system but still no luck, still in infinite loop and no hot water or heating. I have taken a video of what’s happening so have a look at this link:


Cheers guys
 
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Is that when you turn the water temperature knob all the way anti clockwise and then back to desire temp so the green light goes off. Tried this? Still doing the same thing
 
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Still doing the same thing
I know exactly what that fault is but as it’s not a diy fix I can’t tell you. If you want the answer and are gas safe registered join the cc part of the forum, if not you need to engage with a gas safe registered engineer familiar with Vaillants or Vaillant fixed price repair.
 
I know exactly what that fault is but as it’s not a diy fix I can’t tell you. If you want the answer and are gas safe registered join the cc part of the forum, if not you need to engage with a gas safe registered engineer familiar with Vaillants or Vaillant fixed price repair.
hi I am not a gas safe engineer, I have already wasted money on 3 call-outs with people giving me different opinions on why it’s not working. I am not willing to spend anymore money. I have a family who I’ve had to move into their grandmothers because it’s just too cold to stay here and I’ve been living in one room with an oiled filled radiator on full blast. I’m done relying on these so called professional people, I will do it myself. I appreciate you are keeping trade secrets to yourself in order to keep the business alive but atleast point me in the right direction so if it is non diy task I can get an engineer to come in and tell him needs to be done. I’m not leaving it to guessing anymore. Please help! Even if I need to replace the PCB just say!
 
hi I am not a gas safe engineer, I have already wasted money on 3 call-outs with people giving me different opinions on why it’s not working. I am not willing to spend anymore money. I have a family who I’ve had to move into their grandmothers because it’s just too cold to stay here and I’ve been living in one room with an oiled filled radiator on full blast. I’m done relying on these so called professional people, I will do it myself. I appreciate you are keeping trade secrets to yourself in order to keep the business alive but atleast point me in the right direction so if it is non diy task I can get an engineer to come in and tell him needs to be done. I’m not leaving it to guessing anymore. Please help! Even if I need to replace the PCB just say!
Trade secrets has nothing to do with it unfortunately. It’s against forum rules to give out gas advice in on open forum and also against gas safe register rules. I’m sorry you’ve been let down by 3 “professionals”.
 

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