OT: Central Heating failure

 We woke up this morning and found the central heating had packed up during the
night.
 Phoned the company that maintains it. A technician turned up two hours later
and fixed the problem.
Whether the fix is permanent we will find out the hard way.
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Martin

 

Another frozen condensate pipe?

Mike

 

No, our condensate pipe goes straight down to the sewer under the house.
In this case there was air in the system. I wasn't convinced that by the excuse
that it was because we hadn't topped up the water every year. We pay a company
to maintain the boiler once a year, so it is them who should have been topping
it up. The boiler was installed in 1994. Bizarrely a central heating pipe passes
under the ground floor. We can't access the pipes without ripping up the parquet
floor.
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Martin

 

When we had a new boiler installed it had to go at the opposite end of the
kitchen as modern condensing boilers "now law" are not allowed to vent up
the flue of the old boiler. We therefore have the main feed and return pipes
buried in the concrete kitchen floor. The dogs like to lie over them in
winter as its like underfloor heating!

Mike

 

The old boiler was in the cupboard under the stairs, the  "new" modern
condensing boiler had to go in the attic, for some reason driven by to maximum
flue length.


The wind blows under our floor. In winter there can be water there too.
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Martin