18-01-2013, 04:13 PM
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The Vaillant is Valiant!
As you may have read in the good morning thread my boiler packed up some time in the wee small hours (when I went to bed it worked and when I awoke it didn't).It didn't surprise me much as it was made in 1990 which far outlives the expectations of a Combination Boiler. Still, I was a bit upset about it nonetheless.
So the boiler mannie came round at 1PM this afternoon and got his tools out to strip the ol' girl (oh please).
After some investigation he told me it looks like the circulation pump isn't working either due to the bearing having seized up or just worn out plain and simple.
Luckily he has a lot of parts for old boilers so out came the old pump and in went a new one.
After checking the rest of the system over he put it all back together and tested the water and heaters. The boiler fired into life and heated up both - hallelujah!
He asked me if I wanted him to give it a service while he was there (it was due one in a month anyway) so I gave him the go ahead and upon doing that he discovered the fan was starting to go out (I had been suspecting that for a while with the sounds it had been making) so that got replaced too.
After that he just did a simple system flush and put some fluid in to protect against corrosion etc...
And the best bit? The bill was only £430 for replacing the pump, fan, doing a system flush & adding Sentinel inhibitor (the best apparently) and doing a full service with a sticker saying she's good to go until January 18th 2014.
He got his bacon butty and a few cups of tea thrown in for his good work.
I've now got the heaters in all rooms up to full blast (almost burnt my hand they are so hot now) and the hot tap goes to boiling temperatures after only seconds of running.
It may have cost a bomb over cheaper boilers when I bought it, but that Vaillant has paid off 110% even with today's repair.
18-01-2013, 05:27 PM
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Are you lucky enough to have gas? We're not on the gas main, so it's oil for us. We have a Grant 'Vortex' outside boiler. It's pretty good, but because it sits outside, it needs frost protection. Sometimes on very cold nights, it comes on in the small hours and you wake to find the bedroom very warm.
18-01-2013, 06:31 PM
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I can only estimate it is down to a fault hezal?A few years after we had our house built the water cut off one morning out of the blue. the neighbours water was fine so we got it checked out and turned out the pipe feeding our house was clogged up.
I did suggest to the wife I hooked a keg of beer up to the cold tap in the mean time - she refused.
18-01-2013, 06:59 PM
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Originally Posted by oldbugger
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I can only estimate it is down to a fault hezal?A few years after we had our house built the water cut off one morning out of the blue. the neighbours water was fine so we got it checked out and turned out the pipe feeding our house was clogged up.
I did suggest to the wife I hooked a keg of beer up to the cold tap in the mean time - she refused.
, hence the wet cat 
who was using my bag which I'd put in the bath out of the way, as a bed) I kid you not this propery is like something out of a comedy farce. It is supposed to all being put right next week, I'll believe it when I see it.
18-01-2013, 07:16 PM
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Originally Posted by hazel
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No OB it's down to a BB (Barmy Bugger) who's boiler broke and it was reported, they said they'd have to order one, so in the meantime to use the water you have to switch it on and off at the mains (includng to flush the loo, then if you don't catch it before it fills the tank up it shoots out of the overflow in the bath, hence the wet cat who was using my bag which I'd put in the bath out of the way, as a bed) I kid you not this propery is like something out of a comedy farce. It is supposed to all being put right next week, I'll believe it when I see it.
Who needs tawlty fowers!?
What? Oh, fawlty towers!!
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