Itâs an unpleasant, shocking sound, but rest assured that itâs not going to happen: kettling cannot make your boiler explode! The needle on the gauge optimally should be located between 1 - 1.5 bar when the boiler is in an off position and has cooled down to room temperature. This will just prove if there is a possibility of a leak somewhere that you cant see, if it stops you have a leak somewhere if not will go to the next stage. Crazy boiler - off on off on ALL THE TIME! Burnham gas fired boiler starts up, only to shut off after several minutes, flame and circulator. Original Poster. ). Combination boiler or combi boilers come being one of the most common types of ⦠Restarts after about 10 minutes for about 1 minute then shuts off again. But before that you need to know about combi boilers and how they work. Boiler firing intermittently - Any Ideas? You can set the on and off times for every day of the week. I set the temp at 76 F on the wall thermastat and 180 degrees for the boiler (heard that was the optium temp for efficency). As is the case with most appliances, tampering with wires can be dangerous. My central heating comprises a Baxi Duo-Tec Combi HE with a Honeywell Evohome Controller (latest Wifi version), wireless relay box (BDR91) and 6 Radiator Controllers (HR92). Friday 8th November 2013. Heating engineers are classed as key workers and are providing quotes as long as no one in your household has Coronavirus symptoms and social distancing guidelines are followed. Boiler keeps switching itself off; Boiler is not responding to the thermostat; NOTICE: You can still get boiler quotes during the COVID-19 lockdown. on on on off on on on off.. pressure seems fine, 1.5 to 1.8 bar is ok With that boiler, the main heat exchanger surrounds the combustion chamber, so can't be easily removed to flush it. All modern boilers come with a timer on them, usually on a separate panel thatâs wired up to the boiler itself. Sep 7, 2007 #1 Over the last few days our central heating boiler has been acting very strangely indeed. Well if you have a combi boiler that keeps firing up randomly, then you need to think about it. We've had the boiler running for three showers and general washing and haven't had a problem with that. None of the pipes leaving the boiler are getting hot when it does this. The thermeter on it says that the water is hitting around 180 degrees. Mend - boiler, keeps, turning, off: Answers will appear here when the question above is answered. Boiler breakdown Baxi boiler keeps firing up and going off every 3 seconds? Check your systemâs pressure gauge and repressurise the boiler if it is set below 1. The boiler thermostat didnt stop the boiler when it was reduced until is was all the way to minimum. (I suppose that is normal!!! Turn off the cold supply into the boiler there is an on/off valve on the cold in at the top of the boiler. Discussion. Hi, I hope that some kind soul out there might help me with a Problem with a Worcester 24cdi combi boiler. While this may not seem like a big issue during these warmer months, it is best to fix a boiler that keeps switching itself off before winter arrives so that you can guarantee it stays working when you really need it. ravenheatcsi85 boiler heating keeps firing up and then turning off but hot water is ok david goodwin April 2009: There is more help available. A wiring issue could also be the cause for your boiler not turning off. If the boiler system pressure is lower than 1 bar your system should be re-pressurized, it can be done by following the steps below: 1.Find connections of the filling valve under the boiler 2. If you have a remote stat' that this needs resetting or if signal being interfered with, turn off internet hub/router for now. There is an eco setting for something, but this isn't on. And when water comes into contact with the super hot heat exchanger, steam bubbles are created, which then erupt noisily. So, you can set it to switch off at, say, 11 p.m. every night and come on at 7 a.m. every weekday (and 8 a.m. at weekends). Other things it might be and will need a Gas safe engineer to ⦠We had a short power cut in our street on Fri ⦠We therefore always recommend you contact a Gas Safe engineer to deal with the problem. Our boiler was doing that when we got an air-lock somewhere in the pipe system so the water was only doing a very short circuit. 30 seconds. Issues with your boilerâs wiring. There are many reasons that a boiler switches itself off, but here are just some of the common causes. I have had a very good friend who is a registered boiler engineer but thought id get some other opinions before shelling out more money. 7 posts. It came back with a status code of S.31 and that is it. There are many causes that can contribute to boiler flame failure. It is 828E Turbomax Plus. The above are things you can check yourself, any of the above would stop your boiler from staying on. off off off on off off off on.. or is the light mainly on, then goes out briefly? I know that the cylinder in the airing cupboard is very warm when the boiler is firing and cools down when I turn the boiler off. Itâs best to have an engineer come and take a ⦠Hi there, First time posting so hope can be of assistance. Should have 1 rad without a auto thermostat valve so boiler can cool itself by firing up and pumping water through radiator. ... the boiler turns off, the water cools down to say 60 and the boiler starts again to repeats the cycle without any useful heat ever having been taken out. Hence it has become a practice of all boiler designers to interlock purging the boiler with boiler start-up. Water temperature on boiler is set too high. 4. 85 months. boiler keeps turning off and on? Repeats process but never gets water to temperature. Boiler keeps shutting off I have a 140 000 BTU Olsen boiler, it ran fine for the first hour last night then started acting up. Hi. My boiler keeps firing up even though the timer for hot water and central heating is switched to Off. Alternatively, contact a Gas Safe registered engineer. As long as it keeps on working properly and we have a constant supply of hot water and heat as required, there is little to be done in the way of maintenance, apart from the annual check. Flicked the power isolation off, held the tester on the pump cables, switched the power back on and the lights lit up on the tester for a split second, then off again. But a while later it turned the boiler off when turned down from 4 -3. It just keeps trying to cycle, sometimes igniting for approx. According to the manual the light blinks green if warmstart is on if hot water is being requested. We had to turn off every radiator and then turn each one on in turn in order to force the air through into the radiators so we could bleed the system successfully. So like the title said, my boiler keeps turning on and off. After turning it on, the boiler start to run under the same pattern: on and off every 30 seconds or so. Could that be where the problem is but I don't understand why a stuck boiler thermostsat would fire a boiler when controller is off. If your boiler is failing to fire up and just going into lock-out, it could be a problem with the PCB (printed circuit board), but you can check this by testing with a vault meter to see if electricity is reaching the PCB whilst still remaining unresponsive. What are combi boilers? Thread starter stevegreen; Start date Sep 7, 2007; stevegreen Well-known Member. I switched the boiler off and then on again and pressed i. In more serious cases, big air bubbles start to pop and create such loud banging noises that it can feel like the boiler is going to fall off the wall. I did this with the boiler on and off, same result. Actually, I'm not sure if it actually turns all the way off. So the pump is not being powered up for some reason. Show More. It fires up, stays on for a few mins, goes off for a few mins + then does it again. If the boilerâs thermostat is faulty, it will allow the burners to stay on longer than it should, causing the heat exchanger to overheat. The radiators are heating up fine and there is hot water, so there is heat going through the system. Make sure all the rad valves are open. Reply Prev of 2. I have replaced the timer but it still keeps happening. Radiators cold downstairs and room stat 20C set 21.5C. Maintaining a good flame in a boiler is the key to a good boiler performance. Im sure my thermostat is OK since I tried with 2 different ones. Unstable flame is always a threat for boiler furnace explosion, which can lead to a large outage of boiler and loss. Checked the programmer and both heating and hot water were off, the boiler was still running. ponymath. We have a two level thermostat and that is how ours is designed to work. I have noticed in the last week that, when i put temp up to switch radiators on, or switch the hot water on, the rads or water get hot (mabye 20-30 mins? If your boiler is turning on but keeps going off, the pressure could be low or there could be a blockage that is inhibiting the system. Hello. I have a combi boiler + it keeps firing up when the heating + water are off. is the light mainly off, then flashes briefly? I read that 180 degrees was like the upper limit, so I was thinking maybe the boiler turns off to let the water cool down. Sometimes all the thermostat valves have turned themselves off because of warm weather and are shut off, so boiler can't move enough water to cool itself so keeps trying. Had to turn the power to the boiler off to stop it running. The system is controlled by a "Lifestyle 711" timeswitch (standard two timer on /offs per day program))and I have a single thermastat in the hall. If the heating on the boiler is set to 'ON', then if the thermostat is turned down to 15C, for example, the heating will still come on if the room temperature falls below 15C. Fault 4: Boiler not firing/Going into lock-out. ), then the boiler cuts off and keeps re-starting. I have a problem with a Baxi Bermuda 57/4E back boiler which is about 10 years old. For the vast majority of the time, our boiler is something that we take for granted. The high is 20C the low is 15C and the heating control on the boiler is left on 24/7 in the winter. 2 Next Reply Author. 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