Oil Boiler

Giggsie | 19:08 Mon 14th Oct 2024 | How it Works

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My oil heating boiler is not firing up. If I press the reset button it comes on maybe an hour then will not fire up again. Anyone any ideas as what could be wrong?

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douglas9401

A faulty overheat safety thingy.

Giggsie

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Ok I'm going to phone heating engineer tomorrow. Don't know what safety thingy is Douglas but you could be right.

DDIL

Have you tried bleeding it?

Giggsie

Question Author

No DDIL would not have a clue so leave well alone.

JinnyJoan

DDIL - you bleed radiators

ubasses

Sounds like our boiler when the solenoid went in the pump, although ours did not stay on for as long as an hour.

1581960

My experience of servicing oil fired boilers was about 40 years ago, and yes, they did have bleed valves for removing airlocks. My very strong advice is don't mess with it unless you are definitely sure you know what you are doing. Leave it to the experts Giggsie.

DDIL

You also bleed oil boilers Jinny especially if you run out of oil.

its very simple to do and takes 5 minutes.

Giggsie

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Thanks all for answers will phone tomorrow.