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Heating Help Please!!
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We’ve had no heating or hot water since yesterday and it’s -5 with snow too. Have rang and rang and rang our heating engineer guys but on constant hold. I’ve checked online and a common problem at the moment is the condensate pipe being frozen(??) and everyone’s days to go outside and pour hot water on it. Well that would be fine - but our boiler is in the loft!! I’ve reset it, turned it 9m and off, it’s sparked up a couple of times for about 2;mins and then straight off again. We are frozen solid - any brightnideas guys??
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Is your boiler a condensing boiler? If so it is liable to be the condensing pipe frozen. This will have an outlet pipe that is discharged outside the house whether the boiler is on the ground floor or in the loft. Your boiler being in the loft means that you need to get in the loft and to get a ladder or means of access to the pipe outside.
The pipe they say about is usually white plastic and anything in it empties into a hopper which is usually a lot lower. Can get to ours from a step ladder. The end of this pipe often gets water in it and will turn to ice in this weather. If there is ice there you may be able to get rid of it with warm water and if that is the problem it will fire up from there.
Excuse typos in post - hands are frozen! Ok guys - am going to go outside again. Sooo I’m a mid terrace. Boiler is in what was loft and is now a bedroom. It’s in what is a wardrobe which backs onto next door and I can see that all the copper pipes are running along the wall and into the eaves. So I’m looking outside for a white pipe??.
That sounds like it could be Smow. You are going to need to get rid of the icicle without damaging the pipe, and if you can pour warm water on the part of the pipe that you can access. When you try the boiler again just see whether there is any discharge from that pipe, either steam or water droplets.