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Help - Problems With Our Pilot Light Staying Alight
Ms_Chocaholic
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Hi
We have a Baxi boiler (not combi), the pilot light does light and stay alight for a short period of time, enough to get some pipes hot in the airing cupboard but then goes out.
To give some background, we are decorating so my OH took a radiator off the wall and the fitting that the radiator fixes to started to leak (between the fitting and the downward pipe not the fitting and the radiator), he drained the system to fix it but since re-filling we've had this problem.
Hope someone can help.
Cheers
Ms C x
We have a Baxi boiler (not combi), the pilot light does light and stay alight for a short period of time, enough to get some pipes hot in the airing cupboard but then goes out.
To give some background, we are decorating so my OH took a radiator off the wall and the fitting that the radiator fixes to started to leak (between the fitting and the downward pipe not the fitting and the radiator), he drained the system to fix it but since re-filling we've had this problem.
Hope someone can help.
Cheers
Ms C x
Thrifty Till 50 Then Spend Till the End
You can please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time but you can never please all of the people all of the time
You can please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time but you can never please all of the people all of the time
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the thermistor may needs cleaning/adjusting.
a new one is very cheap too.Get some gorm.0 -
Hi
Does the system sound noisy?
I would suspect there is an air lock, the boiler heats up to overheat then the pilot drops out.
Try every venting point ,including the pump.
GSR.Ask to see CIPHE (Chartered Institute of Plumbing & Heating Engineering)0 -
Thank you for your advice, we (well OH) got the pilot light lit again and didn't switch the heating or hot water on but left it for a while. Although OH had vented all the radiators etc earlier, he did it all again and after lots of gurgling we are now warming up.
Thank you.Thrifty Till 50 Then Spend Till the End
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