Biasi boiler driving me insane. Help.

MerseyLad

Hi,

My girlfriend and I have just moved to a new address and its fitted with a Biasi Riva Compact HE combi boiler.

To say I'm getting frustrated with the thing is a complete understatement.

We are both shift workers and therefore a regular heating pattern cannot be applied for us. Therefore, I need to be able set the boiler for early morning and night time but then turn it in manually for shifts when we may be off and at home through the day.

I thought I had initially done this after fumbling through the quite difficult to follow instruction manual.

However, now I can't see to get the boiler to manually turn on at all. I change it to "timer" and leave it at "-h" and press the standby button but nothing happens (when previously it did)

I've now set up the timed settings to come on in the early AM and in the late evening. In fact, it should be on right now...but it's not!!!

I suspect it's because the timed setting have different days numbered in the top right corner of the display. But I can't find anywhere in the manual how to change the day??? So I have set them for day 2 but the current clock shows as day 4. Which I presume is why it's not on right now???

Can anyone pleeeeease help before we freeze to death? :-)

unclebulgaria

Put it in timer and press the enter button it should show off or on. That constant. You'll have to follow the instruction manual for everything else or we'd be here for ages.
P.s. Biasi = poo

southcoastrgi

UB isn't that a fat little bear that keeps eating honey ?

Klug

We too have a Biasi. Really not impressed with it. 3 yrs old and every year we have to have bits replaced or the temperature sensor fails and needs replacing. I too work shifts and have given up trying to programme it. The system is on 'constant' and just reacts to the thermostat. This means of course that we keep having to tweak the thermostat depending on what we are doing, eg, lower at night and when we go out, but its the only way I can get it to work. We tried programming it to timed with the theory that when we needed it, we could override it (as our previous boiler) but apparently it doesn't like that......

MerseyLad

unclebulgaria wrote: »

Put it in timer and press the enter button it should show off or on. That constant. You'll have to follow the instruction manual for everything else or we'd be here for ages.
P.s. Biasi = poo

I've tried that (as that's what I was doing originally) but now it won't come on.

It says "on" and "-h" on the display when in timer mode but the boiler doesn't fire up.

Biasi is poo but unfortunately as a tennant I don't have much say in that and it is a brand new fitted system.

unclebulgaria

I'm not patronising but have you got the selector on central heating?
Sorry that you find yourself with this boiler but they are really dire, if it was yours I'd say threaten it with a hammer but LL's seem to think it a money saver buying rubbish but in the end it usually costs.
Have you not told the LL to sort it?

MerseyLad

No. I've not spoken to LL yet. Will do tomorrow.

I've managed to get it to work on the timed settings now after doing a system reset. Still can't get it to turn on manually though.

Stupid thing.

Mr_Ted

southcoastrgi wrote: »

UB isn't that a fat little bear that keeps eating honey ?

Or is it summat that picks up poo on Wimbledon Common :rotfl:

MerseyLad

Thought I'd managed to suss a "work around" for this today by just changing the timed settings between every set of shifts (so every 4 days) which is a pain but better than freezing.

Set it to come on at 3 points through the day and from 7pm until 10pm at night. All 3 in the day worked fine, but at 7pm ....low and behold it never came on!!!

I've just gone upstairs and it says its in "timer" mode still and shows "on" but it quite clearly ISN'T on!!!

Tried to amend the time to 2 minutes ahead of the current time to see if it switched itself on. When the time arrived, it went from "off" to "on" but never fired up!!!!

Total joke this sh*t!!!!

Can't turn it on manually either, so it's a 4th consecutive night without heating.

MerseyLad

unclebulgaria wrote: »

I'm not patronising but have you got the selector on central heating?

Where is that selector?

This has modes.

Timer
Manual
Delay

Mr_Ted

MMmmm, just thought, are you setting on and OFF points for your times required for the heating to be on?
It could simply be that you are setting just times for the heating to come ON, which would mean that every other setting you put in the controls would take as an OFF point?
I.E. 7am ON>>>9am OFF etc, as each ON time requires an OFF time also, thereby you need an equall number of settings in a 24 hr period?