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Boiler help!

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JingleBellsJuliet · 24/02/2015 08:08

Moved into this house a month ago and one thing after another has broken! Currently have no washing machine, a working toilet but no bath or shower (plumber finishing off today!), a cooker which trips out all the electrics (need a new fuse board apparently). Now my heating has stopped bloody working! So we're freezing, dirty and fed up!

Plumber was here yesterday doing the bathroom. He switched off the water, obviously, and since then, heating keeps tripping off. It's not combination boiler; it's one with a boiler thing in the kitchen and s water tank in an airing cupboard which has it's own switches. It's this that keeps flicking off. There's a little white box with a button and a green light - if I press the button, green light comes on and heating starts working, but a few minutes later, light has gone off and nothing's working again :(

I'll get the plumber to have a look today, but any ideas what could be causing it? Seems a bit of a coincidence that it's only started since the water has been off for him to fit the toilet, but he reckons that shouldn't have done anything.

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wowfudge · 24/02/2015 08:24

Not sure about your boiler, sorry, but the issue with the cooker could just be a fault with that, such as an element wearing out, rather than your fuse box. Yes old fashioned fuse boxes don't meet current regs but they are perfectly safe.

Is the water on and is there water in the tank? If not then that could be why it's switching itself off.

JingleBellsJuliet · 24/02/2015 08:30

It's definitely the fuse board; I've had 2 electricians look at it.

There's water in the tank but have just noticed that the water pressure seems really poor compared to how it was, so I feel the plumber hasn't switched something back on fully.

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Pinkje · 24/02/2015 13:47

is it sorted now? we had similar when the plumber put our washing machine in and connected it to the wrong pipes - how is that even possible! (he blamed the builder)

The pressure drop we experienced was the hot water going off which was reset the next morning.

JingleBellsJuliet · 24/02/2015 16:36

Haha just found out my washer isn't broken; it's been connected to the bloody hot water supply (by my friend, an electrician/general handyman! Grrr) so it's working fine now! Boiler seems to be staying on now, so maybe it was just a combination of that and the water being switched off that upset it. Oh, and I have a toilet that flushes, and s bath without a hole in it :) Cannot wait to have a good soak later!

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