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boiler comes on even when heating is on timed

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mrspurp751 · 24/09/2015 17:12

getting to be a pain, we had a new boiler fitted a few years ago, it's a vaillant with a wireless thermostat control, when put the heating on timed it doesn't seem to care, when it's off for the night it comes on whenever it likes, it's even come on during the summer, the wireless thermostat has read 29 degrees before now and it's still firing up and heating the entire house, we keep the wireless control in the warmest room as plumber said would help!

even if switch the heating off, as I did through the summer it'd still come on at ridiculous times!

the only way have found to stop it is by turning the heating on the boiler itself down to pretty much zero, setting times on the controller does nothing to stop it, I want it to come on when I want it, not have it firing up at 3am because it decides it wants too, there's no logic to it, it'll fire up in the day as well, have come into the house before now thinking walked into a tropical rainforest it's that hot!! I don't want it blaring and heating when don't want it, I also don't want to have to manually go turn off all the radiators because it decides that 29 degrees just isn't warm enough!!

help, am dreading having to turn it up again as colder weather looms, apart from anything else when it decides it'll just turn on when it wants it uses a ridiculous amount of gas, the 'base' temperature that it's set to come on at if falls below is 10 degrees, it's never been that low on the thermostat for that to cause it to kick in, even in winter?!!

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99percentchocolate · 24/09/2015 17:13

Do you gave the hot water set to on?

overthemill · 24/09/2015 17:17

I think you need to call an engineer. We have the boiler from hell and need to do this frequently. He came this week and sorted out bloody boiler and did a broken thermostatic valve for £114 which I thought was a bargain as last winter we had to fiddle with the boiler every week. Get a recommendation locally

mapmyface · 24/09/2015 17:18

Is it the wireless thermostat that came with the boiler?
If so it will probably need replacing, ours did the same thing and we resorted to turning the boiler off and on manually when we wanted the heating on. I lasted a year before buying a new thermostat

PigletJohn · 24/09/2015 22:31

is it a combi, with a keep-hot function? If you can change it to eco mode it will run less.

I am not fond of wireless room stats, they have more to go wrong.

evrybuddy · 25/09/2015 13:54

Have had this problem in reverse - couldn't get boiler to come on - Worcester with wireless thermoststat.

The cause of the problem for us was a radio- controlled clock which someone gave as a present - ha! - locked in a box now eith no batteries!

It was one of those that sets itself by checking for a signal every hour or every day or something with Big Ben or Greenwich Obsrvatory - some nonsense like that.

Anyway after causing endless cut-outs on the boiler - we traced the start of the problem to the arrival of the clock and its positioning on a wall between the boiler and the wireless thermostat.

All of the manufacturers will say that the wireless signal can't be affected by other wireless devices - laptops, clock etc etc - but it can and it happened to us.

Always make sure the thermostat batteries are at full-strength too!

PigletJohn · 25/09/2015 23:23

wireless thermostat, you say Sad

SquinkiesRule · 27/09/2015 15:31

We had that happening with our Worcester boiler, I changed the batteries in the wireless controller but it didn't help. I ended up getting the instructions and resetting the whole thing and then reprogramming from scratch. It works now. It was coming on in the middle of the night and getting up to 25, I was waking in a pool of sweat.

roses2 · 27/09/2015 15:47

I had this - turns out it was a fault wireless thermostat. Got the thermostat placed for about £50 I think.

Might not be as expensive as you think to fix :)

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