"David Hearn" wrote in message
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Our boiler pilot light went out today. Not sure when - the heating was
working this morning, but wasn't by about 2pm when my wife got home and
turned it back on.

I had some trouble getting it to stay lit - I kept the gas button pressed
in
for 30 seconds as per the instructions, but it didn't stay lit when I
stopped pressing it. In the end I turned the boiler thermostat to
something
other than 'Off' (which the instructions said it should be on). When I
released the gas button, the main burner fired up and it stayed lit. When
the main burner turned off later, pilot was still lit.

Now - any idea what may have caused this? Problem with the boiler I would
assume - the chance of the gas running out is low. Its an old Baxi wall
mounted boiler.

When I'd got the boiler working again, I saw that the burner would pulse
orange. It would be blue, then you'd hear a bit of a 'woosh' and it went
bright orange (whole burner) and then went blue again. It kept doing this
on a 5 second or so cycle. After its been on for a couple of hours, its
burning continuous blue again. Oh, and when it went 'woosh' you could see
a
little puff of something come out the whole where the top thermocouple
comes
out - which worried me.

Therefore I've booked the boiler in for a service on the 3rd Nov - its the
first time we'll have had it serviced since we moved here in May. Looks
like its not been serviced in a while (though the pilot thermocouple looks
quite clean and shiny!). We've had a little CO check thing next to the
boiler, and it hasn't gone dark. Since noticing the puff of something, I
moved the CO check thing to just above the thermocouple hole and I think
its
gone a little darker than it may have - but its certainly not "grey or
black" as the thing says to check for.

So - any initial thoughts about the cause of the pilot light going out?
Any
problems you think I've got with my boiler? I certainly don't want to
have
to replace it!

I was already planning on getting it serviced - just made sure I did it
now!


Thanks

D



Wind up your flue. If it is an old style boiler, then get the flue checked
out to see if it isn't being effected by the wind.


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