On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 21:45:37 +0000, dazgray wrote:


my heating is playing up but ho****er is working fine but the heating
clicks in and boiler fires up but after a very short time it stops as
if the stat has told it to but the house is cold even with the stat on
full and listening the stat is not clicking out but the boiler stops
radiators are cold???


This is the actuator of the diverter valve.

Check for dripping hot taps, on a marginal fault this can make the
difference, for a short while.

You will need to buy the whole diverter valve about £80 but you only need
to replace the actuator at the front of the unit.

--
Ed Sirett - Property maintainer and registered gas fitter.
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