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Yep, clean as.

He said for £75 he'll remove the baffles and clean it out (I've done that), replace the jet (I can do that but haven't gone there yet) and I think he said change the filter and "generally check it out". As above he said it gets to a point when he'll just at suggest changing the whole burner. Looks to be about £300 for a new burner online. I can do that. I'll make sure the pressure is correct to start with and ask the BiL (diesel fitter). I just want to know what the issue is!

B@ll@cks! ? Boiler stopped. No red lockout lamp on but pressing it (the combined lockout lamp/reset button) and she fired up.

Sorted:

She fires, she runs. All heating up here. Let's see how it goes but the pump looks the issue. Thanks for all the pointers and assistance ?

With the old pump rotating freely I refitted but no dice ? just locking up still. New pump on and she fires and runs. In the absence of a gauge I decided as you suggested @dpmiller, to whip out the baffles and gauge the flame by eye for now (no sight gauge btw). Tbh I was amazed by the amount of crumbly, flaky, "debris" in there on the baffles. I don't remember it that bad when I last cleaned it out and made new baffles (2015?). What is it, something from incomplete combustion, mill scale off the baffle I made? All scraped off and hoovered up now. Little video, flame nearly reaching the back wall...look alright? VID_20210214_101704350.mp4 Just got to remember how the baffles went, as in gap at the front/back. Seem to recall having this issue before! ?

Different section in the regs for swimming pools. You can have socket outlets if certain requirements are met.

BS7671 the "electrical regs" are not statutory i.e not law but "may be used as a defence in law". So complying is best as insurers etc will refer to them should it all go tits up. The building regs however are statutory. The mentalness of it being someone has to then write a guide as to the god practice of implementing them...the guide isn't statutory ?

That from the building reg guides in kitchens.

Been here 20 years and I changed the pump once in that time. Can't remember when. Going to put back together in a mo. Will report back.

No, because that would infringe copyright ? (Check your Inbox in a couple of minutes).

When I first met SWMBO she'd extended her ghetto blaster's 2-core mains lead by "splicing" another into it, twisting the wires together and "insulating" them with Sellotape. She'd balance the stereo on the edge of the bath. With hindsight I should have kept quiet...

701.512.3 "... socket-outlets are prohibited within a distance of 3m horizontally from the boundary of zone 1" That's from the 2018 big blue book. I don't have any amendments.

The electrician was doing his job! ?

Some dry, powdery rust in there, quite a bit in fact. No squealing when it runs. I've had the fan cover off and it turns as smooth as. Ditto if I stick my finger down where the pump engages. The pump mind was as stiff as to turn! I've brushed all the crap out, flushed the burner recess and pump bearing out with penetrating oil, then stood the pump on end and filled the bearing with oil. Pump seems to turn pretty freely now. Hopefully this'll give me a bit of a reprieve. Fingers crossed. Coffee time while that oil soaks in. Why is it there's never a biscuit when I want one?

Lock out last night and it wouldn't reset. Plan this morning is to take the pump off initially and have a look. I've got the new pump but have no way of setting the pressure to the 8 bar required. I've ordered one of these gauges from BES in the link above: The bumpf says it's a bottom entry thread, 1/8" BSP. I'm hoping that applies to the male bit sticking out on the brass adaptor in the picture above. In the Warmflow handbook, the long 80mm ish, hex connector (part No.3008876) is referred to as "Pressure Gauge". In reality it's where the pressure gauge attaches. Photos below taken from random eBay listings for this part. It looks like the grub screw where the pump attaches might be 1/8" BSP. Vernier at the ready for when I take it off. I may need an adapter I guess. Speaking with BiL and he reckons the bearings in RDB burners can dry out but are easy enough to change. Suggested I remove the pump then spin the fan by hand to feel if it runs smooth. On refitting the pump he suggested I lubricate the pump shaft with oil to try and get some in the bearings. If it's dry bearings maybe that'll help and I can refit the old one until I get the gauge. I'm 2 cups of coffee, 2 toast and 2 paracetamol down. Just waiting for the pills to kick in before I start. Then it's off to the garage to get some lubricating oil. I've a 3kW fan heater running in the lounge and a panel heater taking the chill off in the boiler room. ?

Bless them.

Quite serious. I'll put a score in towards his piv fund. Intentionally unkind btw.

As a "quick fix" to get the ST panels up and running I did think of building a timber pergola outside these sliding doors. It'd mean I could get the ST up and running. Also be handy for access when and if I change to a gable.

Where's the fun in that when I can spend years redressing other people's cock ups and considering workarounds before I even start something here? ?

I'll openly admit to knowing jack about PV. The kit, inverters, how it connects etc. In fact I've actively avoided learning about it. Luckily there were no question on it in the 18th ?

Sorry, to do what? I'd like to get rid of the incoming overhead...

Looks really smart btw ?

Is that the iPad in some sort of an IP rated enclosure? Tbh I'd have jammed it behind the bog to take the gap up!

? There's a dodgy overhead SWA from the corner of the house to the garage on a wire catenary at the mo. See lower left. That'll get replaced soonish I hope by a trenched in duct as I need to get the gate intercom and CCTV to the house too. A bit of a convoluted route up the drive, through the garage, down into a trench then into the house. Getting an underground supply would be a pita and cost a few £££££. The pole we're currently off of is on the neighbours land the other side of his block paved drive. He's also got lots of underground cabling. With hindsight I could have perhaps got him to put a duct in for me years ago. Never mind. The other pole is across the road. Maybe get a pole put on my land?