oil heating wont work tonight?

dillodaffs

i just got home from work and my house is freezing.i have oil heating and had the timer set for the heat to come on, the timer light is at the timer setting and the little red light is on, but no heat?

i tried turning the switch to off but nothing happens and the little red red light still stays turned on? is there anything i can do to get the heat going? tried turning it to constand on, nothing happens either?


i have loads of oil, only got a fill last week, it just wont turn on? i'll freeze tonight...not good

Happyman42

Take it off the timer and on normal power and press in the red light and let go again. It should fire up and then the burner will kick in...try it a few times, if the burner doen't kick in,it needs to be bled. Anybody handy should be able to do it.

meercat

where is the red light
if its on the burner ,press it in and see does this reset
any pics??
is there a setting on the timer to turn boiler on manually
are your room thermostats turned up

soldsold

Your pipes from the boiler to the house (if its in the garage) might be frozen, happened to me yesterday. I had dug a trench for new insulated district heating pipes and the uncovered ends of the pipes froze.

A hairdryer on full blast, and a small electric fan heater defrosted them in about an hour, but I covered the lot with insulation boards so the heat stayed in, otherwise would have just heated the air outside.

Where the pipes entered the house I poured boiling water on the bit of the pipe sticking up, did the trick.

If the whole pipe from the garage to the house was frozen I had planned to make a tent with a clothes line and some plastic sheeting, to cover the ground about 1500mm wide over where the pipes were, then get a big industrial blow heater or a gas roofing torch attachment from the tool hire and heat the inside of the tent till the ground below thawed out.

Leaving the heating on timer now to kick in every couple of hours for half an hour, and the path from the garage to the house is covered with insulation now

Rob113

Same problem myself. Boiler firing up. Pump sounds fine. No heat getting to house.

Boiler down back of garden about 10metres from the house. Pipes underground I'd say are frozen solid. Is there anything I can do?

ntpm

dillodaffs wrote: »

i just got home from work and my house is freezing.i have oil heating and had the timer set for the heat to come on, the timer light is at the timer setting and the little red light is on, but no heat?

i tried turning the switch to off but nothing happens and the little red red light still stays turned on? is there anything i can do to get the heat going? tried turning it to constand on, nothing happens either?


i have loads of oil, only got a fill last week, it just wont turn on? i'll freeze tonight...not good

Sounds like your timer is fautly. Electrical problem the red light should be going off when you switch time clock off.
If you are competent enough you can:
1. remove timer and replace it with another clock or
2. replace with a suitable switch (like a light switch),
3. you could bypass the timeclock but the heating will be on perminently and you could utilise the thermostats to regulate heat (depending on your heating control/ wiring)....

If not competent ......then you need to put on a few jumpers tonight!!!:eek:

Rob113

Rob113 wrote: »

Same problem myself. Boiler firing up. Pump sounds fine. No heat getting to house.

Boiler down back of garden about 10metres from the house. Pipes underground I'd say are frozen solid. Is there anything I can do?

Sorry I'm bumping my own post, but has anyone any ideas? House is Baltic. It's absolutely freezing. Pipes in the wall at the downstairs toilet have frozen also. No water in sink or toilet.

I need to get some heat going. All the pipes from the boiler in are underground and come in under the house so I can't get near them with a hairdryer or anything.

If I leave the heating on will it eventually thaw out the pipes and make it's way into the house?

I have the kids coming tomorrow,but I can't take them to the house if it's going to be freezing

Buford T Justice

If the pipes aren't accessible easliy and are underground, then there is very little you can do at all unfortunately, besides go out and buy an electric heater to keep you warm inside.

Leaving the boiler on will do nothing except boil the water in the boiler, and trip out the high limit stat which will need to be reset when all this is over.

This is also an indication that the insulation is poor on the pipes outside, and i would suggest that you look to re-insulating them in the future.






I thought it may have been the timer too, but by the way the OP said red light, I wasn't sure if it was the boiler or the timeclock he was talking about. Some pics would be good

dillodaffs

op here...it was the light on the timer that was on, it looked like the timer was not working. i had a guy come look at it, he pressed the re-set button on the boiler and it kicked off again. he couldnt see anything wrong tho so we dont know why it just didnt work.

least i know how to reset the boiler now

Buford T Justice

Probably a little bit of dirt in the boiler tripped it out. Did you get a fill of oil recently?

jmkennedyie

yep she mentioned she got a fill last week.

Sparkpea

Rob113 wrote: »

Sorry I'm bumping my own post, but has anyone any ideas? House is Baltic. It's absolutely freezing. Pipes in the wall at the downstairs toilet have frozen also. No water in sink or toilet.

I need to get some heat going. All the pipes from the boiler in are underground and come in under the house so I can't get near them with a hairdryer or anything.

If I leave the heating on will it eventually thaw out the pipes and make it's way into the house?

I have the kids coming tomorrow,but I can't take them to the house if it's going to be freezing

if you have an idea of where the pipes go then kettles of hot water over and over the grass/ground *may* help, it would fill a bucket of hot water and use it all at once in the same area then move down a little bit etc. may be a waste of time depending how far down the pipes are but its worth a shot.