Hi all-what a brill forum! Finally moved from lurking to posting!! I recently bought my first property-3 bed terrace-v exciting. I've been doing a lot of the work on it myself Sarah Beeny style but had to call a heating engineer out last week to look at my boiler-a Wickes 102 combi (Halstead) because it stopped making hot water but heating was working. Buy Spares for the Halstead Wickes Combi 102 Fr Ac10000013 GC Number: 4733318 from Direct Heating Spares. Leading Supplier of Boiler Heating Spares in the UK, Free Manuals available on selected models.
Hi there, I have a 102 aka Halstead Ace High, and i have a little problem with it and it is that i have Central Heating but no Hot Water. The problem started just last Friday. When i open a tap there's nothing happening on the combi boiler, before last friday, there use to be a click when i opened a tap and then the boiler would fire up and i'd have hot water, but now there's no click at all and therefore the boiler doesn't fire up. When the Central Heating is running, it should switch from the Central Heating to the Hot Water, but now it doesn't do that.
I've had plumber come out on Friday and before he came out he said it sounded like a 'Thermistor' had gone. He then came out poked about inside the boiler and he said its definatly the 'Thermistor' and took down the part number from the manual and went on his way.
After he went i sat down and had a look through the manual again, and saw that he was looking at the Central Heating Thermistor instead of the Hot Water one. Which made think twice about calling him back, but he came back Monday with the thermistor and found out he had ordered the the wrong part, and i also pointed out to him that he was looking at the wrong Thermistor, so at which point he asked for the manual which confirmed what i had said.
So then he decided to have a look at the 'Domestic Hot Water Flow Switch', took it off and then opened a tap and then proceeded to press the micro switch down and it then fired up the boiler. So then he said it would be a 'Diaphragm' he noted the part number which i found out afterwards was for a 'Flow Switch Body' and he went on his way. Basically, i don't know much in the way of how the boiler works, and was wondering what could actually be wrong with the boiler since the first incident with the guy looking at the wrong part is putting doubts in my mind if he actually knows what's wrong with it Thanks for help in advance and sorry for the long read.
1 Halstead part n o. 190040WHI 2 Halstead part n o. 190042WHI £53.23 3 Halstead part n o. 300677 £5.88 4 Halstead part n o. 190081F £7.79 4 Halstead part n o. 190057 £3.49 5 Halstead part n o.
450999 £138.39 6 Halstead part n o. 600524 £22.11 7 Halstead part n o. 204522 £0.82 8 Halstead part n o. 450961 9 Halstead part n o. 300562 10 Halstead part n o.
300561 £14.44 11 Halstead part n o. 300563 £9.88 12 Halstead part n o. 250565 13 Halstead part n o.
352623 £4.42 14 Halstead part n o. 204512 15 Halstead part n o. 202502 £0.52 16 Halstead part n o. 190072F 16 Halstead part n o. 190044 £65.04 17 Halstead part n o.
300541 £2.21 18 Halstead part n o. 352595 £2.76 19 Halstead part n o.
352596 £3.62 20 Halstead part n o. 600520 £30.88 21 Halstead part n o. 750838 £2.36 22 Halstead part n o. 300669 £2.07 23 Halstead part n o. 300666 £9.21 24 Halstead part n o. 300668 £9.07 25 Halstead part n o. 300667 £9.07 26 Halstead part n o.
988410 £209.30 27 Halstead part n o. 250568 £2.82 28 Halstead part n o. 300678 £8.14 29 Halstead part n o. 401156 £12.87 30 Halstead part n o. 401146 £13.04 31 Halstead part n o. 401143 £3.96 32 Halstead part n o. 500620 £11.34 32 Halstead part n o.
500621 £11.34 32 Halstead part n o. 500611 £10.19 33 Halstead part n o. 500622 £11.34 33 Halstead part n o. 500612 £10.19 34 Halstead part n o. 190017 £13.27 35 Halstead part n o. 200502 £0.49 36 Halstead part n o. 204503 £0.49 37 Halstead part n o.
700552 37 Halstead part n o. 700560 £92.71 38 Halstead part n o. 190078F £28.52 38 Halstead part n o. 190035 £31.28 39 Halstead part n o. 352593 £15.28 39 Halstead part n o. 352646 £16.77 40 Halstead part n o. 190045 £99.98 40 Halstead part n o.
190065F £48.32 41 Halstead part n o. 352630 £0.43 42 Halstead part n o. 352625 £2.45 43 Halstead part n o. 352592 £13.89 45 Halstead part n o. 352594 £15.45 46 Halstead part n o. 450979 £350.06 47 Halstead part n o. 450918 £5.81 48 Halstead part n o.
450908 £21.09 49 Halstead part n o. 352603 £1.36 50 Halstead part n o. 202506 £0.55 51 Halstead part n o.
988398 £184.76 51 Halstead part n o. 988418 £197.76 52 Halstead part n o. 500617 £55.81 52 Halstead part n o. 500592 £50.96 53 Halstead part n o. 352602 £6.72 56 Halstead part n o.
450981 £49.89 57 Halstead part n o. 450982 £48.69 58 Halstead part n o. 851213 £129.14 58 Halstead part n o. 851214 £119.10 59 Halstead part n o. 500590 £28.21 60 Halstead part n o.
202503 £0.53 61 Halstead part n o. 450997 £134.20 61 Halstead part n o. 450985 £152.91 62 Halstead part n o. 450987 £28.53 63 Halstead part n o.
190069F £9.33 63 Halstead part n o. 550524 £39.41 64 Halstead part n o. 202505 £1.92 65 Halstead part n o. 300717 £3.33 65 Halstead part n o.
300715 £3.35 66 Halstead part n o. 204517 £0.53 67 Halstead part n o. 700536 £6.35 67 Halstead part n o. 701030 68 Halstead part n o. 700561 £34.09 69 Halstead part n o. 450998 £37.52 70 Halstead part n o.
200563 71 Halstead part n o. 988412 £156.51 72 Halstead part n o. 450815 73 Halstead part n o. 352645 £0.49 74 Halstead part n o.
500506 75 Halstead part n o. 300560 £28.04 77 Halstead part n o. 190052F £14.73 79 Halstead part n o. 250604 £1.71 80 Halstead part n o. 251023 £2.53 80 Halstead part n o.
190059 £0.30 82 Halstead part n o. 500598 £1.35 83 Halstead part n o. 500597 £2.25 84 Halstead part n o. 500600 £0.42 85 Halstead part n o.
500605 £9.94 86 Halstead part n o. 500606 £9.94 87 Halstead part n o.
352542 £1.31 88 Halstead part n o. 500595 £2.92 89 Halstead part n o. 500596 £1.36 90 Halstead part n o. 500594 £61.20 91 Halstead part n o. 500554 £149.25 92 Halstead part n o. 500601 £147.76 93 Halstead part n o.
840500 £32.87 94 Halstead part n o. 250547 £1.96 97 Halstead part n o. 352572 £0.68 98 Halstead part n o. 352573 £0.68 99 Halstead part n o.
450980 £5.84 100 Halstead part n o. 250514 £0.49 102 Halstead part n o. 204511 £0.91 104 Halstead part n o. 352571 £0.68 105 Halstead part n o. 200562 £0.44 106 Halstead part n o. 250529 £0.83 107 Halstead part n o. 500593 £37.18 108 Halstead part n o.
203009 £0.49 109 Halstead part n o. 204520 110 Halstead part n o. 130605 111 Halstead part n o. 352016 £7.44 112 Halstead part n o. 352552 £7.52 113 Halstead part n o. 352559 £1.58 114 Halstead part n o. 130596 £68.97 116 Halstead part n o.
401147 £9.39 117 Halstead part n o. 401148 £6.38 118 Halstead part n o. 401145 £1.80 122 Halstead part n o.
840501 £25.11 123 Halstead part n o. 840503 £56.73 124 Halstead part n o. 840505 £38.43 125 Halstead part n o. 352605 £1.30 126 Halstead part n o. 352606 £1.30 127 Halstead part n o. 840504 £46.29 128 Halstead part n o.
190055 128 Halstead part n o. 190084F £2.99 129 Halstead part n o. 190083F £2.99 129 Halstead part n o.
190056 130 Halstead part n o. 190073F 130 Halstead part n o. 190047 £24.11 131 Halstead part n o.
190048 £24.40 131 Halstead part n o. 190074F £18.25 132 Halstead part n o. 190067F £34.79 132 Halstead part n o. 190050 £44.13 133 Halstead part n o. 190051 £15.40 133 Halstead part n o.
190075F £12.84 134 Halstead part n o. 190077PF £3.89 135 Halstead part n o. 190076PF £1.47 137 Halstead part n o.
190058F £8.82 138 Halstead part n o. 352022 £2.92.