Gas boiler parts

Managed to fix my gas boiler last night - the pilot light had shrunk to a tiny, tiny flame due to the hole filling with crud. I cleaned out the hole and today it is working fine.

However - the flame sensor and pilot light assembly was in a bit of a state - rusty, covered in crap. Where can I buy new bits? I don't suppose B&Q stocks this type of thing - they wouldn't want to encourage DIY on gas boilers I'm sure. But I'm not keen to pay some bozo to come and change these rudimentary parts.

The boiler is pretty old - Gloworm I think. Must be 15-20 years old.

Are there suppliers willing/able to sell to Joe Public?

cheers

Jeremy

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Jeremy Taylor
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My boiler is a similarly aged Gloworm. The flame sensor is, hopefully, replaceable by a universal replacement thermocouple which can be obtained at B&Q for a few pounds (I replaced mine recently) - they fail quite regularly. The pilot light assembly is an entirely different matter. They do get rusty but if yours is actually falling to bits, you may have a problem. The pilot thermocouple is probably in series with the other safety device, the boiler overtemperature cutout. These can fail as well.

The pilot system is generally fail-safe, ie the problem is keeping it going, not stopping it going when it shouldn't be. If the pilot light is staying alight, and the boiler is operating correctly, I would leave well alone. I hope, when you had it to bits, you gave the heat exchanger fins a good clean out. Allowing these to soot up is a Bad Thing. It would be worth buying a universal thermocouple as it's bound to go when the shops are shut!

Reply to
Bob Mannix

In message , Jeremy Taylor writes

Yes, they're called central heating merchants

More information than "Glowworm, I think" might be useful when trying to get parts

Reply to
raden

Yes, well. I obviously wasn't going to turn up at the shop and tell the man 'Gloworm - I think' was I? I was just asking for names of shops that sell this kind of stuff. I didn't think B&Q had this kind of thing - they don't seem list pilot light assemblies on their website. And I couldn't think of any where else - I'm sure Homebase hasn't got this stuff!

Jeremy

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Jeremy Taylor

Google is your friend: 'Glow-Worm pilot spares' (without the quotes) will give you some leads

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Tony Bryer

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Jonathan Pearson

or try:

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use them occasionally for boiler spares. Hugh

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Hugh

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- Powred Heating & Burner Spares, Bristol
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- Powred Heating Components, Cardiff

Both do mail order, most of the info you'll need to give will be on the boiler's databadge, or possibly on the front cover of the boiler.

At 15-20 years old you're approaching the point where parts become obsolete, however both of the above companies (owned by the same people) specialise in getting hard to find parts ;)

(Ok, ok, I do some work for them ;) )

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Alex Threlfall

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