Flickering lights

Nov 28, 2004 1 Replies

Hi,



I noticed that the lights in my house were flickering occasionally just after I had a new combi boiler fitted.



Turns out my neighbour is seeing the same thing. No matter what I do with the boiler - turn up the thermo stat or turn on the hot water, I can't make it cause the flickering.



But, if the flickering is happening, I can make it stop by turning off the boiler!



It doesn't seem to be making any odd noises at the time the flickering occurs. Just working normally - I think it was heating up the radiatiors at the time.



This is quite hard to investigate as I normally have power saving lights on which don't suffer from the same problem. And I can't make it happen at will.



Any tips?



I probably need to ring the boiler fitter but it'd be nice to get it to happen so I can show him and we'd know when it's fixed. Might be the electrics as I've found a few bits of dodgy wiring in this house.



Thanks.



Peter


I'd get that checked out. I once had a flickering ceiling light upstairs - it turned out to be a loose cable in the attic which subsequently started a major fire.

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