Reply to: What noise does your boiler make?

[SueEllen]

Ah, no, we got an alarm after ms#3 did his gas safe course.

Good.

[mudskipper]

Before you die of CO poisoning........

Ah, no, we got an alarm after ms#3 did his gas safe course.

[SueEllen]

And it's no longer ratcheting. Just one click as it fires up. A self-healing boiler.

Before you die of CO poisoning........

[suityou01]

And it's no longer ratcheting. Just one click as it fires up. A self-healing boiler.

You really should get out more

[mudskipper]

And it's no longer ratcheting. Just one click as it fires up. A self-healing boiler.

[RSoles]

Apart from all the clunking and banging when I load logs into it, mine's quite quiet.
Gentle hissing and ticking.

My favourite noise comes when I fiddle with the air control just after lighting it and the unburnt gases in the flue ignite with a short 'ptoomff'.

[mudskipper]

have you had a sight test recently? No noise

Says Stevie Wonder...

[Zippy]

There's a crackling noise - a bit like the sound of burning tenners.

[Zero Liability]

A silent hum.

[SimonMac]

[suityou01]

Cheers - think it was set to 2 (on a scale of 1-3). Heating's off at the mo.

Settings? Posh pump!

OK whack it up to 3, see if it clears the noise. If not whack it back to 2. Simples

[mudskipper]

There is an outside chance that when the pump was changed the speed was set too low. This would cause the water to not "get away" from the boiler quick enough, causing a thermal cut out. This can sometimes cause the ratcheting noise you mention as it cuts out and in very fast. It would remain lit in this case.

You can try increasing the speed of the pump a smidge to see if it stops the noise. Of course this would then mean all your rads would need to be rebalanced, which you can do yourself and is quite fun

Cheers - think it was set to 2 (on a scale of 1-3). Heating's off at the mo.

[suityou01]

Stays lit. Seem to have plenty of hot water, so not a biggie. Got immersion as backup if required.

There is an outside chance that when the pump was changed the speed was set too low. This would cause the water to not "get away" from the boiler quick enough, causing a thermal cut out. This can sometimes cause the ratcheting noise you mention as it cuts out and in very fast. It would remain lit in this case.

You can try increasing the speed of the pump a smidge to see if it stops the noise. Of course this would then mean all your rads would need to be rebalanced, which you can do yourself and is quite fun

Edit : This could wait a bit as you're not using the rads currently (I hope)

[PurpleGorilla]

Our old boiler sounded like eurofighter taking off.

The water here is very hard and it was the limescale inside the boiler.

[ctdctd]

If it's clicking (AKA ratcheting) then it's not igniting straight away.

It's that's a new noise, get a man in.

Mine did it for seven years, got slowly worse, then it died - so be quick about it :-)

HTH