After having a new boiler fitted two years ago, and having it regularly serviced, it decided to pack in last night. So I now have the space heater from the garage trying (without much luck) to keep the family abit warm

Still, hopefully the gas plumber man will be here soon and wave his magic wand over it.

Gas man's coming to service ours tomorrow for the first time since he fitted it 4 years ago - I feel rather slack for not having kept on top of it!

Hope you keep warm!

Ours broke down the week we had the really bad snow. The day the engineer was due to come was the wednesday when the snow fell really bad around lincolnshire, so he couldnt come as everyone was snowed in. In the end we was without Hot water, or central heating for 11 days

Luckily we have an open fire in the lounge, and an electric shower, else we'd have had to move in with someone else due to how cold it was. you could see your breath misting up when you was breathing, and the bathroom was premanently wet due to the room being cold, and the hot mist from the shower. The towels wouldnt dry out properly.

When the engineers came (it was a 2 man job to replace the heat exchanger) one of them asked if he could use the bathroom.
He came back down stairs and came out with: "Its surprising how cold a house can get.." NO s**t!! we'd been like that for 11 days..

Frozen outlet on condenser perhaps?

if its a condensing boiler check the outlet pipe....my neighbours froze up at 9pm last night,i lent him my hot air gun he went up his ladder de iced the pipe and boiler fired up again, its happening loads and call out guys are making a fortune...dont begrudge them though but can be an easy diy fix

One of the Lads i work with has been doing very well Lately (£'s) on thoring out Condense pipework

Some of the installs He/We've seen lately have been poor to say the least

Condense Pipework Not lagged, Pipework run onto Flat roofs an 1/2" above the surface etc

[Edited on 20/12/10 by perksy]

Mine froze up sat night. took pipe off and got the ice out. fired up right away. A lot are having this problem right now.