APOLLO 15/30B WALL MOUNTED GAS BOILER -I have recently had a new consumer unit fitted My honeywell programmer had not been working correctly as it no longer allowed the heating/water to come on automatically. The heating has not been put on since the beginning of May. The water was heating up ok by manual operation following the fitting of the consumer unit but when we tried the heating it worked for about 10 minutes before tripping the whole circuit. The programmer stopped working and was removed in order to get a new one. When the consumer unit was reset the boiler was still coming on and then tripping everything else immediately producing a very loud "bang" from the boiler . I know this is an old boiler but it has worked ok until recently, only the pilot lite has had to be fixed before. Can anyone help please?

Mrs J Fisher, September 2008

you will probably find the TV interferance surpressor, located in the control box on the lower right hand side of the boiler, was the cause of the bang. When they start to fail they will trip the rcd and when they finally go they go off like a firework. If you know anything about electrics, turn off the power supply open the control box and remove the surpressor from the terminal block. It will look like a burnt out firework with two black wires and an earth wire (usually). They are not nornmally required with most modern TVs. Then all should work ok - good luck

Paul the gasman, September 2008

Call a corgie registered heeting engineer, do not mess with gas boilers, unless you are fed up with this life that it.

Joe, September 2008