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Originally Posted by Mick
By the sounds of it, you have a Conventional Boiler system, e.g not a Combi boiler that heats water instantly on hot tap flow.
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Yup, conventional boiler.
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The switch you mention is to power on the immersion heater. Immersion heater should only be used, as a fast source of heating water in the tank. A number of potential issues can occur, bad heating element, bad wiring, blocked or dead pump, which would affect water pressure. You could try turning thermostat down, see if that stops the tripping.
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Nah, tried turning it all the way down. The fact it trips literally the moment I switch it on makes me think it must be quite close to the electrics rather than anything deeper inside the mechinisms themselves, there is no time for anything else to kick in.
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Self repair is inexpensive if you know what you’re doing, parts can be obtained from screw fix, B&Q etc. Bear in the mind that it is illegal to tinker with the Boiler systems, by anyone not certified as Gas Safe Registered, what used to be classed as CORGI. But this issue you’re having, is more electrical than gas.
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Nah, I won't touch it unless it's very, very simple. The fact I don't actually know what the correct terms are or what anything is connected too proves I shouldn't be touching anything. I do want to understand the problem a bit better though so I am not taken for a ride by whomever I call in. I don't want this to be days of a plumber saying it's an electric problem and an electrician saying it's a plumbing problem. I have very bad luck with tradesmen. Central heating is an annoying hybrid of the two disciplines as well.