Home & Garden - 6 December 2006

Ive got a baxi 105e combi and its behaving very badly, the hot water side is fine and so is the heating.... to a point.
When the timer kicks in, it will fire up, get to temp (after prob 15-20mins) and then shut down and thats it. It wont heat again unless its been switched off for a while and cooled off.
Some times it will maintain the temp for a few hours sometimes a few minutes.
Ive tried-
Replaceing the heating thermostat... it worked for a day then failed.
Stripped the 3 way valve- diaphrams ok, all parts free & not siezed.... it worked for a day then failed.
Bridged the timer out so was on constant.... it worked for 2 days then failed.
Emptied the whole system and re-filled (with inhibiter)... same story, worked for a while then failed again.
Ive spoke to a couple of plumbers and the general consession was to keep buying new parts and fitting until the problem went away??? (this is why I haven't involved them yet!)
Anyone qualified who knows what they are talking about?

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