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Gramaisc

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Cue

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Emptied the condensate manually and the boiler sprung into life. However we now aren't sure if the pipe is thawed or not as it isn't wet at all. Time will tell, at least the house is warm again
 

Rikki

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E28 is frozen condensate almost certainly. Try more hot water. But it could be somewhere awward to get at not knowing how the pipes run means it's hard to say.

Doubt baxi will come out as it won't be covered by warranty.
 

Rikki

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Manually emptying condensate will only fix temporarily. Don't leave it disconnected as you may in effect allow the boiler to flue into the house. Depends on how you'e done it.
 

Bob

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What's the deal with school closures, head teacher here seems to have something serious to prove with not shutting the school, so bus to high school cannot get down the road past this school, it's so out of the way less than 10 kids live within a mile radius, none of the roads have been gritted but are like a condensed ice rink and every other school bar one (which is in the centre of town) within a 10 mile radius is shut.

I think it's foolish and dangerous and a massive mistake, I'm not the most confident of icy lane drivers anyway but especially when it comes to bundling up the two most precious people in my world to risk an ice rink drive so they can sit in a breeze block box and not be allowed to play outside just so the head can give themself a big pat on the back - crazy!
 

Cue

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Manually emptying condensate will only fix temporarily. Don't leave it disconnected as you may in effect allow the boiler to flue into the house. Depends on how you'e done it.

We put it back after. There's a plastic pipe coming out but the other end is metal, poking out the side of the house with a welded end and a small slit to let water escape. Tried hairdryer, hot water, etc with no luck. It doesn't make much sense that it's metal outside but plastic at the boiler to me - but there's only two pipes out of the house other than the gas pipe and the other is the toilet overflow.

We let it heat the house after emptying for a bit (with the pipe back in), however it started making a rather unpleasant rumbling sound so I've turned it off again. Can't get hold of our gas engineer at the moment either (he's probably having the exact same day as you)

Fun day!
 

Cue

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The metal pipe isn't the condensate it' the pressure relife valve pipe

Yeah, just discovered that. Now to find the actual pipe... only one I can think of (as our entire drainage system isn't backed up) is the toilet overflow pipe but I don't see how they would have gotten a pipe over to that really. Would the hot water tank have had a drainage pipe too? The boiler is using the old tank piping.
 

staffordjas

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E28 is frozen condensate almost certainly. Try more hot water. But it could be somewhere awward to get at not knowing how the pipes run means it's hard to say.

Doubt baxi will come out as it won't be covered by warranty.
Thanks @Rikki
The plumber who installed the Baxi told me to ring him with any problems first as he's a baxi agent , but as he says there isn't anything else he can do more than we have already been doing with the hot air and water. He did run a larger pipe over the original pipe outside for me when he put the new boiler in, but as he says people with internal outlets are having problems in these temperatures. (Rang him again today with it starting up twice this morning and cutting out again. Thought it might have been another problem with it, but he says it's kicked in when it's thawed a bit and made room for more water to build up before freezing again)

Roll on summer ...
 

Cue

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Resolved ours!

Turns out what I thought was the toilet overflow was in fact the condensate pipe. Engineer has been and cut the condensate pipe to flow into a bucket in the cupboard for regular emptying until we can get a permanent fix in place once the weather has calmed down.
 

Gramaisc

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The wind is becoming an issue - it shifts heat away very quickly and, after they managed to keep almost all trains running in Ireland up to now, it's finally pushed the sea up onto the DART tracks.

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gilbert grape

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Snow started to drift quite badly up our street so I went out a shovelled a walkway of a foot or so wide down most of one path (about 50 yards) but just had a look and it's started to cover over quite quickly. Ho hum, at least it's reduced the level to a walkable state!
In a society where we too often get "you can't do this or that, in case somebody falls" I had a look for the facts.

https://www.gov.uk/clear-snow-road-path-cycleway
 
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