13/02/2026
If ever there was an advert for not trying to fix your boiler yourself, here it is!
We had a customer call after they had run out of oil and they had bled the oil line of air themselves but the following day they had noticed the wall around the flue didn't look right, it was at this point they gave us a call.
When we arrived today it was clear to us what had happened. Instead of opening the bleed point on the fuel pump they had adjusted the fuel pressure. Eventually the boiler fired up and they guessed that they had fixed it. Unfortunately that wasn't really the case.
With the fuel pressure no longer being correct the boiler was running over fueled which caused the boiler to soot up and what could have been a very easy job turned into a very dirty longer job. Thankfully after cleaning the boiler out, a replacement burner nozzle and a new oil line as it was out of date the boiler is now back up and running!