Gas water heater repair
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Gas water heater repair
Yesterday our gas water heater decided to stop working. Of course it would happen on a Sunday...
Never mind I thought, people will be working on Monday - wrong!
So it looks like we'll have to rely on friends and neighbours to keep us clean for a while longer.
The pilot light for the heater works fine, but when you turn it so that it will heat water on demand, the flame goes out. As best as I can work out, this is most likely to be a fault with the heat sensitive valve that controls the flow of gas to the main burners.
Hopefully it will just need a repair, but I could do with some recommendations, if anyone has any, for someone in our area (Prades) to fix / service the water heater.
I don't want to call someone out all the way from Perpignan and then get hit with some ridiculous mileage charge.
Any recommendations as 2012 fades out?
Cheers (and a happy New Year to all),
Chris
Never mind I thought, people will be working on Monday - wrong!
So it looks like we'll have to rely on friends and neighbours to keep us clean for a while longer.
The pilot light for the heater works fine, but when you turn it so that it will heat water on demand, the flame goes out. As best as I can work out, this is most likely to be a fault with the heat sensitive valve that controls the flow of gas to the main burners.
Hopefully it will just need a repair, but I could do with some recommendations, if anyone has any, for someone in our area (Prades) to fix / service the water heater.
I don't want to call someone out all the way from Perpignan and then get hit with some ridiculous mileage charge.
Any recommendations as 2012 fades out?
Cheers (and a happy New Year to all),
Chris
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Thanks for all the replies.
Of the messages I left on peoples phones over New Year, the first to call back was from Eus and he and his mate duly arrived as promised 20 minutes later.
They agreed with me that it must be the thermocouple, which only took a few minutes to remove.
It will interesting to see how long it takes them to get a replacement and how much it costs. I can get one for under £10 in the UK...
Maybe I'll check their part number and lay in a spare.
I'll report back on how it works out.
Cheers,
Chris
Of the messages I left on peoples phones over New Year, the first to call back was from Eus and he and his mate duly arrived as promised 20 minutes later.
They agreed with me that it must be the thermocouple, which only took a few minutes to remove.
It will interesting to see how long it takes them to get a replacement and how much it costs. I can get one for under £10 in the UK...
Maybe I'll check their part number and lay in a spare.
I'll report back on how it works out.
Cheers,
Chris
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We have hot water again!
It took 24 hours to get the part, so we were up and running again in just over a day.
Very happy to have had a quick response and solution (although it was not the most difficult thing to fix).
29 euros for the part, 40 euros for the labour.
Pretty good for rural France.
The guy that did the work is Cedric Wargnier from Los Masos 06 14 47 47 81
Very pleasant and prompt. Did everything as promised, so he gets a thumbs up from me.
Thanks to everyone for their advice. A great example of how this forum helps us all.
Cheers,
Chris
It took 24 hours to get the part, so we were up and running again in just over a day.
Very happy to have had a quick response and solution (although it was not the most difficult thing to fix).
29 euros for the part, 40 euros for the labour.
Pretty good for rural France.
The guy that did the work is Cedric Wargnier from Los Masos 06 14 47 47 81
Very pleasant and prompt. Did everything as promised, so he gets a thumbs up from me.
Thanks to everyone for their advice. A great example of how this forum helps us all.
Cheers,
Chris