thevillage_Brian
New Member
Hi All,
I had an issue with my heating / hot water over the last few weeks. Initially I thought it was a problem with the boiler as it wasn't firing when I set the HW or CH to active on the panel in the kitchen.
I had a plumber take a look and he figured out the problem was with the Siemens switches in the water tank press. The switches are silver boxes attached to the pipes in the press that should kick in once you knock on the red light on the kitchen panel (there's a box each for the HW and the CH in the press).
Both of these switches have now stopped working (I don't know if it was a coincidence that they both stopped working at the same time). I can manually start the CH/HW but it means switching on the red light in the kitchen AND using a screwdriver on the pipe/box in the press....same routine to knock it off. Not ideal......
The plumber tells me the Siemens switches alone cost €200 each, not including installation. Has anyone come across this before and if so how did they get it resolved?
Any advice appreciated.....
I had an issue with my heating / hot water over the last few weeks. Initially I thought it was a problem with the boiler as it wasn't firing when I set the HW or CH to active on the panel in the kitchen.
I had a plumber take a look and he figured out the problem was with the Siemens switches in the water tank press. The switches are silver boxes attached to the pipes in the press that should kick in once you knock on the red light on the kitchen panel (there's a box each for the HW and the CH in the press).
Both of these switches have now stopped working (I don't know if it was a coincidence that they both stopped working at the same time). I can manually start the CH/HW but it means switching on the red light in the kitchen AND using a screwdriver on the pipe/box in the press....same routine to knock it off. Not ideal......
The plumber tells me the Siemens switches alone cost €200 each, not including installation. Has anyone come across this before and if so how did they get it resolved?
Any advice appreciated.....