Oh no, not again!
Mar. 5th, 2022 11:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamsharktldr; no heat. Again.
This is what happens when you replace an ancient boiler that had continued to function for 100 years with a nice, new state of the art boiler. Now 7 years old, the new one is having one midlife crisis after another. First the Gas Valve started faltering in early January (which you might recall was the middle of the coldest cold wave in the past decade, featuring multiple nights in the double digits below zero). After the gas valve was replaced, everything was hunky-dory until the next cold wave rolled in a couple of weeks later, at which point the Pilot Assembly started failing intermittently and was replaced Jan 21. February was uneventful and the weather even warmed up. At which point (yesterday, to be precise) the circuit board that coordinates the surprisingly elaborate restart sequence just crapped out, ending up with ERR 64 blinking on the front after each restart attempt.
So once again we have no heat. The part has to be ordered from the manufacturer and cannot be obtained sooner than Monday morning. Fortunately we are past the dead of winter and this house holds heat well. After 24 hours we are still above 60 degrees indoors. And Midland Heating is sending over 3 or 4 loaner space heaters to keep us alive until Monday. I do not blame Midland for their inability to fix the boiler so far. They have been extremely responsive, helpful and professional, and their techs have thoroughly explained everything they did. There really did seem to be a problem with the two components they replaced, and they made no attempt to upsell a new boiler. In retrospect that might have been cheaper in the long run, but that wasn't obvious from the beginning. And they didn't sell us this boiler, so if it's a lemon we can't blame them for that. This is getting tiresome, however. And chilly.
This is what happens when you replace an ancient boiler that had continued to function for 100 years with a nice, new state of the art boiler. Now 7 years old, the new one is having one midlife crisis after another. First the Gas Valve started faltering in early January (which you might recall was the middle of the coldest cold wave in the past decade, featuring multiple nights in the double digits below zero). After the gas valve was replaced, everything was hunky-dory until the next cold wave rolled in a couple of weeks later, at which point the Pilot Assembly started failing intermittently and was replaced Jan 21. February was uneventful and the weather even warmed up. At which point (yesterday, to be precise) the circuit board that coordinates the surprisingly elaborate restart sequence just crapped out, ending up with ERR 64 blinking on the front after each restart attempt.
So once again we have no heat. The part has to be ordered from the manufacturer and cannot be obtained sooner than Monday morning. Fortunately we are past the dead of winter and this house holds heat well. After 24 hours we are still above 60 degrees indoors. And Midland Heating is sending over 3 or 4 loaner space heaters to keep us alive until Monday. I do not blame Midland for their inability to fix the boiler so far. They have been extremely responsive, helpful and professional, and their techs have thoroughly explained everything they did. There really did seem to be a problem with the two components they replaced, and they made no attempt to upsell a new boiler. In retrospect that might have been cheaper in the long run, but that wasn't obvious from the beginning. And they didn't sell us this boiler, so if it's a lemon we can't blame them for that. This is getting tiresome, however. And chilly.
