The Ideal Icostalot Repair

[@SteveB-xz2zy]

I’m screaming ‘check the spark generator!’ 😂

[@RJHeating]

Me too…now 😂😂 as I say, one of those days where you can’t see the wood for the trees, pressure was on for various reasons and just wasn’t in the game! Thanks for watching!!

[@alanjones1301]

another great video pal morale of the story - runaway from Icos's haha most manufacturers support read from a script tbh but as you said some are better than others

[@RJHeating]

@@alanjones1301 thank you! I’m hearing this more frequently that people are disappointed with Tech, I’ve generally found them to be good and if anything, some can be slightly condescending! Definitely - see an Icos - run, don’t look back unless it’s to put a new boiler in its place 😂

[@alanjones1301]

😂😂😂 got to be one of the worst boilers in history Ideal have not made a good boiler since the bulletproof Classic? only thing that ever went wrong was the fan i think i only ever changed one PCB ​ @@RJHeating

[@paulsmith2931]

Basic stuff that mate check there is power to the generator before just replacing the electrode

[@RJHeating]

@@paulsmith2931 I know, that’s what I said after. Just one of those days where your heads not on properly and you’re missing the obvious! Happens to the best of us!

[@russellbaldry5095]

I think the ideal icos/isar boilers were the reason ideal revamped thier whole boiler range with the introduction of the logic/independent. Once they started to go wrong it was so expensive to get them going again as the parts list grows 💸💸💸

[@alanjones1301]

ideal have not made a good boiler since the bulletproof classic

[@RJHeating]

@@russellbaldry5095 they were the last in a long line of rubbish! Do you remember the Response 🫨🫨🫨

[@RJHeating]

@@alanjones1301 I still have a few Classics on my books - and Potterton Profiles!

[@russellbaldry5095]

Yeah i only ever came across 2 ideal responce boilers, dont think they were very popular but was the first one with the u shape flue clamp which was about the best thing on it🤣🤦🏼‍♂️

[@RJHeating]

@@russellbaldry5095 oh did it? I don’t even remember that bit 😂 changed countless heat exchangers on them 🤯 and the flow switch was at the back left underneath the boiler with a tiny pin you had to line up by touch rather than sight - Eugh! Then they bought out the flue thermostat kit you had to drill into the boiler with!

[@k20aa]

So easy when you work for ideal and you have a van full of parts and they hit it with the parts cannon

[@RJHeating]

@@k20aa the old “boiler in a bag” reminds me of my early days at BG - chuck parts until it works 😂

[@waseemkhaliq933]

Hi mate what’s the electric screwdriver you use please

[@RJHeating]

@@waseemkhaliq933 it’s a Vessel USB+ the best place to obtain one is @supreme_handtools on instagram - he’s the UK distributor. Tell him I sent you! 🪛 www.supremehandtools.co.uk

[@brendanfisher2528]

Horrible these faults! When it's multiple issues, it feels like your just throwing parts and look incompetent infront of the customer.. when it reality, sometimes your jumping from one fault to another! I had it with a viessman.. everything I replaced a part, another fault came up, and was a 3 days waiting time for the parts, I went back with diffrent fault codes and parts each time until I had to walk away..

[@RJHeating]

@@brendanfisher2528 ahhh no! I feel your pain! You get to that point where you think why on earth didn’t I recommend a manufacturer visit 😂 even the Ideal tech said on this one he would have straight away said new boiler! Only saving grace was recon boards in the first instance so they only cost £75 where I get them from!

[@RJHeating]

@@brendanfisher2528 do you come across many Viessmann? I’m not a fan but considering a second look at them as I’m hearing good things!

[@ianbelletti6241]

All you can do is fix one problem at a time. It does happen that one problem can reveal the next problem.

[@happybunny7490]

If not sparking you be the spark gen you check first - between blue and brown 2M ohms

[@RJHeating]

@@happybunny7490 looking for 240v between the brown and blue connected onto the spark gen when it attempts to ignite

[@brianmayne6513]

Better with a new boiler

[@RJHeating]

@@brianmayne6513 I agree, sometimes the budget doesn’t permit though 😭

[@themlotproductions]

Talking over your own dialogue.

[@RJHeating]

@@themlotproductions ok Paul 😂 sorry I’m not Tarantino yet