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[Closed] Boiler woes. Advice please!

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Sh&t topic for a Saturday night but here goes...
Have come on holiday , having turned off the gas and water , but left the electricity and the combo boiler both turned on. So the boiler will turn on as usual tonight on the timer .

Will this do the boiler any harm? I am thinking (hoping!) it won't as without gas it can't heat up ...

Should I go home ( 4 hour tound trip ) or will it be ok?

Thanks


 
Posted : 23/09/2017 7:56 pm
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It simply won't light and there'll be a warning light illuminated when you return.

Howzat?


 
Posted : 23/09/2017 8:29 pm
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Cheers mate

Know nowt about that sort of thing


 
Posted : 23/09/2017 10:35 pm
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I didn’t realise people turned stuff off like gas and water when they go away.
I never have. And I used to go away for months at a time a while ago.

The boiler will be fine though. No worries there.


 
Posted : 23/09/2017 11:32 pm
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Mrs b wants to unplug everything that she can apart from the fridge and freezer as she trusts them 🙄


 
Posted : 23/09/2017 11:47 pm
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I feel your pain. The only things that Mrs A allows to be on when nobody is home are the boiler , the fridge freezer and the router. And accepting those took a load of persuading. I leave for work earlier than she does, thus she has free rein to turn everything off, repeatedly checking that she has done so. It is not a lot of fun TBH.


 
Posted : 24/09/2017 12:07 am
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I used to go away for three months at a time. I unplugged everything I could rather than turn the power off as I had to keep the heating on frost protect. Next doors chimney got hit by lightning which destroyed every electrical item in their house (it's a semi). All I had was a blown fuse in my coffee machine as I forgot to unplug it!


 
Posted : 24/09/2017 7:10 am