Is your boler a combi?
If it is you have a valve that swaps from Ch to DHW.
If you live in a hard water area it could be scaled up.
I have just benn through this with an Ariston Combi.
I ended up replceing the boiler because it was cheaper than repairing a ten year old unit.
Simon Gibbs
March 2008
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