Main Boiler Fault Codes / Error Codes

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Main boilers are a part of Baxi Heating, which claims to be one of the best known and trusted heating and hot water brands for residential and commercial heating in the UK and Ireland. 

They state that sustainability is embedded in all that they do and that they are committed to being a cleaner, greener manufacturing business that is developing technologies to help customers heat their homes without warming the planet. 

Sounds great hey? Until your boiler breaks down… Well, panic no more, this blog is here to save the day! 

Before we get into the dreaded error code section of this blog, let’s take a look at what customers think about their Main boilers. 

During the Which? Best Buy survey 2020, over 7,500 boiler owners and 152 Which? Trusted Traders heating engineers were asked what they thought about their Main boiler. 
Main scored an overall brand score of 48%, which is significantly less than their parent boiler brand, Baxi, who scored an overall 71%. Here are the survey results:

Which? Best Buy Survey 2020 Results:

Although these scores suggest that customers were not as impressed with their Main boilers as they would have been with other well-known brands such as Worcester Bosch and Ideal, we can see that engineers have rated this boiler highly suggesting that it is easy to install and spares and parts are easy to get hold of. 

Now that you have a bit of background on Main boilers, let’s get into the Main error codes. We provide these error codes to help you identify the issue with your boiler and hopefully fix it yourself. If you identify an internal issue with your Main boiler then you will need to contact a Gas Safe Engineer to come and take a look.