Medium
S.96 on Glow-worm Energy7 System

Your boiler is currently running a self-check or has detected an issue with a sensor that monitors the temperature of the water coming back from your radiators, so it has stopped heating as a precaution.

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This fault should be looked at by a Gas Safe engineer within the next week or two. It may get worse if left.

What the manual says

Manufacturer manual

Automatic test programme: Return temperature sensor, heating demands blocked.

Shared across the Energy7 range
This code is shared by the boilers in this range, which use the same control board. It may not be printed in this exact variant’s manual.
Plain-English guidance below. Severity, DIY steps, costs and parts are our interpretation to help you act, not text from the manual.

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All 95 fault codes on the Energy7 System

Seeing a different code? Every code this model can display, in one place.

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