boiler for a swimming pool

[nadia69]

any of you guys ever fitted a boiler for a swimming pool ? he has had one quote from the swimming pool engineer who want to do a like for like swap, and he is getting advice from the plumbers merchant to put another boiler in and adapt the pipe work. so he wants me to have a look does it have to be a cast iron heat exchanger boiler etc and what do i have to be careful of when quoting , chemicals etc and does it have to be A rated, cheers in advance

 

[mountainman]

I'd walk away from this job if I were you.

 

[Killy Bing]

You need your hwb ticket to do it to start with.
swimming pool boilers are slightly different beasts with slightly different rules to stick to.

if you're not confident don't do it.

 

[nadia69]

You need your hwb ticket to do it to start with.
swimming pool boilers are slightly different beasts with slightly different rules to stick to.

if you're not confident don't do it.

ok thanks for the advice guys

 

[nadia69]

You need your hwb ticket to do it to start with.
swimming pool boilers are slightly different beasts with slightly different rules to stick to.

if you're not confident don't do it.

hwb ? is that hot water boiler. i have water heater ticket on me gas safe

 

[Killy Bing]

HWB1 swimming pool boilers.


it doesn't come under your boilers and water heaters cenwat1

 

[nadia69]

HWB1 swimming pool boilers.


it doesn't come under your boilers and water heaters cenwat1

ok cheers that saves me going up there to look at it

 

[Killy Bing]

It could be a regular boiler onto a heat exchanger BUT if you but that to a condensing boiler

the boiler will run constantly for days on end, at low temps, the condense will ruin it then.

 

[basildog]

A lot depends what sort of system he has now but if you have never done it I would stay away ?
We have done both a small heat exchanger (stainless steel ) Linked to domestic boiler running both swimming pools and hot tubs .
My old pool held 90,000 litres so you can imagine the time it takes to warm that lump up !
Then you move into dedicated swimming pool boilers we have only done oil on any jobs as a bit rural round here also the pool guys set it all up as with everything it is probably easy but until you are shown it is all black magic ?

 

[basildog]

It could be a regular boiler onto a heat exchanger BUT if you but that to a condensing boiler

the boiler will run constantly for days on end, at low temps, the condense will ruin it then.

Would it not run at correct temperature to condense as your primary circuit would be at optimum operating temperature when heating was running ?
Guess a lot would be down to correct sizing of heat exchanger as you have a massive flow through them but they really are very small ?