commercial pictures ?

[bennygas]

Ah I see. Looks ace though.

 

[missplumb]

it took an hour for the boiler to heat the 15000 litre buffer. Rural Energy handed it over today and cleared out so will get some better pics tomorrow

 

[bennygas]

That's quick! Class.

 

[aligorgon]

nice bit of asbestos ... apparently its ok as long as you don't scratch it.... funnily enough the health and safety bigwigs never seem to come down here....

 

[aligorgon]

i know lol have to walk all over it at the back to do a fga...

 

[Dotty]

Refuse to do it

Your life isn't worth a cheap boiler

I agree, every time you step on it you're disturbing it and putting yourself at the risk of exposure.

 

[aligorgon]

i agree too but at the time I was working for Norland honestly the worst company i have ever worked for and didn't have much choice in the matter.

after i refused to do a 18 hr day after a 14hr day with a 6 hr rest between whilst on call too (none of this work was a call out) i was summoned down to luton for a meeting and mutually walked. even though their working policy states that engineers working on a mobile basis MUST NOT work and drive more than 12 hrs day.

I pointed this out and was told it was advisory... when i started laughing and said so your claiming MUST NOT is advisory i was asked to leave... haha

 

[aligorgon]

oh and just to add these boilers were in a school in bridlington i had 8 different schools there and about 40 boilers between them the majority of which were those MHS Strata 1's all giving out around 18k ppm of CO when i arrived, how those things ever got through testing i will never know...

you can spend hrs getting them burning correctly on both burners throughout the range, them come back a week later stick your fga probe in and they are way out of scope again.

I was on my own and had 3 wks to do them all including any remedials on boilers, pressurisation units etc....

 

[Scott_D]

A bit of welding today. 1 man point if you can guess the pipe size from the number of bolt holes

 

[chris watkins]

View attachment 18184 A bit of welding today. 1 man point if you can guess the pipe size from the number of bolt holes

2" ? going on the size of the scaffold tube next to it.

 

[Dotty]

3"...

 

[Gray0689]

3"...

I agree scaffold pole is 1 1/2

 

[chris watkins]

Looks like I should have stayed with my first thoughts.

 

[on31ll]

15mm ?

 

[missplumb]

id say 2", looks a good job:smile5:

 

[Ermintrude]

3" tube

 

[Scott_D]

2 1/2" no man points tonight.
3" flanges have 8 bolt holes

 

[Roger Welton]

2 1/2" no man points tonight.
3" flanges have 8 bolt holes

You can get flanges in various configurations or as blanks to drill as you like

 

[on31ll]

So its really not 15mm ?

 

[chris watkins]

So its really not 15mm ?

If it makes you feel better, then yes it is 15mm.

 

[missplumb]

FAO Josh - here are a few pics of some installs we have done in larger residential buildings and commercial premises.

 

[Gray0689]

Impressive work there

 

[IDCHAPPY]

Nothing huge but we maintain these:

 

[Ermintrude]

Like the laundry equipment. I hope there is and Andrews water heater and a room vented tumble-dryer in there too.

 

[IDCHAPPY]

Like the laundry equipment. I hope there is and Andrews water heater and a room vented tumble-dryer in there too.

There is an unvented cylinder in there as well.... the place is at least 25°C... maybe more :lol:

 

[chris watkins]

There is an unvented cylinder in there as well.... the place is at least 25°C... maybe more :lol:

So typical working conditions for a boiler engineer then !!Hot as ...:devil:

 

[Scott_D]

A bit more welding to finish these two Strebel SCB 150's off

 

[IDCHAPPY]

Not a huge Fan of Strebels TBH, can't be commissioned by just turning them on :lol:.
Needed on of their service team with a laptop to set up the 2 we fitted into master and slave.

 

[Scott_D]

Not a huge Fan of Strebels TBH, can't be commissioned by just turning them on :lol:.
Needed on of their service team with a laptop to set up the 2 we fitted into master and slave.

Yeah they always send someone to commission them.

 

[Ermintrude]

Yeah they always send someone to commission them.

Who knows less than u about the system but can literally adjust appliances !

 

[bennygas]

Tidy job Scott

 

[josh]

Thanks miss plumb for posting,
always like geeking out on good pictures!


Missplumb, what's going on in pic 5 with the red rectangular box?


Also, went to PHEX at Alexandra palace on Wednesday, was well worth going, seemed to be more commercial boilers on display than domestic, anyway the alpha rep was showing us their 'ARES Tec' boiler, must admit he gave a good sale and I was quite impressed to be honest.
Anyone had any experience with them yet and are they any good and the way things will go?

 

[Ermintrude]

View attachment 18795View attachment 18796
A bit more welding to finish these two Strebel SCB 150's off

Bit of a throttle down there. 6" to 2" in 9"? Nice weld tho, no slag and no splatter? You dad do it? Wish mine were always that tidy. Jesus some look line the lid of bait cabin microwave !

 

[Scott_D]

Bit of a throttle down there. 6" to 2" in 9"? Nice weld tho, no slag and no splatter? You dad do it? Wish mine were always that tidy. Jesus some look line the lid of bait cabin microwave !

Its 3" to 2" (2" connection on the gas meter)
Its my own handy work, when you get the amps just right the slag peels it self off and you can pat yourself on the back.

 

[josh]

Where I've been this week they had to put a steel across a high ceiling garage to take garage door and motor for it so the builder welded plates to either end of it to fix it to wall with a tiny little machine that looked like he'd got it from the car boot, was hitting the slag of with a lump of metal and looked like his welds were done by a 5 year old, you would have screwed if you'd seen it Scott.

The lump of steel is now hanging 9' of the floor with the garage door on it, I'm back there tomorrow so see if it's still holding up!