flue analysis ..is it servicing?

[Scott_D]

What other checks/tests do you complete when servicing?

 

[Riley]

Are you asking? Or asking the OP mate?

 

[townfanjon]

I think you are just getting confused with the decimal point and where it goes .

 

[Scott_D]

Are you asking? Or asking the OP mate?

The Op
Just thinking the company procedure might be to do the minimum safety checks, touch nothing else and he has to do lots in a day. Or he might not know what should be covered.

 

[snowhead]

If the customer is asking for a Boiler service then that's what they'll expect, regardless of any FGA readings, strip down as per M.I's

If your employed by someone offering annual checks as part of a comprehensive maintenance contract and their instruction to you is not to strip if the FGA results are within a particular limit, then that's what you'd do.

But if that was me I wouldn't be putting anything down about the boiler being serviced, only that it was within acceptable limits.

If you're employed by someone who wants a high, fixed number of services done per day, get another job.

I'm glad I only ever did commercial and didn't fall into this got to do a fixed number of Domestic boilers lark.

 

[Riley]

The Op
Just thinking the company procedure might be to do the minimum safety checks, touch nothing else and he has to do lots in a day. Or he might not know what should be covered.

Fair one mate

 

[CHILOR]

Thank you Sam. Reading and passing it and practically doing it as a profession are 2 different things.You have gathered your experiences over the years.You didn't know everything about boilers the day you qualify?..You have failed in some aspects and asked questions no matter how stupid they may sound. So that is the courage people get to join a group like this. When you are taken on by a company to do 8 services/safety check a day.. it's a different ball game. Time and pressure. Little things you know before begin to disappear. You dont want to let yourself down.
Many of us who's been qualified over 10 years will still fail the exams when they take it again.
I have installed different boilers over 3.5 years but now im going around doing servicing and looking for faults. I do open boilers to check all the content involved in the exercise...but would you strip a boiler that's working fine and after all the said checks when nothing is wrong with it?
I'm just looking for clarity. In the case of ratios i have done my honework now...I'm good. Thanks

 

[Riley]

I don’t think Sam is having a go at you I think he is asking have you actually had any practical experience of using an analyser prior to going out in the wide world? The guy that I learned from was proper old school but liked the idea of the fluegas analyser and was using one from very early on when a lot of engineers were still thinking they were snake oil. I know some companies have a policy about stripping down boilers however I think a lot of guys that work for themselves would carry out what a lot of us class as a proper service based on the guidance from the manufacturers instructions. The whole reason in the first place for analysers was British Gas getting so many callbacks when their engineers were rushing and hadn’t put the boiler casings back on properly it was costing them a fortune. They worked on the basis that if the analyser readings were okay then a full strip down wasn’t necessary. You can see the merits of this however it is not what I would call thorough as we all know that some gasket seals need replacing and how would you feel if that failed six months after you’ve carried out a “service” resulting in a dead boiler when a simple strip down and gasket replacement would’ve prevented it.

 

[Harvest Fields]

Have you not doing an FGA on your installs mate?

 

[CHILOR]

If the customer is asking for a Boiler service then that's what they'll expect, regardless of any FGA readings, strip down as per M.I's

If your employed by someone offering annual checks as part of a comprehensive maintenance contract and their instruction to you is not to strip if the FGA results are within a particular limit, then that's what you'd do.

But if that was me I wouldn't be putting anything down about the boiler being serviced, only that it was within acceptable limits.

If you're employed by someone who wants a high, fixed number of services done per day, get another job.

I'm glad I only ever did commercial and didn't fall into this got to do a fixed number of Domestic boilers lark.

Snowhead, thanks very much for your response. There's great differences between gas safe checks and servicing. I'm doing gas safe checks and now understand what I'm up to. Thanks...