Sometimes I wonder about myself.

[Mike Jackson]

Making alterations to a fair sized system at the moment and got the pipework finished bar the cold feed yesterday. Before running the cold feed I wanted to air test the whole system as the place is too big for me to go running around looking for leaks and wanted to re fix the boards with the system full of air. As it's a bog old system I took my compressor with me today.

Fitted the test gauge onto the stub for the AAV and connected the air line. The pressure just wouldn't rise. I was hunting for leaks when I noticed that I hadn't capped off the cold feed. There was a 28mm open end just sitting there. No wonder the system wouldn't pressurise. Slung a cap on and the pressure went up straight away. Couldn't believe I was sitting under the open end and didn't twig why the pressure wasn't rising.

A couple of tweaks on compression nuts and the pressure held for well over an hour. Made for a much more leisurely fill up with no rushing around looking for leaks.

 

[Rickster123]

God job you tested it mike! 28mm open ends can make a lot of mess very quickly!

 

[nysk2008]

To be fair at least u check mate. difficult to check everything when your runnin g around like a blue ars** fly.. If that and a few compressions were the only issues then superb - go grab yourself a few bevvys and chill for the evening. sometimes the biggest things just stare us in the face

 

[mountainman]

Every day is a learning day in this game!

 

[SafeGasInstall]

pls dont forget to take it out MJ