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Barry98
Think her brother in law must o run out of copper hence the flex's
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HALL of SHAME PHOTo`s
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Speaking of 'where's the prv?' look at this I found the other day on a Worcester Greenstar R25HE. Boiler was about 7 years old. No pipework for the prv could be seen anywhere and someone thought the best thing to stop it dripping is a black iron plug.
I AR'd the boiler and drained some water off as it had gone up to 3 bar.
I AR'd the boiler and drained some water off as it had gone up to 3 bar.
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wheeto
I take it there was no 2ry (external) PRV on the system? Shocking if not!
found last friday, i think once there was a prv pipe before but no one knows what happened to it? 
The other thing is both pipes coming 15 mm to 22 mm service valve and again reduce to 15 mm. Is it because they were lazy to go merchants to buy 15 mm service valve?
The other thing is both pipes coming 15 mm to 22 mm service valve and again reduce to 15 mm. Is it because they were lazy to go merchants to buy 15 mm service valve?
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mcniven
I posted pics before, of a flue without a terminal! Well here inside lololol :/
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mcniven
arran, why u not just fit a blow off???
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Billy Bob Bob
death trap,whoever done that should be hung
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mcniven
gas man ... did u mean that ?? he died, like seriously 'lol'
i asked the people, who installed this, 'aw hes dead now'
................. awkward lol
i asked the people, who installed this, 'aw hes dead now'
................. awkward lol
Sorry? That was the blow off, but it had never been piped up.
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mcniven
thats what i meant arranzo, pipe it up! saves u AR it ?? just saying 😛
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Billy Bob Bob
they always seem to die when they dont want you to RIDDOR it
True!!! Funny that.
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Mike Jackson
It's either that or the customer can't remember who did the work. There's a lot of people out there with very poor memories.
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diamondgas
I put this one up the other month on a different thread but i think its worthy of being here ..... A custards attemt to keep his boiler alive! I think it one of those adjustable chair legs? It flexed the pcb and brought the boiler back to life but thankfuly the diverter was knackered too ----- 
Would have done, but I can only get 2m lengths of tube in my van at a push and don't use it very often. So I don't keep much on the van. I work for a company, not myself, so have a list of jobs to work through and this one was one of many that needed attending. Sometimes I get the feeling they just want to to go and have a look rather than fixing the problem, just to say we've been! Tbh, I have to rebook most jobs I go to that require much more than a room stat, I just don't have the space, nor the time to start doing the work. Usually a fitter goes out and does any pipework that's required and I go round looking at jobs and appliance breakdowns.
Vokera Linea, what a poor quality thing. Got loads of those on one of the contracts I do some work on, I think I have seen more expansion vessel faults on these than anything. How on earth did the customer discover that shoving a chair leg through the case solved the problem?
didnt get any piks but i went to a job today to change vessel and prv on an ariston he 24 mffi, boiler off the wall job, found internal flue not even connected! 1cm gap between the inner joint. phoned ariston and they said it was missing the reducing piece that doesn't come with the boiler on a vertical flue kit. You have to order it seperately. Fitted it and now all ok, flames sat on burner niceley aswell so no easy give aways that there was a flue fault. I know the local company who fitted it aswell. It took me nearly all day rather than the 2-3 hours it should have. Cant believe a gse would leave it like that.
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diamondgas
It wasn't just shoved through, he'd screwed it through so it had made its own thread in the plastic ... Amazing he didn't pop a fuse ........🙂
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Mike Jackson
I've given up being surprised at what so called competent people will do. As far as I'm concerned I just cover my backside now and make sure that I do everything by the book.
ridor came to mind seeing as it messed up my day big style. The company he was from (who i wont mention) have a reasonably good name in our area as well
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CMairiD
New way of sealing ECVs? Naughty, naughty, Grid boys.
A recently serviced boiler.
A recently serviced boiler.
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Kyle87
is that expanding foam in that valve???
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Mike Jackson
I'm hoping that it's a redundant pipe and that's their way of sealing off to prevent nuisance calls from lingering smells/
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CMairiD
Yes to expanding foam and yes to redundant.
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Mike Jackson
I suppose it will stop smells but not really an approved fitting. I guess the guy didn't have a black iron cap.
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scotty plumber
Good idea! They can just pass dinner plates through hole like olden days
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CMairiD
That looks like someone's hung a mirror with a Meringue!
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PlumbBobBob
thats a classic
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smileyplumber
heres why we to a flue flow test recon it must took crows years to build it up the chimney was block all 11 meters of it :-S
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REDSAW
looks more like beaver to me/?
sent it to gas safe , and i bet gas fire was serviced last year
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tamz
It would be Jackdaws. They return every year to the same place. They will build a nest 3ft deep in a week.
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