HALL of SHAME PHOTo`s

[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 -----

 

[arran197]

thats what i meant arranzo, pipe it up! saves u AR it ?? just saying 😛

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.

 

[arran197]

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 ----- View attachment 5472View attachment 5473

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?

 

[southcoastboile]

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.

 

[diamondgas]

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?

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 ........🙂

 

[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.

 

[southcoastboile]

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

 

[CMairiD]

New way of sealing ECVs? Naughty, naughty, Grid boys.



A recently serviced boiler.

 

[Kyle87]

is that expanding foam in that valve???

 

[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/

 

[CMairiD]

Yes to expanding foam and yes to redundant.

 

[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.

 

[arran197]

Expanding foam can be used for everything, well according to the tenant in this property I had to go to! Ha ha!

 

[scotty plumber]

Good idea! They can just pass dinner plates through hole like olden days

 

[CMairiD]

That looks like someone's hung a mirror with a Meringue!

 

[PlumbBobBob]

thats a classic

 

[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

 

[REDSAW]

View attachment 5509View attachment 5510heres 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

looks more like beaver to me/?

 

[SafeGasInstall]

View attachment 5509View attachment 5510heres 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

sent it to gas safe , and i bet gas fire was serviced last year

 

[tamz]

View attachment 5509View attachment 5510heres 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

It would be Jackdaws. They return every year to the same place. They will build a nest 3ft deep in a week.