Hi, I’m looking to retrain as a gas engineer and do a new entrants gas course.
I’m a bit concerned by the ‘on-job’ work experience/shadowing, as some course want to charge £1500 to pair you up with a qualified engineer. Some courses don’t offer pairing and suggest you find your own engineer to...
Hi everyone,
My customer has a gas fire (Gazco Logic HE fire, about 10 years old).
It's a slide control fire. The fire has become difficult to light. One has to push a lot more firmly down on the control slide to get it to light.
At which point, all is fine. The pilot is good, new battery...
I was sent an engineer by Ideal Heating to fix a problem with my system. When he left he drove over a pot of sealing compound (which must have dropped out of his van) on my shared drive. My neighbour pointed it out to me since he was parked in her space. I tried to remove it with water and...
I have decided to remove the timber floor boards and joists as they are effected by damp and rotting. Was hoping to infill and have slab and screed floor. There is a gas servile pipe under the floor which enters the property below the joists at the front of the house and comes up under the...
We have an old gas pipe in the understairs cupboard. The previous occupants had the gas meter moved, but this old pipe remained. This pipe goes behind the electrical CU which I'm due to have replaced soon.
We are looking to cut the old pipe out, but trying to working out what material it's...
Hi,
Non-professional / knowledgeable person here.
I'm a Brit in Romania who volunteers for a charity building an old peoples home for needy old people. Out here competence and integrity is harder to come by in a worker, in fact it's hard to find workers at all where we are in the countryside...
I'm looking at the above, hoping it will be a good all-purpose tool for repairing our 2 megawatt furnaces. I'm a bit unsure if I need any of the options on it, I don't want to overcomplicate things, but don't want to miss anything out
I want to use it for pressure testing and leak testing too...
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I recently upgraded our CH system, but rather than the expected drop in gas consumption, Octopus is saying we're using roughly 30% more! The installer has said they can downrate the boiler, but to my mind that addresses maximum consumption, not any inefficiencies there may be relating...
Hello, I have recently had a conservatory installed, covering the full length of the kitchen. I have just failed my gas safety inspection due to lack of ventilation. I have a ventless extractor fan, thinking that would do that job… but apparently not. Is there any other solutions to it? and why...
Had conventional boiler and tanks removed last year and new combi fitted and just recently had it serviced but the guy who did it has given me a gas warning notice for at risk as the outside wall meter box has been drilled through for the gas pipe to go horizontal straight to the boiler. The...
My Zanussi gas oven has 4 gas rings and 2 gas ovens (the smaller top oven has a grill). (Model ZCG664GNC). There are 6 gas knobs (gas taps you might say) on the front panel, and one of these has a double function (turn it left and it operates the smaller oven, turn it right and it operates the...
Why am I not surprised?
Britain’s gas network still using engines from 1960s RAF fighter jets
Ageing aircraft turbines will cost millions to replace, says National Gas chief
Jonathan Leake14 January 2024 • 5:49pm
Mr Butterworth, chief executive of National Gas, says the network is powered by...
Am I the only one struggling to find appliances' manuals online? I know it's hard enough with cookers and old gas fires but I've just been unable to find the manual for an Ideal Exclusive. I thought I had found it but it turns out the GC number was different.
Given the law says "refer to MI"...
Full disclosure, I am an Electrician.
One of my older clients has just had her fire capped off because it doesn't comply with today's regs and was told the regs are now retrospectively applied.
This is the opposite of what I am used to. For example, if I do an electrical inspection and find a...
Hi everyone,
What does the summer/winter dial do on a tank less gas geyser? Should you adjust it or leave it on one mode or adjust it according to seasons?
Any info would be great thanks.
Hi All, what's the cost of a service for an unvented system ? (valiant boiler & mega flow cylinder).
I was charged £320.00, for the following:
Boiler service - no parts changed.
Change wireless thermostat (honeywell to Tado), I supplied the thermostat starter kit.
is that about correct ?
Also...
My 2yr old grand-daughter decided to post her Christmas Card through the gap at the top of the fire
I cannot see any screws to release the cover enough to retrieve this card
Loathe to use the fire incase the Card/envelope with catch fire
Any help locating the cover release screws
Just an update to anyone who was following the thread on this site: Tify to gas engineer, what will it take?
I got a DM from a user asking for an update, he like myself was gobsmaked at the level of abuse I got from asking a basic question.
Thanks Tom for the DM, I managed to pass in 2019...
I am troubleshooting a gas hob where one burner is reluctant to light. When it is lit and I blow the flame out the FSD on that burner cuts off immediately, whereas the others take 5-10 seconds as normal. I have tested the thermoucouple for continuity and also some sort of mV output (when held...
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I am looking to gain practical experience with a certified gas engineer.
I was in search of an engineer to work with accompanying them to jobs. I would be happy to observe and support where possible.
I am now working towards completing and submitting my portfolio.
I understand that this...