Condensate pipe to thin air

[Backboiler]

If you come across the condensate terminating vertically down to fresh air, do you guys classify it as NCS?

 

[quality]

I would say NCS but would quote to rectify

 

[Leo21]

Guess it was the cheapest quote then. Things like that make my blood boil!

 

[SafeGasInstall]

not sure about that leo21

 

[Puddle]

On a bad day

I would say 'id' as obviously the boiler has been installed illegally by a unregistered,incompetent person,if they can not terminate a bit of condensate correctly(which by the way is part of the flue system,therefore in theory the flue is not terminated correctly)how they expected to carry out the gas side !!

on a good day

NTCS

I have mostly bad days though

:32:

imho

 

[Leo21]

Suppose it is an assumption, but haven't you been back to or seen jobs you've quoted for and seen why it was cheaper. Things like above or incorrect gas sizing etc.

 

[P4ULT]

Suppose it is an assumption, but haven't you been back to or seen jobs you've quoted for and seen why it was cheaper. Things like above or incorrect gas sizing etc.

Yep many times and it pees me off big time.

 

[REDSAW]

ncs, as elvis has left the building and not a risk to life

 

[armourer]

I'm a bit confused about this.
By "terminating vertically" do you mean it terminates straight up or straight down?
And where does it go?

As for everyone trying to classify it under gas regs, All the boilers I know have an internal trap(built in to the boiler) which stops flue gases escaping down the condensate.

So is condensate termination even covered by gas regs to give it an ID, AR, Ntcs ?

 

[SimonJohns]

I'm a bit confused about this.
By "terminating vertically" do you mean it terminates straight up or straight down?
And where does it go?

As for everyone trying to classify it under gas regs, All the boilers I know have an internal trap(built in to the boiler) which stops flue gases escaping down the condensate.

So is condensate termination even covered by gas regs to give it an ID, AR, Ntcs ?

I thought that too. But an icos doesn't have a trap. Must be others. I think the c55 hasn't either.

 

[dancinplumba]

I thought that too. But an icos doesn't have a trap. Must be others. I think the c55 hasn't either.

icos is same as isar, they have a trap but its less than 75mm

 

[GrahamM]

I'm a bit confused about this.
By "terminating vertically" do you mean it terminates straight up or straight down?
And where does it go?

As for everyone trying to classify it under gas regs, All the boilers I know have an internal trap(built in to the boiler) which stops flue gases escaping down the condensate.

So is condensate termination even covered by gas regs to give it an ID, AR, Ntcs ?

It is effectually part of the flue system. So it does come under regs in some respect.
If it is cut off outside it is not fitted to standard so NCS.

There is a bit of a grey area on condensate classification though.
Recently I was advised by Worcester that the Greenstar I was at was NCS as 75mm trap in place and the condi terminates above an open drain bellow sink in a basement. With no trap would be ID.

 

[Backboiler]

I'm a bit confused about this.
By "terminating vertically" do you mean it terminates straight up or straight down?
And where does it go?

As for everyone trying to classify it under gas regs, All the boilers I know have an internal trap(built in to the boiler) which stops flue gases escaping down the condensate.

So is condensate termination even covered by gas regs to give it an ID, AR, Ntcs ?

Ok the condensate pipe ran vertically down from the trap, passed through the wall horizontally, then vertically down to approx 300mm above a paving slab. The condensate was and it appears has been collected in a bowl for a year. Hope they wasn't giving it the dog to drink!

 

[quality]

Must have been a big bowl or a big dog for a years worth of condensate

Or a cold house

 

[rawr]

I got told that awhile back that an install me and another fellow did got classified NCS because the condensate ran to the ground (outside) then terminated level with the ground..... It was buried and ran into a soak away -_- trololol