Cooker hood/chimney outlet

[Deleted member 101614]

About 2 or 3 metres away from the flue pipe and further still from the entrance to the loft. It's a small loft and you can't accidentally knock the pipes that were joined together. You would have to decide to go to that part of the loft. It's got nothing to do with making up my mind.

 

[Deleted member 101614]

All I wanted to know was how long it would take, after those pipes were sealed together, for the condensation to start dripping through the cooker chimney. And someone told me it could take a day or two. So that's my answer.

 

[Riley]

Well not really an answer because you are looking to accuse someone with no proof. I maintain as per my previous comment that if the pipe had been left open ended you’d have smelt the drain smell long ago

 

[Riley]

I think we need pics

 

[Harvest Fields]

Well not really an answer because you are looking to accuse someone with no proof. I maintain as per my previous comment that if the pipe had been left open ended you’d have smelt the drain smell long ago

Mine pops off the ridge tile all the time. I never smell it.

 

[Last Plumber]

Is this 'Cooker chimney' a flexible pipe in the loft?
Like that you get from a tumble dryer?

 

[Last Plumber]

I think we need pics

I'm guessing if it's the flexible concertina pipe, it will have lay on the loft floor for yonks and filled with condensate from the cooker hood.
I have seen a few bathroom fan ducts with a good amount of water in over the years just because they have spent their lives lying across a loft.
There's my guess anyway with the little info I have read. What are your thoughts?

 

[Deleted member 101614]

Yes. It's a flexible concertina kind of pipe.

 

[Last Plumber]

Yes. It's a flexible concertina kind of pipe.

Then is my theory not likely to be what happened? As far as explaining the deluge?

 

[Last Plumber]

I suspect, as others have said, it has possibly been like that a while. I cannot see a Plumber or Heating Engineer taping those two ends together in all honesty.

 

[Deleted member 101614]

Last plumber - thank you for your theory. I'm not sure if you read my original post? The pipe from the cooker chimney was found taped, sealed to the pipe from the waste, so that each was feeding into the other.

 

[Riley]

Multiple post

 

[Riley]

Multiple post

 

[Last Plumber]

Yes I did read your OP. However, it is very difficult to imagine what you are looking at. I am picturing a concertina duct running across a loft and then being taped end to end onto the top of the soil and vent pipe.
I think this is why @Riley has mentioned photo's.

 

[Deleted member 101614]

Yes - that is what we found.

 

[Deleted member 101614]

But plumber no. 2 separated them and put them both to vent through the roof.

 

[Last Plumber]

But plumber no. 2 separated them and put them both to vent through the roof.

That does not mean that Plumber no 1 taped them together though does it?
He may not even have noticed them, or if he did, he probably just wondered why they were like that?

 

[Last Plumber]

Riley has already said this in post 16 I think.

 

[Harvest Fields]

Riley has already said this in post 16 I think.

And I think I said it before that? But I could be wrong.

 

[Deleted member 101614]

That depends. Can the two be taped together, with nothing happening?