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flue liner.jpg hello mr flue liner !!

taken from bedroom cupboard
 
went to a burst pipe today , asked me to look at boiler as they thought it needed a service. found this when i asked woman of house who fitted it she replied brother in law 4 years ago. o right whats he do - "oo hes a proffesional plumber" o right is he gas safe or was he corgi . then i get that look through you look. lol
 

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went to a burst pipe today , asked me to look at boiler as they thought it needed a service. found this when i asked woman of house who fitted it she replied brother in law 4 years ago. o right whats he do - "oo hes a proffesional plumber" o right is he gas safe or was he corgi . then i get that look through you look. lol


There seems to be a lack of pipes there bod 🙂 As well as the flexi's and 15mm gas, where's the prv pipe?
 
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.

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I AR'd the boiler and drained some water off as it had gone up to 3 bar.
 
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 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? DSC_0115c.JPG

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?
 
gas man ... did u mean that ?? he died, like seriously 'lol'

i asked the people, who installed this, 'aw hes dead now'

................. awkward lol
 
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.
 
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 ----- Linea01.jpgLinea02.jpg
 
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.
 
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?
 
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.
 
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 ........🙂
 

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