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Ermintrude
Osb is gr8 lasts about 20seconds and carry 2kg he's a pro it's probably braced up properly! 2x1 at 1200 cts right?
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i went back to the property last week so thought I would share the other side of the door! Not sure what's gone on but I'm pretty sure the free air space is covered.
Yes, but are there any vent to outside?
Nope, I think the original ones had no measurements on so they have been replaced. There were a couple of the old metallic vent covers in the cupboard. Just on a side note I am fully qualified and am well aware that the lack of ventilation or someone altering a boiler case is not appropriate! No need to question everything, ha.
Looks like they fitted that boiler in the old larder hence the vents ...lol regards Turnpin:8:
Theres an estate of these here in MK good old "Tinkers bridge" houses on that estate were meant as temporary, housing workers constructing Milton Keynes and London council estate overflow. Guess what they never took them down and there still here in all there painted breeze block glory. Now to make them stand half a chance of holding some heat they are all getting the external insulation and render treatment. Guess how many have the flues boxed in like the picture. Thats right all of them.
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Alex Knight
Laughable!
Haha surely he could have rotated the backplate and gone in the bottom?
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PlumbBobBob
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Barry98
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lame plumber
haha, good one. Looks like Mac Giver was there ( Intro Mac Gyver - YouTube )
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basildog
Then they all go on how they are GAS SAFE ?
The world is a mad place where people pay money to be associated with the likes of this ?
What time will the world stop I want to get off please ?
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Barry98
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basildog
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Rickster123
Only if you fill out the benchmark, so you're fine mate calm down!
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basildog
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Barry98
not worth the paper there wrote on , so don't waste your time
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Rickster123
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Barry98
suprima 70 he, replaced fan last year. another fan gone, found leak in the boiler. checked flue terminal and found this. sorry for sun on the flue, couldnt get better shot.
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Kyle87
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TomLane
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Dotty
Fight me own battles....... As you'll discover when you learn what I done to you!
hehehehehehehehehehehehehe.........
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PlumbBobBob
perhaps they didn't like the look of the down pipe and flue so let the ivy grow up to hide it.
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Resolute
maybe im being slow here but other than the electric cable against the pipe whats wrong
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Kyle87
That type of wall plate elbow is a water fitting and not tapered like a gas fitting if say
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Kyle87
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Koogatubac
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Mike Jackson
Okay had a call to a leak on a new installation last week. Repaired the leak but went back today to rectify the rest of the faults.
The job was a basin sat on a cupboard.
IMG_0107 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr
When I say sat on, I mean sat on the basin had been placed on top of a piece of anti slip matting to hold it in place. Look at the amazing standard of workmanship where the waste hole is cut into the top. I may as well chuck my hole saws out.
IMG_0109 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr
The waste was an amazing piece of work.
IMG_0101 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr
When I took the waste pipe apart to run it properly I discovered how to join incompatible pipe sizes. I wish I'd known about this years ago, I could have saved a fortune on multifit connectors.
IMG_0110 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr
This was the joint that was leaking. I had to open out the hole with the multimaster to get the armeg jawdropper on the bottom nut of the compression fitting. It really screams professionalism when someone uses a compression fitting when an endfeed one would be so much more appropriate.
IMG_0106 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr
And a last view just showing the quality of the install.
IMG_0102 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr
The customer has cancelled one cheque made out to the original "plumber" and is writing requesting he refund the cost of my remedial works.
The job was a basin sat on a cupboard.
IMG_0107 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr
When I say sat on, I mean sat on the basin had been placed on top of a piece of anti slip matting to hold it in place. Look at the amazing standard of workmanship where the waste hole is cut into the top. I may as well chuck my hole saws out.
IMG_0109 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr
The waste was an amazing piece of work.
IMG_0101 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr
When I took the waste pipe apart to run it properly I discovered how to join incompatible pipe sizes. I wish I'd known about this years ago, I could have saved a fortune on multifit connectors.
IMG_0110 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr
This was the joint that was leaking. I had to open out the hole with the multimaster to get the armeg jawdropper on the bottom nut of the compression fitting. It really screams professionalism when someone uses a compression fitting when an endfeed one would be so much more appropriate.
IMG_0106 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr
And a last view just showing the quality of the install.
IMG_0102 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr
The customer has cancelled one cheque made out to the original "plumber" and is writing requesting he refund the cost of my remedial works.
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Ray Stafford
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Bunker
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lame plumber
A toilet waste?!! Isn't all that silicone likely to cause a blockage of the most undesirable kind?
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Toxic Ted
Okay had a call to a leak on a new installation last week. Repaired the leak but went back today to rectify the rest of the faults.
The job was a basin sat on a cupboard.
IMG_0107 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr
When I say sat on, I mean sat on the basin had been placed on top of a piece of anti slip matting to hold it in place. Look at the amazing standard of workmanship where the waste hole is cut into the top. I may as well chuck my hole saws out.
IMG_0109 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr
The waste was an amazing piece of work.
IMG_0101 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr
When I took the waste pipe apart to run it properly I discovered how to join incompatible pipe sizes. I wish I'd known about this years ago, I could have saved a fortune on multifit connectors.
IMG_0110 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr
This was the joint that was leaking. I had to open out the hole with the multimaster to get the armeg jawdropper on the bottom nut of the compression fitting. It really screams professionalism when someone uses a compression fitting when an endfeed one would be so much more appropriate.
IMG_0106 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr
And a last view just showing the quality of the install.
IMG_0102 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr
The customer has cancelled one cheque made out to the original "plumber" and is writing requesting he refund the cost of my remedial works.
A monkey with a hammer would have made a better job....
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Kyle87
I was taught at college (I do question the tutors credibility to be fair) that gas female irons were tapered so if you screwed male in there would be a point of absolute closure
Whereas water female irons are parallel and the fitting does not taper inward.
He also said gas wing back fitting don't angle out from a wall they generally stay flush.
I stand humbly to be corrected I only know what I've been taught!!
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Kev the gas
I have had 2 x local plumbers send me the same pic.
One of them initially put my name forward to price the job, an old floor standing Rs boiler on gravity with a split coil in the cylinder.
Rather than do a full convert to fully pumped the chosen installer has just put a pump on the returns and told the old girl to turn off the rads when she does'nt want them on :smug2:.
He did raise the expansion tank tho, which he thought might help the split coil in the cylinder !!!!!
Sorry cant make out the model of the new boiler but can it be fitted under a work top ??
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Ermintrude
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Kev the gas
Raxi Solo !!
Ah the old he plus !
Yes to my own question it only needs 50 mm clearance at the bottom, fun emptying the condense drain then !
Next question What news paper was it ???
Ah the old he plus !
Yes to my own question it only needs 50 mm clearance at the bottom, fun emptying the condense drain then !
Next question What news paper was it ???
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Ermintrude
is the bit of aluminium a heat shield for when the paper gets going.?
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Billy Bob Bob
I know it will never light, inner flue only 55 degrees.
..... Was meant to be humour! Oh well.
Reminds me of the flue I came across when replacing an expansion vessel had to break the plaster around the flue only to find the huge void and cavity stuffed with T shirts.
What?
When I get cylinder changes, thats what the airing cupboard looks like
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Mike Jackson
Found this pic from a few years back. Warmfront job, boiler had been turned off due to low inlet working gas pressure. Warmsure had said that pipework was undersized as it was mainly 15mm to a 24Kw isar. I turned up to repipe and found the meter less than 6 foot from the boiler with about 4 ft of 15mm. I could see why the original installer hadn't upgraded it as it disappeared behind the unit and re appeared through the worktop. A repipe would have entailed destroying the unit. I turned back on and tested, pipework was gas tight, 21 working at meter, 8 at boiler (which was surprisingly working). Obviously some sort of blockage and my eye was drawn to a new compression fitting where the new pipework from the meter was connected to the old pipework running through the cupboard.
I took the fitting apart and found
bhw2646 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr
A good illustration of why, if pasting joints, you should take the nut and olive off and paste it on the pipe rather than wiping paste in the joint.
Funny how the original installer had signed the boiler off with an inlet working pressure of 20 mbar. The paste must have got into the joint on it's own. I was also ticked off that the old lady had been left with no heating or hot water when it took me 5 minutes to rectify. It wouldn't have hurt the warmsure engineer to spend 5 minutes looking for a blockage rather than doing the usual TOFO.
I took the fitting apart and found
bhw2646 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr
A good illustration of why, if pasting joints, you should take the nut and olive off and paste it on the pipe rather than wiping paste in the joint.
Funny how the original installer had signed the boiler off with an inlet working pressure of 20 mbar. The paste must have got into the joint on it's own. I was also ticked off that the old lady had been left with no heating or hot water when it took me 5 minutes to rectify. It wouldn't have hurt the warmsure engineer to spend 5 minutes looking for a blockage rather than doing the usual TOFO.
Hmm...where could the cylinder be?
Where did all that maggoty looking stuff come from, is it the type of thing you pack boxes with?
I thought it was a new fangled way of protecting the floor, dust sheet replacement if you will.
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Koogatubac
Keefy - lol ur dead right! Polyester wrappings. Used long time ago to hold in heat. It did aswell, was like a sauna when i took the cupboard apart. Just rub salt in wounds, they have JUST had new bathroom fitted inc new tiles. All the cupboard was tiled to, extremely tight! Was so suprised i didnt smash either basin, toilet or any of the tiles!! Lol
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Koogatubac
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