Please start using appropriate fixings in walls, pass the word.

[Sharp Point]

Evening all, I have to post this and get it off my chest. Recently I seem to be doing a great deal of unvented hot water cylinders and working in higher end properties with them already installed. About 1 in 4 expansion vessels are inappropriately secured to the wall i.e... plasterboard fixings in plasterboard, 1.5" 8's screws in render/ plaster or 2" 10's in dot and dab. When the membrane finally fails and fills a 24 litre vessel with water the weight is nigh on a bag of cement and if it pulls out and connect via a flexi or 15mm pipe, there's going to be a flippin travesty......and yes I've seen the aftermath of a split flexi from a fallen vessel.

so come on people( you know who you are)use your noggin, either screw and glue a piece of 18mm ply on a plasterboard wall or into noggins/ uprights and secure into that and use 4"x 10's screws at least through dot and dab into masonry, so goes for into render/ brick.

keep smiling.

as a matter of fact it should be part of the benchmark.

 

[townfanjon]

Many years ago I worked for Kingspan , I have seen plenty come off the wall, any new unvented I go to now has a great lump ply glued and screwed to the wall.

A great improvement made by certain ex vessel manufacturers now has to be the bracket welded to the vessel , rather than the stainless jub clip .