Called out to 'service' a boiler at a pub out in the sticks. They'd had a company in this week to pump out their old steel tank that had sprung a leak.
Gets there and starts it up and it coughs splutters and smokes. Off it goes, it's an old Trianco TRO the label on the front says 25/02/1977.
Lifts the cover off the top and there's soot everywhere, the glass sight hole isn't there and there's only two wing nuts holding down the baffle cover. I pull out what's left of the baffles and get covered in soot. I scrape all the soot into the bottom and prepare to take the plate off holding the burner to vac all the crap out. I pull the plate out and there's a couple of drips of water, maybe a bit of condensation I thought, pull out the stone block and whoosh, out comes the water. The bloody thing has burst inside.
New boiler time.
Wish I'd pulled the bottom plate off first though, would have saved me getting hacky black and twenty minutes.
So in the space of 3 days the cust has had the oil tank and boiler go. She didn't seem amused when I said she'd better not put the lottery on with luck like that 🙂
Gets there and starts it up and it coughs splutters and smokes. Off it goes, it's an old Trianco TRO the label on the front says 25/02/1977.
Lifts the cover off the top and there's soot everywhere, the glass sight hole isn't there and there's only two wing nuts holding down the baffle cover. I pull out what's left of the baffles and get covered in soot. I scrape all the soot into the bottom and prepare to take the plate off holding the burner to vac all the crap out. I pull the plate out and there's a couple of drips of water, maybe a bit of condensation I thought, pull out the stone block and whoosh, out comes the water. The bloody thing has burst inside.
New boiler time.
Wish I'd pulled the bottom plate off first though, would have saved me getting hacky black and twenty minutes.
So in the space of 3 days the cust has had the oil tank and boiler go. She didn't seem amused when I said she'd better not put the lottery on with luck like that 🙂
