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Just been to price up a full bathroom refit, customer didn't know what she wanted so talked through a few options. Measure up, job sorted last thing "can i see your airing cupboard". It's an over 55 flat complex, 7 groups of 8 flats. No gas all storage heaters, so opens airing cupboard door hoping for direct unvented cylinder, bingo, Range Tribune HE.
Hello, thats not right. Was fitted two years ago by two 'plumbers', and I use that term loosely, very loosely. 210 litre unit for single bathroom flat, 15mm hot feed at back of cupboard, speedfit 15/22 reducer into 22 speedfit st connector, 22 speedfit elbow, 22 speedfit elbow and straight onto top of cylinder. Looks pants but the jobs done. Anyway top floor flat, cold mains come into airing cupboard from above alkathene to copper connector and 15 stop tap, then pressure reducer before pipe disappears to back of cupboard, tees to kitchen and tees under floor to serve bathroom. Then we have speedfit 15/22 reducer into 22 speedfit elbow, speedfit pipe from back of cupboard with 22 speedfit tee (we'll come back to that) then into combined pressure reducing/pressure relief with flexi upto expansion vessel fastened to ceiling. Cold then drops to cold feed into cylinder (no clips anywhere or on anything). Now the balanced cold comes out in a touch of 22 copper, well just enough to get a speedfit elbow on and then runs back to tee in cold feed prior to reducing/relief unit?
Now we come to d1 pipework, all in 15mm speedfit, cold water prv runs up to tee into cylinder temp/prv pipe and then down to tundish again all in 15mm speedfit.
All this after being told that they will need copies of my public liability and G3 if I have to touch the cylinder. As everybody who works on the flats as to be qualified and insured.
Pointed out the issues and left.
Happy days.
Just been to price up a full bathroom refit, customer didn't know what she wanted so talked through a few options. Measure up, job sorted last thing "can i see your airing cupboard". It's an over 55 flat complex, 7 groups of 8 flats. No gas all storage heaters, so opens airing cupboard door hoping for direct unvented cylinder, bingo, Range Tribune HE.
Hello, thats not right. Was fitted two years ago by two 'plumbers', and I use that term loosely, very loosely. 210 litre unit for single bathroom flat, 15mm hot feed at back of cupboard, speedfit 15/22 reducer into 22 speedfit st connector, 22 speedfit elbow, 22 speedfit elbow and straight onto top of cylinder. Looks pants but the jobs done. Anyway top floor flat, cold mains come into airing cupboard from above alkathene to copper connector and 15 stop tap, then pressure reducer before pipe disappears to back of cupboard, tees to kitchen and tees under floor to serve bathroom. Then we have speedfit 15/22 reducer into 22 speedfit elbow, speedfit pipe from back of cupboard with 22 speedfit tee (we'll come back to that) then into combined pressure reducing/pressure relief with flexi upto expansion vessel fastened to ceiling. Cold then drops to cold feed into cylinder (no clips anywhere or on anything). Now the balanced cold comes out in a touch of 22 copper, well just enough to get a speedfit elbow on and then runs back to tee in cold feed prior to reducing/relief unit?
Now we come to d1 pipework, all in 15mm speedfit, cold water prv runs up to tee into cylinder temp/prv pipe and then down to tundish again all in 15mm speedfit.
All this after being told that they will need copies of my public liability and G3 if I have to touch the cylinder. As everybody who works on the flats as to be qualified and insured.
Pointed out the issues and left.
Happy days.
