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What do you think of my work?

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22337d1437777560-what-do-you-think-my-work-image.jpgJust wondering what you lads think of my work.

I'm level 3 and just passed my OFTEC. Been plumbing since I was 22 I'm now 25.

Sorry image is on the squiff but the uploader on here messed it up!!

Thanks!

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Looks good,
Would of used machine bends on the gas and Flow/return going up the wall
And would of kept them 22mm and reduced down after the first T or upstairs
 
oh dear!
firstly put the dam pic right way up..
its a worcester 🙁
whats with the blow-off?
and the wiring, why not swing it closer?

neat though 😉
 
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Im not familiar with that boiler MI and havent looked at MI. But prv into condensate.
Leccy cable trailing gas pipe ??
Hard ro tell from a 2d photo.
Either way that leccy cable is bang-untidy
 
Not only the prv, gas supply too close to the cable passing through wall and that flex is just a joke.
 
Not only the prv, gas supply too close to the cable passing through wall and that flex is just a joke.

The flex is untidy but in all fairness to the OP it's what comes pre wired with the boiler, it does need wiring correctly though.
 
I can see you have put some effort and thought in to your pipe routes which is good, but as has been said you can't combine the prv and condense like that.
The flex to the fused spur is untidy and should be routed away from the gas pipe work. It looks like you have an open end on the gas pipe work to the cooker maybe you hadn't soldered a coupler in there yet.
I don't understand the drain off on the return at that height as won't drain downstairs radiators and Boiler can be drained from its own drain off. Also from a design point of view I think a couple more clips would have held the pipe work straighter on the return especially with the weight of the filter hanging off to one side.
Always try and line all your clips on different pipes up. And when you have a number of passovers to do over the same pipe either do all verticals over horizontal or all horizontal over vertical it looks a little odd when some pass behind and some in front of the same pipe right next to each other. Where does the condense and prv run to at present?

I know it might all seem like negative criticism but please take it as the valuable feedback that it is, and don't stop asking for it. It is hard to stand up and show your work so well done for putting it up. It may be harder to accept the criticism, but if you take on board what's been said you will get to the standard you obviously want to achieve much quicker. Sort the bits that are not to regulation and Keep up the hard work.
 
I think it takes balls to put a picture up on the forum. Good on ya for that. There's a lot of good advice given in how to improve things so take that on board. Stick around tho!
 
The install looks ok. I see a lot worse from experienced installers. There is a couple of things that could look a bit better but in general not too shabby.

Things like I would of ran the pipes down the wall in the order that they join the boiler so it would of gone return, gas, flow as this would cut down the amount of bends at the bottom.
Clipping the cable back to the wall.
Keeping all the clips the same level (not 1 on the gas at the bottom)
 
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Well a few MAJOR issues myself.

You didn't decorate walls behind boiler.

The cable clips are incorrectly spaced and way out of level
 
I think anyone willing to put there work up on here is very brave. Fair play to you mate and don't take the comments badly. Every day is a school day as they say and there are some seriously knowledgeable people on here
 
You'll not find many who will post pics cos of the ribbing, i'm sure even perfection will get If Would and Should...🙂
 
Internal fill loop would have meant less mess below boiler, Prv is wrong, cable untidy... Everything else looks okay.

I'm guessing a kitchen unit will go there so the drain off hidden forever?
 
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Now I know that everyone is saying the prv is wrong, but is that just because of the mi?. The reason I ask is that the new intergas coming out has a combined prv and condensate, so surely somewhere the building regs must allow this?
Just a question
 

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