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king of pipes

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I have a insurance job to try and rescue a poorly installed quad shower the customer wants to save the tiling if possible and has a few spare so fingers crossed it may work , the loss adjuster allowed em £1500 that will just about cover materials. Kop
 

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Bet you wouldn't of left this one 9 years with out a strip down just a FGA and safety check ?? This afternoons entertainment and to top it all it wouldn't stay lit once cleaned out 🤣 a new set of electrodes sorted it . Kop
Did you change the pins as well?
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NIce one, really reasonable price too, have just ordered one for just shy of £16 delivered.
Where from?
 
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Pins mate not sure what you mean ? Both electrodes got changed spark and flame sensing, cheers Kop
Earth pins mate. Holding the insulation in place. After 9 years would be surprised if they weren’t down to little stubs.
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Yes mate it does the job ideal for washing out heat exchangers and sumps the end unscrews and pulls off leaving a 8mm pipe which is really handy for tight spots . Cheers kop
What litre is yours mate?
 
From the Eurocarparts ebay shop, £19.99 wit free p&p and it had a 20% off when you use POCKET20 discount code on the checkout page.

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Yep thats the one mate makes servicing that bit easier and more controllable
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Earth pins mate. Holding the insulation in place. After 9 years would be surprised if they weren’t down to little stubs.
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What litre is yours mate?
No mate they were in a state bud cleaned up fine , electrodes were a bit bent tried cleaning them bud and straightening em but i changed them in the end they needed doing in all honesty the new spark electrode is different shape now.

My power washer is the 8 litre one H not super powerful but ideal for these jobs and controllable no need to use the customers water .
 

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Newcastle mate. Grandads 80th.

I was going to say Newcastle, but didn’t want to look a tit and it be like London 😂
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self employment bud is where you should be aiming , i worked for companies for 30 + years making others wealthy before i took the plunge its now 9 years and haven't looked back always busy and my own boss jobs get done right,

Where did you find best for experience mate?
 
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I was going to say Newcastle, but didn’t want to look a tit and it be like London 😂
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Where did you find best for experience mate?
You just pick it up mate as you go along I did a few manufacturers courses you just get to know the faults on certain boilers, it's often a process of elimination the flow charts in the manual along with the fault codes , it's worth learning how to use a multimeter property aswell , you tube is also useful if you're struggling and as a learning aid . Regards Kop
 
First fix for this later in the week, plus a home made towel warmer.
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Look at the joists on that 🤣
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Look at the joists on that 🤣
 

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I’m chilling here this weekend. Lovely weather this morning.

Geordie land, The Toon...... lived there for 30 yrs 😀
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First fix for this later in the week, plus a home made towel warmer.
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Coal fired?

Look at the joists on that 🤣
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12" or more Simon?
 
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About 10", benefit of working in an old house 👍

Real mismatch though. 2 houses knocked through into one. 1 side running an old oil heatslave and the other a wood burner running 4 rads.
Taking the wood burner out of service and bringing 2 22mm copper pipes from combi side to run the 4 rads.
 
Does the filling loop bolt straight onto the sprayer handle or is there a fitting/fittings you use?
No mate remove the standard Lance what these come with the attach a piece of clear polythene tube with a jubilee clip , the connection to the filling loop or rad is a short length of 15 mm pipe warm the ploythene tube insert the tube again fit a jubilee clip then adapt to suit your application. Cheers kop 😉
 
No mate remove the standard Lance what these come with the attach a piece of clear polythene tube with a jubilee clip , the connection to the filling loop or rad is a short length of 15 mm pipe warm the ploythene tube insert the tube again fit a jubilee clip then adapt to suit your application. Cheers kop 😉

Thanks, that should save some time on some jobs. Will have a riffle through of my boxes of tubing from my fish keeping days at the weekend, should have something in there that would be do the trick.
 
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A bathroom modification for a elderly gent with a dodgy ticker, believe it or not I installed this 17 years ago when it was first built , I can't believe it was so long ago removed the bath, tiling ect and found loose plasterwork and cement render which had to come off revealing a couple of nasty cracks. These were ground out the whole wall sealed with SBR and repaired with Fisher resin the area was then dot and dabbed with new plasterboard , formed a new boxing to house the first fix shower pipework again plasterboarded ready to fit Multipanel later on , now have a 5 day break so till later chaps 😁😁. Kop
 

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