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    Flue too close to the window, gas safe not interested.

    I went out to do a landlord safety check to day on an 8 year old property. There is a valiant ecotec 831 plus in the kitchen with only 220mm to the openable window. There is a row of three of these houses all with the same flue too close to the kitchen window. All have passed every inspection up...
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    Very poor flow rate and pressure on the incoming main

    Hello I ve been to look at a job for a builder i work for. They are converting the back end of a garage into a bathroom. At the moment there is two 50 gallon CWS tanks linked together on the floor in the garage with a submersible pump in it pumping the cold water up to the CWS in the loft. It...
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    open flue fire landlord inspection

    I did a landlord inspection on an open flue gas fire on saturday. Its about 20 years old, never failed an annual inspection before. Passed flue flow and spillage no problem. When i checked in the loft i found the selkirk 5" flue came out the precast about a foot with about a 15 degree rise from...
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    Anyone else had trouble with Intergas Customer Service?

    I ordered two 18w HRE Open vented boilers Tuesday 25th Aug through my local independent merchants who ordered them direct from Intergas. They were supposed to arrive on the Friday, but didn't. This was put down to a missed fax between the two. So they promised delivery Tuesday/Wednesday, by...
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    Underfloor heating in screed

    I ve just run all of the underfloor heating circuits in a barn conversion for a customer. It's a polyplumb solid staple onto cellotex before screed system. The owner has now come back to me and said they are building a fireplace in the lounge and don't want any pipes underneath it. I was told...
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    Joyou leaflet in gas safe mag

    Has anybody ordered anything from them at all? Just wondered what the quality of it's like?
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    What's this in the heating system?

    Has anyone come across this before? There is loads of it in this system I ve gone to look at.
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    Worcester 30cdi green star

    I went to a 6 year old 30 cdi this morning where the customer was saying the hot water worked fine but the heating didn't. I turned on the heating and the boiler fired fine but the temperature just rose then shut off. No heat was going down the flow. So I pulled off the diverter motor with the...
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    Ideal vogue price increase

    Has anyone else who s fitting vogue s been told they re going up in price? i ve just priced a 32kw vogue and my merchant said it s gone up by about £90 before vat because of the 10 year warranty. Hopefully this isn't true as they were well priced.
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    Bit of a strange water quality problem

    Evening all, I ve had a strange call from a new customer today. He says the cold water from the bath tap, bathroom basin and shower is coming out black. Also has a slimy texture. He also says the toilet cistern is full of black water. He s checked the cold water storage tank and says it's clean...
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    Private water supply

    I ve been to see a customer today who has a well supply private water supply. It's pumped from a field about 250 yds from the house. The 25mm blue mdpe pipe is literally run along the top of a boundary fence, through the woods, and down the hill to the house. Obviously it freezes during the...
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    Intergas 28kw combi

    I know a lot of you fit these, personally I ve never come across one. I ve just been beaten by quite a bit on a quote where I ve priced for a Worcester 30si compact, as requested by the customer. The following engineer refused to price anything but an intergas. I ve got a feeling these will be...
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    LPG cylinder siting.

    I'm pricing up a job now for a LPG combi in a wooden lodge in someone's garden. The lodge is just in the middle of a large garden with nothing else around it. What I'm wondering is what is going to be the best and most appropriate site for the cylinders. What I'm hoping to do is stand them...
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