Condensate pipe a few questions

[Harvest Fields]

Don't need to be gas safe to do the heating side

But the condense if linked to the flue. Where does t say this mate as I have never heard this ever before.

 

[Last Plumber]

So basically your saying that because the boiler is trapped. Then anyone can do whatever they want to the condense pipe outside? Surely if it is connected to the boiler it is part of the install and they should be gas safe registered?

I would tend to agree with that.

A blockage in the condensate trap could and most likely will eventually effect combustion.
A Boiler with a dry trap will allow products of combustion to stream from the condensate pipe.
The water from these is acidic and can easily eat its way through building materials.
There are other examples of why one would need to be Gas safe registered and competent in my opinion.

 

[Last Plumber]

I have seen an oversized Boiler run its trap dry recently and allow POC to flow from the condensate pipe right outside an incoming air vent in a Laundry.

 

[Last Plumber]

To my mind the condensate drain on a condensing Boiler is an integral part of the combustion side.

 

[Harvest Fields]

I would tend to agree with that.

A blockage in the condensate trap could and most likely will eventually effect combustion.
A Boiler with a dry trap will allow products of combustion to stream from the condensate pipe.
The water from these is acidic and can easily eat its way through building materials.
There are other examples of why one would need to be Gas safe registered and competent in my opinion.

This is my whole point. We spend hours upon hours on here telling people to get gas safe engineers in for condense work.

 

[Harvest Fields]

To my mind the condensate drain on a condensing Boiler is an integral part of the combustion side.

If it is in the manufacturers instructions it is part of the boiler.

 

[Last Plumber]

This is my whole point. We spend hours upon hours on here telling people to get gas safe engineers in for condense work.

Yes and rightly so in my view Harvest.

 

[Last Plumber]

If it is in the manufacturers instructions it is part of the boiler.

It is an integral section like I say. All part n parcel of the installation of the Gas appliance.