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Keefy said:
I remember my dad fitting our maroon acrylic bathroom suite in the 80's, it even had a cool colour-matching acrylic shelf with mirrored sliding door compartments mounted along the top. My mates were well jealous.
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That would have been damask. A very popular well posh colour :lol:
 
tamz said:
That would have been damask. A very popular well posh colour :lol:
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Nah, if you were really posh you had carpet and matching toilet seat covers.
 
Keefy said:
I remember my dad fitting our maroon acrylic bathroom suite in the 80's, it even had a cool colour-matching acrylic shelf with mirrored sliding door compartments mounted along the top. My mates were well jealous.
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I remember fitting those maroon ones with my dad. When we used to go for dinner he'd always put the levels on the van so the cust couldn't check it while we were gone. Good old days.
 
When younger we had a coffe type brown suite, which showed up every toothpaste mark or anything that wasnt brown..
 
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spark asks me how i fit my baths ? i told him i either batten the walls or i stick them on using pink grip, few weeks later he asks me to fix a job of his apparently his shower tray is moving hahaha, i was glad they still had a few floor tiles left, did have to buy the18mm ply an cement/board adhesive, maybe it all got used up the 1st time he fitted it :dozey:
 
Mike Jackson said:
Enough of the nice stuff, back to the dodgy pics. On a small caravan site doing some remedial works after they had some new water heaters fitted and annual gas safety checks done by a local firm. A firm I sub to got called in to look at a faulty regulator and noticed that the wrong flue had been fitted to one of the vans. The old flue had been the vented type and the new flue was a standard one. The owners contacted the original firm and they said that there was nothing wrong and refused to come back. Gas Safe were contacted and came and did an inspection and highlighted faults to all three installations, mainly ventilation issues because the new heaters were 10 litre models instead of the 6 litre ones taken out.

Gas Safe wanted the original firm to come back in to carry out the work but the owner wasn't happy with that so I've ended up there to rectify the known faults and check the rest of the gas appliances.

I decided to tackle the worst van first. I did the flue to the water heater and then proceeded to carry out the annual inspection. I rectified a gas leak and then moved inside. I took the fire out to inspect the catchment space and found this.


RIMG0012 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr

It looks a bit rusty around the relief ventilation opening.

Removing the closure plate revealed.


RIMG0015 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr


RIMG0017 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr

I'm fairly certain that the fire wasn't removed to check the space last year, that has certainly not just happened.

Checking the ventilation to the van I found.


RIMG0022 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr

This was in the small bedroom and, again, looks like it has been there a lot more than a year.

Just got the other two to sort out tomorrow.
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An update on the other two vans. First one I tackled didn't look too bad and ventilation looked like it may be okay. A further check on ventilation revealed that high level in the water heater compartment was fine but low level was half the requirement (funnily enough dead right if a 6l water heater had been in there as it was originally). I cut another vent in the floor and proceeded to test. Checked the rest of the vents first and most were half blocked with cobwebs, a lot more than you'd expect from a year, so probably not checked last year when the ticket was done. Lit the fire next and nearly took my eyebrows off. The air ports on the pilot were completely blocked and when it finally lit in the whoosh of flame coming from the main burner it looked like a candle flame. After cleaning this out and the soot off the burner the fire looked fine. Then went to check the water heater, fired it up on it's own and it was fine, light the fire and it spilled like mad. Crack the door open a wee bit and it was fine so cut another vent in at low level and that was fine as well.

Onto the third van. This one had sufficient low level ventilation in the water heater compartment but nowhere near enough at high level. Easiest option on this was to put a ventilated flue on. When I took the old flue off I found this.


RIMG0004-1 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr


RIMG0007 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr


RIMG0008 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr

I don't know whether they cut the flue short or used offcuts to make up a third flue but definitely not an approved method of jointing flues whatever the reason.

When I finished the vans they asked me if I could test the boiler in the office and the snack shack. I did the office one but said that I couldn't do the snack shack as I didn't have COMCAT. Apparently the same cowboys that did the work on the vans issued a ticket for the snack shack and they don't have COMCAT either. I'll await the doo doo hitting the fan over that one later. I'd lay money on the install not complying.
 
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Had these on my pc for a while, A very dodgy boiler install I came across during a LGSI.
Flow and return in 22mm copper down to 15mm hep2o and a quality flue installation (yes that is daylight and its going through a void as well).
Dont know how long it was in for or who done it but no paperwork left.
 
DSCF0444.jpgDo you think it was going to be a Low Loss Header & then someone changed there minds???. 3rd connection down on the lefthand side of boiler is the primaries to the cylinders. Wheres the zone valve (only one) ? ,behind the 1st cylinder but where the pump ?? Yes that it on the return going back into the boiler !!!!!! nice one.
 
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View attachment 11921Do you think it was going to be a Low Loss Header & then someone changed there minds???. 3rd connection down on the lefthand side of boiler is the primaries to the cylinders. Wheres the zone valve (only one) ? ,behind the 1st cylinder but where the pump ?? Yes that it on the return going back into the boiler !!!!!! nice one.
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Someone spent a lot of money on that just a pity there plumber just didn't quite know what he was doing
 
I'm shocked and appalled at what Mike Jackson has had to rectify in his last few posts here. I'm beginning to think Gas Safe should be doing more and come down mega hard on these chancers, I mean what's the worst that's gong to happen to these fools? Slap on the wrist and a few future jobs scrutinised then given the green light to carry on as they were? Not kidding when I say I'm shocked and appalled at this.
 
chris watkins said:
View attachment 11921Do you think it was going to be a Low Loss Header & then someone changed there minds???. 3rd connection down on the lefthand side of boiler is the primaries to the cylinders. Wheres the zone valve (only one) ? ,behind the 1st cylinder but where the pump ?? Yes that it on the return going back into the boiler !!!!!! nice one.
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Chris ,
what are the two pumps feeding to the left ? What is under the boiler rhs a secondery hot water pump ? What's the pump doing on the return to the boiler for and is there no expansion vessels fitted ?? I know is not your work just interest to find out the job specification .
also is both cylinders of one primary flow with one motorised valve ?
 
SafeGasInstall said:
Chris ,
what are the two pumps feeding to the left ? What is under the boiler rhs a secondery hot water pump ? What's the pump doing on the return to the boiler for and is there no expansion vessels fitted ?? I know is not your work just interest to find out the job specification .
also is both cylinders of one primary flow with one motorised valve ?
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Hi Stan
One does heating on the first & 2nd, the other the U/F on the whole Ground floor. (as Gray below) as for the other pump it sucks the water around the cylinders & a 22mm towel rail circuit as well as aiding & abetting the other two heating pumps it would seem (mind you all are 15/50's on speed 3) expansion vessel & loop are on the floor to the left out of shot. Job specification ??? no there wasn't one (I asked) which went along with the insulation on all the pipework not just in the plant room throughout the whole house.
 
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