HALL of SHAME PHOTo`s

[Ermintrude]

Raxi solo.

 

[Leo21]

Raxi solo.

Haven't heard of that particular brand, is it new?

 

[Kev the gas]

Raxi Solo !!

Ah the old he plus !

Yes to my own question it only needs 50 mm clearance at the bottom, fun emptying the condense drain then !

Next question What news paper was it ???

 

[Ermintrude]

Daily mirror?

 

[Chalked]

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I have had 2 x local plumbers send me the same pic.

One of them initially put my name forward to price the job, an old floor standing Rs boiler on gravity with a split coil in the cylinder.

Rather than do a full convert to fully pumped the chosen installer has just put a pump on the returns and told the old girl to turn off the rads when she does'nt want them on :smug2:.

He did raise the expansion tank tho, which he thought might help the split coil in the cylinder !!!!!

Sorry cant make out the model of the new boiler but can it be fitted under a work top ??

is the bit of aluminium a heat shield for when the paper gets going.?

 

[Billy Bob Bob]

Haven't heard of that particular brand, is it new?

its the new Chinese version

 

[Chalked]

IMO total over reaction. That flue never gets hot.

Never will get hot

There's worse things out there. And if there was a bit if plaster board over the front of that nobody would know

I know it will never light, inner flue only 55 degrees.
..... Was meant to be humour! Oh well.

 

[solutions]

View attachment 16098

I have had 2 x local plumbers send me the same pic.

One of them initially put my name forward to price the job, an old floor standing Rs boiler on gravity with a split coil in the cylinder.

Rather than do a full convert to fully pumped the chosen installer has just put a pump on the returns and told the old girl to turn off the rads when she does'nt want them on :smug2:.

He did raise the expansion tank tho, which he thought might help the split coil in the cylinder !!!!!

Sorry cant make out the model of the new boiler but can it be fitted under a work top ??

Reminds me of the flue I came across when replacing an expansion vessel had to break the plaster around the flue only to find the huge void and cavity stuffed with T shirts.

 

[Ermintrude]

What?

 

[Barry98]

Nice bit of lagging

 

[GasmanxxxR1]

What?

When I get cylinder changes, thats what the airing cupboard looks like

 

[lame plumber]

aah but when the lady of the house stuffs all her laundry back in its fully supported and insulated

 

[stevetheplumber]

When I get cylinder changes, thats what the airing cupboard looks like

i think theyve under priced the lagging

 

[Ermintrude]

Lagging was acoustic , to stop the heavily clipped pipes resonating when in shower. Lady of the house couldn't wash her junk in peace !

 

[Mike Jackson]

Found this pic from a few years back. Warmfront job, boiler had been turned off due to low inlet working gas pressure. Warmsure had said that pipework was undersized as it was mainly 15mm to a 24Kw isar. I turned up to repipe and found the meter less than 6 foot from the boiler with about 4 ft of 15mm. I could see why the original installer hadn't upgraded it as it disappeared behind the unit and re appeared through the worktop. A repipe would have entailed destroying the unit. I turned back on and tested, pipework was gas tight, 21 working at meter, 8 at boiler (which was surprisingly working). Obviously some sort of blockage and my eye was drawn to a new compression fitting where the new pipework from the meter was connected to the old pipework running through the cupboard.

I took the fitting apart and found


bhw2646 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr

A good illustration of why, if pasting joints, you should take the nut and olive off and paste it on the pipe rather than wiping paste in the joint.

Funny how the original installer had signed the boiler off with an inlet working pressure of 20 mbar. The paste must have got into the joint on it's own. I was also ticked off that the old lady had been left with no heating or hot water when it took me 5 minutes to rectify. It wouldn't have hurt the warmsure engineer to spend 5 minutes looking for a blockage rather than doing the usual TOFO.

 

[Koogatubac]

Hmm...where could the cylinder be?
Before

After

 

[Sparkgap]

From a local OPH, where somebody has shares in pushfit....



And a local NHS plantroom....



Sure, that's gonna work!

 

[Keefy]

Hmm...where could the cylinder be?

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Where did all that maggoty looking stuff come from, is it the type of thing you pack boxes with?

 

[Leo21]

Where did all that maggoty looking stuff come from, is it the type of thing you pack boxes with?

I thought it was a new fangled way of protecting the floor, dust sheet replacement if you will.

 

[Koogatubac]

Keefy - lol ur dead right! Polyester wrappings. Used long time ago to hold in heat. It did aswell, was like a sauna when i took the cupboard apart. Just rub salt in wounds, they have JUST had new bathroom fitted inc new tiles. All the cupboard was tiled to, extremely tight! Was so suprised i didnt smash either basin, toilet or any of the tiles!! Lol

 

[Destroyer2813]

Was it leaking koog ?

 

[Leo21]

Was it leaking koog ?

Do you really ask that?

 

[Destroyer2813]

Do you really ask that?

May have just been changing the drain off washer :winkiss

 

[Koogatubac]

Lol no, changing system to a combi

 

[galaxy_plumbing]

was hopping you put all those wrapping maggots back