heater for rads during boiler breakdown

[beesley121]

Hi guys,

Had a chat with a customer today, apparrently, last time her boiler went down the pan, the gas fitter who came to look at it left her with 4 'machines' that apparently kept her radiators warm whilst she was waiting for the new one to be fitted.

Ive never heard of such a machine, so woundering if any of you guys could enlighten me. Im guessing they are somekind of machine, much like a powerflusher that has a heating element and a pump to circulate. Thats my guess anyway lol

any advice much appreciated

 

[davebigpipes]

If that were the case there wouldn't have been four of them just one. Sounds like he left them four electric space heaters and the rads were not warm

 

[Roger Welton]

I know my local plumb center keep huge numbers of electric heaters in stock for one of the big contracting firms, to leave on site whilst heating is off.

 

[SimonJohns]

Be careful leaving electric rads. They will have implications for pat testing and insurance

 

[Dannypipe]

The only machine I know that could keep the rad's warm is called a boiler!! Customers, love em!!

I keep a stock of warm air blowers. I don't bother with PAT testing as I'm a small outfit. I just get customer to sign a disclaimer. They plug them in and use them. In fairness, the chances of something going wrong is very slim. Unless they decide to dry their towels by draping them over them.

 

[Mike Jackson]

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[ManchesterGas]

22Kw, that'll need 3 phase then! maybe he plugged 4x 3kw ones in to different sockets?

 

[puddy]

Me I use my boilermate 2000 but if you let total trade services aka tempo do any work they kill them then leave you in the freezing cold (feb 2011). This year due to a major oil leak yet again put down to bad workmanship.

I had to call on my boilermate otherwise we would have had no heating and hot water over xmas (2011) and new year. TTS service did not fix it even though it was still under warranty

I had to pay out again to get it fixed. This should have been covered by Total Trade Services aka Tempo warranty and warmfront did nothing to help even though I told them we had an oil leak on the 21st Dec 2011. Mark and Andy Dodds promised (at Total Trade Services) me it would be fixed before xmas. They sent 2 lads out in a van to tighten up the oil lines I told them this was to 5[SUP]th[/SUP] time this had been done. I asked them to replace a section of pipe work but they couldn't do it because they had no replacement oil line in their van. 2 days later the oil line sprang a leak again. My old engineer found it had be over tightened so much it crushed the washer yet again this cost me even more money

 

[fuzzy]

Hi guys,

Had a chat with a customer today, apparrently, last time her boiler went down the pan, the gas fitter who came to look at it left her with 4 'machines' that apparently kept her radiators warm whilst she was waiting for the new one to be fitted.

Ive never heard of such a machine, so woundering if any of you guys could enlighten me. Im guessing they are somekind of machine, much like a powerflusher that has a heating element and a pump to circulate. Thats my guess anyway lol

any advice much appreciated

??????????????? think she is getting mixed up

 

[fuzzy]

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interesting! :dizzy2: