Joule unvented unit

[Best]

Oh dear. Poor customer.
Have they divulged how much they paid for that abomination? ?

No. They got a builder to take all the renovations including plumbing & heating. I advised that it needs a few hundred pounds to be worth doing and builder should pay up.
Apparently builder never has used this "plumber" before.
For me to put a proper discharge pipe in and remove the combination valve and fit it properly at unit plus fit a PRV at sink to keep all cold supplies balanced, etc, etc, will not leave me happy with it all. I am thinking that tank sitting on joist should have been supported better, plus all those pipes unclipped in mid air ain't good. Perhaps a plywooded stud wall built would have been sensible to fix everything to.

 

[Dotty]

Piece of pyshe this plumbing lark, innit!

 

[tomplumb83]

Load of rubbish. It isn't going to blow up though is it. Since when has an unvented cylinder ever blown up - never. More chance of Leicester City winning the Premiership
By all means, take a skill/knowledge assessment but why do you have to keep renewing?
The cylinders haven't changed in 5years. Its a racket

 

[Best]

Load of rubbish. It isn't going to blow up though is it. Since when has an unvented cylinder ever blown up - never. More chance of Leicester City winning the Premiership
By all means, take a skill/knowledge assessment but why do you have to keep renewing?
The cylinders haven't changed in 5years. Its a racket

True. But never say never. Saw a sealed heating system that blew the pipes apart when it overheated and couldn't release pressure due to a blocked relief valve.
The idiot that installed the work in my photos is not trainable and any unvented course wouldn't make him a decent person.

 

[tomplumb83]

I bring up the speil every other month. I work in a block of flats with 100 unvented cylinder in them.
Maintenance man happily works away on the cylinders. They go pop quite often, every other month one goes. Never been serviced in 15years, all sorts of things wrong with them from bad maintenance, they don't care and they know full well they should be worked on by a plumber. They've got another 45 blocks of flats, whats that 4500 cylinders

I just think its a ridiculous assessment and even more ridiculous that we take a day off work and pay 250quid for the privilege

 

[Best]

I got no training for the assessment. Just given the book and the papers.
I could have learnt it without the course

 

[stevetheplumber]

all training is backed up by horror stories of what can go wrong but in real life things seldom do
i had a gas fire in a room with no vents and the chimney had been sealed with a slate and cement 10 years previously fire was used regulary through the winter according to the trainers everyone in the house and quite possibly in the houses on either side should have died
in manny ways we over react to the few disasters that do happen by bringing in rules that cover every install
safety valve discharging internal in a ground floor kitchen with a tiled floor may cause damage but unlikley to cause harm im yet to see one spewing out burning hot water
if we applied the same standards to car related deaths we would all be back on push bikes