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rfairbairns
Hi Folks I have a question but I can't post it anywhere... Keeps denying me for bad words!
Maybe this forum can read my mind....
Maybe this forum can read my mind....
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Ermintrude
It's the mods.
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In a nutshell. Old house, new renovation inc new Boiler, Worcester Bosch 40cdi, booster etc.
Occasionally usually morning getting very brown water through hot tap. They reused some of the old pipe work.
They are telling me it's fine it will go away.
Except another forum people are saying this is very wrong and potentially dangerous.
So I called a few plumbers from small to large outfits and they have all said this is wrong and they should have not used old pipes.
Now I'm asking you lot aka the pro's?
Occasionally usually morning getting very brown water through hot tap. They reused some of the old pipe work.
They are telling me it's fine it will go away.
Except another forum people are saying this is very wrong and potentially dangerous.
So I called a few plumbers from small to large outfits and they have all said this is wrong and they should have not used old pipes.
Now I'm asking you lot aka the pro's?
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All the tanks were removed only old piping used. The new tank now sits next to the boiler and the grundfos booster / softener / magnet filter etc.
When you say new tank do you mean unvented cylinder?
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rfairbairns
That's the one.. Unvented Cylinder.
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shouldnt this be moved to another forum?how longs it been in sounds very wrong to me sounds like they have used a heating pipe for water naughty naughty
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Darren85
Are the old pipes iron or copper?
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rfairbairns
OK So he returned to the job.
He agreed there should be some lagging on the pipes and there isn't for nearly 10m through the rafters.
He explained that he used 5m of Heating Pipe which was also had connected the radiator in the bathroom on the same loop into the bathroom upstairs.
This means that all the hot water for the bathroom upstarirs was circulating through the radiator (actually not all as it was in a loop on the same pipework)
He explained that if he removed the radiator this should solve the problem. He removed the radiator and capped off both ends.
Then we started the system up again and alot of brown water came out the hot pipe... But what stunned me, was that brown water came out the cold pipe...?!?? I'm so confused!
I have told him that I want total replacement of the pipework, and that I won't settle until he has dfelivered what I originally quote for.
He tells me the least disturbing way to do this is to run plastic pipe through the loft and drop down into the two bathrooms.
The Floor now has new carpet on it, and the floor to ceiling is only about 4inches deep (wooden joists hodolung up the floorboards) So its difficult to cut in new pipework, which is why they used the old pipework.
he says this is perfectly normal, and happens on alot of construction sites he works on....
He agreed there should be some lagging on the pipes and there isn't for nearly 10m through the rafters.
He explained that he used 5m of Heating Pipe which was also had connected the radiator in the bathroom on the same loop into the bathroom upstairs.
This means that all the hot water for the bathroom upstarirs was circulating through the radiator (actually not all as it was in a loop on the same pipework)
He explained that if he removed the radiator this should solve the problem. He removed the radiator and capped off both ends.
Then we started the system up again and alot of brown water came out the hot pipe... But what stunned me, was that brown water came out the cold pipe...?!?? I'm so confused!
I have told him that I want total replacement of the pipework, and that I won't settle until he has dfelivered what I originally quote for.
He tells me the least disturbing way to do this is to run plastic pipe through the loft and drop down into the two bathrooms.
The Floor now has new carpet on it, and the floor to ceiling is only about 4inches deep (wooden joists hodolung up the floorboards) So its difficult to cut in new pipework, which is why they used the old pipework.
he says this is perfectly normal, and happens on alot of construction sites he works on....
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Ermintrude
Yes probably just the sites he works on an no one else. He sounds very green. ( inexperienced or rough)
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chancer i wish i had his brass neck
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