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Did a rad change today (the one where I ended up using a screwdriver!), the boiler was an ancient 'behind the radiator' type where you swing the radiator out to get at the boiler - a Servo Warm Elegance if I remember correctly.
Anyway, I asked where the F/E tank was and was shown upstairs to a bedroom with this in the corner. The plant growing out of it is plastic btw.
The jug you see on the shelves is what they use to top it up when needed :dizzy2:
I mentioned my concerns about what would happen if a blockage or other problem caused the mad hot rad water up that pipe but the customer insisted that both BG and Npower had given the system a full bill of health, she even showed me the paperwork.
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JCplumb said:
Did a rad change today (the one where I ended up using a screwdriver!), the boiler was an ancient 'behind the radiator' type where you swing the radiator out to get at the boiler - a Servo Warm Elegance if I remember correctly.
Anyway, I asked where the F/E tank was and was shown upstairs to a bedroom with this in the corner. The plant growing out of it is plastic btw.
The jug you see on the shelves is what they use to top it up when needed :dizzy2:
I mentioned my concerns about what would happen if a blockage or other problem caused the mad hot rad water up that pipe but the customer insisted that both BG and Npower had given the system a full bill of health, she even showed me the paperwork.
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Servowarm......BG installed systems of many moons ago !!
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Servowarm were fitting urns before BG started fitting heating :wink:

Btw the pipe may be truewell and if the radiators have dimples on the back never put any pressure on them.
 
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Not very often you come across them these days. Not many left in. Would have been installed early 70's and she probably was the first one in the street with heating by a good few years.
If the master radiator was an elegance it has been changed from the original probably sometime in the late 80's. Simple reliable boilers (and heavy b's) and you find the people who have them love them.
 
Servowarm? The old rad boiler by the front door. Top the heating up by hand. Rad boiler with leaky hinges, pain in the ? never seen one? Amazing here's one still in existence
 
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