You are absolutely correct. I can only plead poorliness and rushing around to get to Tuesday Pie Night. I meant Cadent (or similar depending upon location)
Huge gas pressure drop between meter and boiler. Help!
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You are absolutely correct. I can only plead poorliness and rushing around to get to Tuesday Pie Night. I meant Cadent (or similar depending upon location)
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Not at all. I meant Cadent
Guessed as much T , you are normally on the ball
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You mean the installer got the wiring wrong? Or he discovered it?
If this was the thread - the installer got it wrong...
https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/heating-nightmare-hive-vaillant-or-wiring.541617/#post-4590321
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well discovered Harry! Another case of just replacing in situ and not checking anything. More money down the drain but checking the GSE reviews on check a trade he’s got nothing but 10s
That's because CheckaTrade, like all of the similar sites, delete any bad reviews very quickly. Not generally a good place to find genuine operatives, the genuine ones are flooded with work and don't need to pay such companies a back hander to promote themselves.
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Back again with a tidy hole in the fake wall. I might have to open it up a bit more to be right on top of the pipes but from what I can see and feel there are 3 pipes going up. Two are 15mm I would say and the third one feels larger so I would say 22mm.
Edit- after that I cleared out all the crap in the cupboard and all the (messy) pipe work is there to be seen. If I’m right the gas pipe is at the back and looks to be 22mm and has an isolator on it. If that is the case then it means that a very short distance is 15mm which means the pressure drop is very strange. Oh well let’s see what GS have to say and I think I can fill the hole back in!
Edit- after that I cleared out all the crap in the cupboard and all the (messy) pipe work is there to be seen. If I’m right the gas pipe is at the back and looks to be 22mm and has an isolator on it. If that is the case then it means that a very short distance is 15mm which means the pressure drop is very strange. Oh well let’s see what GS have to say and I think I can fill the hole back in!
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Hi there. It ended with the plumber never coming back to the house. For the past 2 years I’ve had other plumbers come along for a boiler service as part of the boiler cover insurance (yourrepair/homeserve) and they didn’t have any issues. Then again I’m not sure if they did the same tests the original plumber did.
In the end I just didn’t trust the original plumber. He didn’t follow the guidelines for installation and laid the blame firmly with me for wanting to have the heating fixed (quickly) so he took a shortcut.
In the end I just didn’t trust the original plumber. He didn’t follow the guidelines for installation and laid the blame firmly with me for wanting to have the heating fixed (quickly) so he took a shortcut.
Very common trend now a days.
A bad workman blames his tools proverb covers a lot of ground these days.
Trouble is, a lot of the home cover policies do bare minimum on a service.
And if gas pressure can be NCS and is within the manufacturers (internal) safety zone, they tend to gloss over it.
It's a grey area and is a tricky one.
The tendancy is that if all appliances have auto gas shut off devices then there's no problem.
Not good if you have an old hob/cooker or gas fire.
And if gas pressure can be NCS and is within the manufacturers (internal) safety zone, they tend to gloss over it.
It's a grey area and is a tricky one.
The tendancy is that if all appliances have auto gas shut off devices then there's no problem.
Not good if you have an old hob/cooker or gas fire.
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