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Dangerous Combi Boiler Installation - Faulty Gas Boilers - Plumber
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00:00:03.259 minoes arm hurts and today I've been 00:00:05.74900:00:05.759 called out to an ideal and the ideals 00:00:09.44000:00:09.450 got l/f fault on it and this is this 00:00:13.19000:00:13.200 boiler is seven years old 00:00:14.72000:00:14.730 the expunction vessel is faulty and 00:00:17.45000:00:17.460 needs needs charging up it's got a few 00:00:21.52900:00:21.539 issues with this it's been in now for 00:00:23.50900:00:23.519 seven years 00:00:24.83000:00:24.840 oh yeah about seven years and I just 00:00:28.49000:00:28.500 want to show you the installation so 00:00:31.97000:00:31.980 let's have a look it in now so the same 00:00:35.54000:00:35.550 this has got a fault it's an L F fault 00:00:39.13000:00:39.140 the when the heating comes on this 00:00:45.68000:00:45.690 pressure gauge goes right up to free and 00:00:48.31900:00:48.329 it starts to leak out the PRV the 00:00:52.72900:00:52.739 blow-off pipe is here and it's not been 00:00:55.93900:00:55.949 connected and what happens is if you can 00:00:59.45000:00:59.460 see there you can see why you see to 00:01:01.52000:01:01.530 stay in there and the electrics 00:01:04.60900:01:04.619 underneath so what's happening is as the 00:01:08.78000:01:08.790 as the boiler gets hot the expansion 00:01:11.78000:01:11.790 goes up on here it leaks out of here and 00:01:15.44000:01:15.450 it leaks directly onto electrics as we 00:01:18.64900:01:18.659 can see it's not the it's not the best 00:01:20.59000:01:20.600 installed in the world it's also got 00:01:23.42000:01:23.430 wires this way it should be in a wall 00:01:27.28900:01:27.299 rather than you should use flex on this 00:01:31.09000:01:31.100 so it's certainly not not very good 00:01:33.67900:01:33.689 installed and then if you have a look at 00:01:35.63000:01:35.640 the flow there's no clips there's no 00:01:39.59000:01:39.600 clips on the flue here what we'll do 00:01:42.44000:01:42.450 just go up in the loft the customers 00:01:44.84000:01:44.850 said that nobody's ever been up in the 00:01:47.03000:01:47.040 loft before so we're just gonna have a 00:01:50.03000:01:50.040 look Rock up in the last and I'll just 00:01:52.67000:01:52.680 show you the flow 00:01:55.95000:01:55.960 let's get up here but sure so I got the 00:02:01.69000:02:01.700 flu again the flu has got no clips on it 00:02:06.60000:02:06.610 and it's been connected with cable ties 00:02:11.52000:02:11.530 and then it goes up for a loft with 00:02:14.55000:02:14.560 cable ties so there's no support or not 00:02:20.97900:02:20.989 flu that's all for look at comments here 00:02:27.69900:02:27.709 as well see what it comes out comes out 00:02:30.19000:02:30.200 in just overflow pipe and it did just go 00:02:33.97000:02:33.980 into good but now it just drips just 00:02:37.12000:02:37.130 groups down here and drips down while 00:02:39.07000:02:39.080 so obviously that would need updating 00:02:41.41000:02:41.420 and needs to go to a drain somewhere and 00:02:46.03000:02:46.040 the only dream we've got actually on 00:02:47.89000:02:47.900 this is down here over here so that I'd 00:02:52.50900:02:52.519 need updating from there a bobbed our 00:02:56.35000:02:56.360 way and then down it's a drain there so 00:03:01.21000:03:01.220 again that I've need updating I've just 00:03:04.12000:03:04.130 got to uh sad I'll just show you low 00:03:05.94900:03:05.959 flows up there as I see it's in the 00:03:08.77000:03:08.780 middle of the house and the gas the gas 00:03:14.19900:03:14.209 is just in this cupboard here 00:03:22.80000:03:22.810 the gutters in this cupboard here again 00:03:27.11900:03:27.129 not supplied so we'd need to say oh this 00:03:33.69900:03:33.709 would need updating no we need to 00:03:36.78900:03:36.799 somehow get this back into house so if 00:03:43.33000:03:43.340 we was gonna update it this boiler we'd 00:03:46.69000:03:46.700 have to put new pipe from here for the 00:03:50.34900:03:50.359 blow-off for the PRV I'd have to go down 00:03:54.28000:03:54.290 here and then we'd have to lift all 00:03:56.80000:03:56.810 these flowers up here and then we check 00:03:59.19900:03:59.209 it out oh we could maybe follow where 00:04:07.11900:04:07.129 that common set pack goes as well but we 00:04:10.66000:04:10.670 can also see the gas would also need 00:04:12.75900:04:12.769 updating cuz most boilers that affect by 00:04:16.56900:04:16.579 Allah would need a 22 millimeter 00:04:19.06000:04:19.070 gas supply so that would need updating 00:04:21.87900:04:21.889 on this as well we can see there's no 00:04:23.80000:04:23.810 clips so the gas here doesn't have any 00:04:27.46000:04:27.470 clips on it 00:04:29.49000:04:29.500 so obviously that don't need updating as 00:04:32.26000:04:32.270 well if the customer decided to go for a 00:04:35.11000:04:35.120 new boiler so as I said be interested to 00:04:39.61000:04:39.620 say what what people think and what what 00:04:42.21900:04:42.229 they would do in this situation what I'd 00:04:48.07000:04:48.080 like to ask is if in the comments below 00:04:50.14000:04:50.150 if you could put what you would 00:04:52.57000:04:52.580 recommend for this customer and then 00:04:55.36000:04:55.370 what I'll do is I'll told you I'll tell 00:04:57.40000:04:57.410 you what I've recommended and a lot of 00:05:00.07000:05:00.080 people might be quite surprised at what 00:05:02.32000:05:02.330 I have actually recommended but but yeah 00:05:04.81000:05:04.820 if you have some comments below and tell 00:05:07.71900:05:07.729 me what what you would recommend this 00:05:09.70000:05:09.710 customer does so bearing in mind it 00:05:11.92000:05:11.930 needs a new expansion vessel maybe we 00:05:14.74000:05:14.750 could we could obviously probably might 00:05:16.83900:05:16.849 want if we needed to 00:05:18.18900:05:18.199 it needs the PRV updating and that's 00:05:23.86000:05:23.870 quite tricky because this boiler is in 00:05:26.92000:05:26.930 the middle of the house so getting the 00:05:29.19000:05:29.200 pipe out 00:05:31.02900:05:31.039 wouldn't be the easiest job yeah and it 00:05:35.55900:05:35.569 needs to fault 00:05:36.27900:05:36.289 starting out as well the LF fault so as 00:05:39.18900:05:39.199 I say if you could put some comments 00:05:40.35900:05:40.369 below and let me know what what you 00:05:42.70000:05:42.710 would do and thanks for watching 00:05:45.21900:05:45.229 I just missed off as well it also needs 00:05:47.46900:05:47.479 the flu updating our SAP I honestly we 00:05:51.73000:05:51.740 wouldn't want to leave then cable ties 00:05:54.48900:05:54.499 in every time I see them Carol Taylor 00:05:57.07000:05:57.080 just burst out laughing I've never seen 00:06:00.07000:06:00.080 not like that before and I've seen some 00:06:02.64900:06:02.659 stuff in this job and but I've never 00:06:05.11000:06:05.120 seen cable ties on a flow before and 00:06:07.46900:06:07.479 yeah alright thanks very much comments 00:06:10.95900:06:10.969 below and please 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