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Dangerous Gas Boiler A day in the life of a Gas Engineer _ Plumber
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00:00:09.559 --> 00:00:15.000 My name's Allen Hart and today I'm doing day in the life of a gas engineer so 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:20.789 being called out to to a Baxi Gas Boiler so it's been it's been capped off as has 00:00:20.789 --> 00:00:27.180 been unsafe this boat is about two years old apparently it was installed by 00:00:27.180 --> 00:00:32.489 gas safe registered engineer I'm gonna have a look at all pipe work I'm gonna 00:00:32.489 --> 00:00:40.590 ring gas safe if just just see what's going on here so what I'll do now is well have 00:00:40.590 --> 00:00:44.789 a look and I'll show you I'll show you the faults with this and I'll show you 00:00:44.789 --> 00:00:52.050 the reasons why it's been capped off and then from that I'll rectify some of the 00:00:52.050 --> 00:00:57.660 issues and then we'll we'll hopefully get it back up and running again so 00:00:57.660 --> 00:01:00.960 let's have a look now and I'll show you I'll show you around 00:01:00.960 --> 00:01:08.280 round the boiler so this is a buck seen gieux attack boiler in my opinion this 00:01:08.280 --> 00:01:13.619 is one of the best boilers of all time really bulletproof boiler and it just 00:01:13.619 --> 00:01:18.810 does what it says on the tin so if we have a look underneath with this first 00:01:18.810 --> 00:01:30.750 so we can just see it's been capped off and then if we have a look the pilot 00:01:30.750 --> 00:01:41.790 just so the boiler was just plugged in there's no spare from the boiler and 00:01:41.790 --> 00:01:50.220 then everything else all looks all looks like it's all okay and then if we go 00:01:50.220 --> 00:01:53.270 into this room here 00:01:56.470 --> 00:02:05.240 we're going to hear what conceit flu goes through but if we have a look 00:02:05.240 --> 00:02:36.920 they've got power of the flu missing so when we actually look inside this is 00:02:36.920 --> 00:02:51.620 that some it's actually exponent it's actually that insulation board put just 00:02:51.620 --> 00:03:00.049 to pop it up just to just to start like hold it up what set this off now I'm 00:03:00.049 --> 00:03:08.570 luck a bit bad so there's no paperwork for this boiler as such so there's 00:03:08.570 --> 00:03:14.570 there's no benchmark that's so normally another benchmark booklet and of all the 00:03:14.570 --> 00:03:20.720 readings in of the emissions and and all the bits and baths for when it was 00:03:20.720 --> 00:03:25.220 installed so there's none of that here these some paperwork there's a gas 00:03:25.220 --> 00:03:34.760 safety certificate that's dated March 2018 and there's also something here to 00:03:34.760 --> 00:03:41.720 suggest that was fitted on December 2016 I'm gonna ring gas safe up and I'm just 00:03:41.720 --> 00:03:46.700 going to just double check about that but yeah so so let's have a look let's 00:03:46.700 --> 00:03:53.239 have a look at the boiler I'll take this flow off and yeah that's gonna look it 00:03:53.239 --> 00:03:58.510 now I've got this flow up now 00:04:17.919 --> 00:04:24.530 so I've obviously got an issue there with how the flue falls as well it's got 00:04:24.530 --> 00:04:29.600 water water in the flue so we'll have a look now so I'll just 00:04:29.600 --> 00:04:58.820 pull this I'll just pull this that actually looks like looks like it is 00:04:58.820 --> 00:05:01.210 long 00:05:16.139 --> 00:05:20.789 so I know that's just loose is that I 00:05:20.819 --> 00:05:33.300 don't know what type of flue that it's obviously some saw a plume kit a bit more 00:05:43.220 --> 00:05:49.620 so when I'm looking at this that looks like that is the normal flu because 00:05:49.620 --> 00:05:57.000 that's got the the the Weather ring in there so if he trips why from outside it 00:05:57.000 --> 00:06:03.060 runs off and it's got the skills in there and another thing to find out 00:06:03.060 --> 00:06:26.400 where their spins move this so just got a new flue if you have a look on a new 00:06:26.400 --> 00:06:32.960 flu it's got that ring there and it's got a spear points there the skill goals 00:06:32.960 --> 00:06:42.110 so I'm wondering if a builder as checking the end off this end off here 00:06:42.110 --> 00:06:48.569 and then just put some some sort of plunk it up inside of that and we'll 00:06:48.569 --> 00:06:53.219 it's it's off topic boiler know I'm gonna tell them you knew this flue just 00:06:53.219 --> 00:07:01.080 so I know this is all salt correct this part of the flue as you can see from 00:07:01.080 --> 00:07:09.000 there it's all cemented in so this parts being done installed well if you can pay 00:07:09.000 --> 00:07:11.630 it's that bit 00:07:11.810 --> 00:07:21.300 it seems very different my belief is a builder has extended this and not the 00:07:21.300 --> 00:07:27.419 original gas engineer I'm still going to check we got safe and we still got no 00:07:27.419 --> 00:07:32.819 benchmark but customer could have the the old customer could have taken that 00:07:32.819 --> 00:07:38.360 with them because this is something new now that lives in this property 00:07:41.340 --> 00:07:50.140 so this looks not too bad any area where the mid an effort is sealing it with 00:07:50.140 --> 00:07:56.380 some of cement so I'm just gonna remove this elbow now just one thing I have 00:07:56.380 --> 00:08:03.450 noticed there the flue absolutely falls away from the boiler so it falls down to 00:08:03.450 --> 00:08:08.830 what would be outside so that's why it's add water in the flue 00:08:08.830 --> 00:08:15.250 so the flu should always fall back to the boiler so that's something going out 00:08:15.250 --> 00:08:23.500 way so as I can see now that's just a standard telescopic flue and this were 00:08:23.500 --> 00:08:31.330 all cemented in really well as I say it stops them getting out so I'm just gonna 00:08:31.330 --> 00:08:36.250 put the new flow on now these floats come with some silicon grease and you 00:08:36.250 --> 00:08:41.530 just put something on them seals in there just so that when you put it on 00:08:41.530 --> 00:08:47.500 the bow you don't put seals out I don't think to point out as well as this is a 00:08:47.500 --> 00:08:51.610 low profile elbow on these now and they need to be 00:08:51.610 --> 00:08:57.040 screwed as well the other one wasn't screwed so I'm slipping the supplier 00:08:57.040 --> 00:09:05.770 than him so we now no need to check that the new flu is gonna fall back to the 00:09:05.770 --> 00:09:15.850 boiler so about there I'll just need to wedge that up so I've done the flue part 00:09:15.850 --> 00:09:20.800 of this now so I'm going to connect the gas back up and then I'm gonna test the 00:09:20.800 --> 00:09:28.260 gas so just just get this oh yeah a virus like enough 00:09:42.600 --> 00:09:47.890 and then people attack that up and I'm gonna go put a test on gas so just blood 00:09:47.890 --> 00:09:54.460 tests on gases now so I've got my Titan test I know we have some mixed feedback 00:09:54.460 --> 00:10:29.380 on that and I thought became a miser where they work in because I'm gonna 00:10:29.380 --> 00:10:43.270 print it out as well just to prove this is right so I'll come back to you in a 00:10:43.270 --> 00:10:48.630 few minutes so as we know we've got a farm and it tests 00:10:48.630 --> 00:10:55.090 so it just tested a lot by now we're doing a minute sterilization and then 00:10:55.090 --> 00:11:00.790 we've got two minutes for the test so just got about eight seconds left on 00:11:00.790 --> 00:11:06.310 this test yeah and we can see that it's not drops 00:11:06.310 --> 00:11:12.120 oh so I'm just going to print out 00:11:20.709 --> 00:11:27.410 I'm also going to get at this now this file is a particular boiler and it's 00:11:27.410 --> 00:11:32.930 quite far away and so we're done with coda and the gas is 22 mm so I do 00:11:32.930 --> 00:11:37.040 suspect they will be under gassed so I'm just going to go fire the boiler room 00:11:37.040 --> 00:11:50.200 and so I'll just turn this stick it off set the burner on so to put this into 00:11:50.200 --> 00:11:57.310 commissioning mode our service mod you just put on so they're just come back 00:11:57.310 --> 00:12:03.080 and I'll go into service mode so that service mud on high and then you can set 00:12:03.080 --> 00:12:09.230 it down to just one thing well you're doing this if you run the 00:12:09.230 --> 00:12:18.380 hot tub then you'll stay in service mode longer got an app on before and I'm just 00:12:18.380 --> 00:12:32.380 gonna put the reading in so it's 101 101 warm 3.38 00:12:36.790 --> 00:12:42.870 so start now and I'll just come back to you in a few minutes 00:12:42.870 --> 00:12:49.360 so I'll just don't gas off when it's at five or four or five so we said five 00:12:49.360 --> 00:13:04.360 four five so we can calculate right now and it's given is faithful so I can say 00:13:04.360 --> 00:13:13.590 it's definitely under guests I'm gonna test this now with the analyzer test the 00:13:13.590 --> 00:13:18.370 pressure one thing to point out here we have a 00:13:18.370 --> 00:13:23.980 lot could be pressure gauge that was at one bar now this is a big heating system 00:13:23.980 --> 00:13:28.210 and it's only got the expansion vessel that's in the boiler 00:13:28.210 --> 00:13:34.060 so clearly the expansion vessel is under sized for this system so that's also 00:13:34.060 --> 00:13:41.010 something something that we'll have to set a customer to advise to 00:13:41.230 --> 00:13:48.500 so the emissions are flying on high law unscrew swap but now reject the inlet to 00:13:48.500 --> 00:13:52.399 make sure that that's okay as well 00:13:52.399 --> 00:14:00.050 so the admin my spy so pressure gears has gone our way round to free now as 00:14:00.050 --> 00:14:07.309 the system has got well so definitely it definitely needs an expansion vessel an 00:14:07.309 --> 00:14:15.050 additional expansion vessel fitted I've just called box a and box a have 00:14:15.050 --> 00:14:22.189 confirmed that the boiler has not been registered a bank phone gas safe and gas 00:14:22.189 --> 00:14:28.879 safe also confirmed that the boiler hasn't been registered so it seems like 00:14:28.879 --> 00:14:35.269 it wasn't installed by gas if engineer I don't know the jury's out I have got 00:14:35.269 --> 00:14:41.959 some information here which says certificate of installation and it says 00:14:41.959 --> 00:14:47.059 that the boiler has been installed as per manufacturer's instructions and 00:14:47.059 --> 00:14:52.189 complies with building regulations installed ain't commissioned and it says 00:14:52.189 --> 00:14:57.889 the name and it's signed so that of customer looking at that would would 00:14:57.889 --> 00:15:04.819 feel that it's been being done correctly so what's gonna happen next is this this 00:15:04.819 --> 00:15:15.079 is gonna be required to gas safe and gas it can do some investigations and see so 00:15:15.079 --> 00:15:19.399 yeah so I love a lot I'll show you I'll show you at rest of what I've done a 00:15:19.399 --> 00:15:25.670 half shot I'll show your flue and then we'll finish up really so you have to 00:15:25.670 --> 00:15:30.439 always make sure that you use a gas safe registered engineer and if you're gonna 00:15:30.439 --> 00:15:35.809 buy a property it is very easy just a phone gas surf up and just ask them if 00:15:35.809 --> 00:15:41.980 the boiler that's been installed has been registered so don't rely on 00:15:41.980 --> 00:15:47.809 certificates the solicitor gives you actually for gas if and then they will 00:15:47.809 --> 00:15:53.209 tell you whether or not it has as I said the customers got a few different sort 00:15:53.209 --> 00:15:57.670 certificates here that would suggest that it's been installed 00:15:57.670 --> 00:16:01.850 they said Binney stock correctly it says it's been installed some manufacturer 00:16:01.850 --> 00:16:07.100 instructions and it hasn't there's quite a few quite a few reasons 00:16:07.100 --> 00:16:11.990 it hasn't so the gas is under sized the blow off the PRV doesn't go to 00:16:11.990 --> 00:16:19.160 outside the flue was incorrect also there's no controls on it so it's just 00:16:19.160 --> 00:16:27.800 enough for later hasn't even got time or anything to control it so clearly it 00:16:27.800 --> 00:16:32.629 hasn't been a very you know a very good install but well have a look at rest of 00:16:32.629 --> 00:16:41.959 it now just a block up flue and yeah so I'm just gonna check the water flow on 00:16:41.959 --> 00:16:47.660 this just to see if it was the right size boiler for this process I would 00:16:47.660 --> 00:16:50.800 never insult viola 00:16:55.970 --> 00:17:01.119 so we've got about 10 litres a minute on hot water 00:17:08.310 --> 00:17:16.800 I've got about 10 litres a minute at Cold War so we could about a 25 kilowatt 00:17:16.800 --> 00:17:27.740 hour 28 kilowatt boiler and it's got 10 litres a minute I'm cold 00:17:27.740 --> 00:17:35.910 this boy Lord really you need to have at least 18 19 litres a minute on your cold 00:17:35.910 --> 00:17:42.770 water so so the boiler will work to its full potential this boiler is far far 00:17:42.770 --> 00:17:49.920 too big for his property you don't need a five kilowatt boiler for 10 litres a 00:17:49.920 --> 00:17:53.520 minute it's just madness the other thing as 00:17:53.520 --> 00:18:00.990 well the the gas wouldn't have needed to be so big if if right-size boiler so 00:18:00.990 --> 00:18:06.390 that could have fitted a 24 on a 28 kilowatt boiler in this property and it 00:18:06.390 --> 00:18:11.330 would have just done just as good in fact it probably being slightly better 00:18:11.330 --> 00:18:19.680 so yeah it's just it's just crazy really right okay so let's all rest of stuff 00:18:19.680 --> 00:18:28.920 now so that's the flue outside all don't know so I can see the pressure has gone 00:18:28.920 --> 00:18:37.160 above free bar now if we have a look here we can just see a bit of water 00:18:37.160 --> 00:18:44.100 thanks running down from the inside in the house so I just need to wipe that 00:18:44.100 --> 00:18:52.400 flew off so sealed it inside and outside and what you need a bit filler 00:18:54.440 --> 00:19:00.110 I've only had time to deal the flu today I'm gonna make some recommendations for 00:19:00.110 --> 00:19:03.049 the customer so the gas needs to be updated 00:19:03.049 --> 00:19:08.900 it needs the blow-off the PRV chicken that needs to be taken to outside 00:19:08.900 --> 00:19:15.200 it needs a remor expansion vessel fee as well also it's got some radio valves 00:19:15.200 --> 00:19:23.210 that's they're leaking so they will need they need replacing so yeah I uh puff I 00:19:23.210 --> 00:19:27.500 hope I've not missed out out that I wanted to put in a hour but if you've 00:19:27.500 --> 00:19:32.780 got any questions please please ask them in comments below and thank you for 00:19:32.780 --> 00:19:37.990 taking the time to watch to watch this video thanks very much
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