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[rhubarbe] 31/1/2011 23:45

Tell me about it..

[barongboy] 31/1/2011 23:44

Yes those were the days eh ?

[rhubarbe] 31/1/2011 23:40

When we first bought our house we had a huge high output back boiler. It used 300KG of coal a fortnight and wasn't connected to any rads.

You lit the fire and then had to have a bath every two hours or the steam shooting back up into the header tank condensed on the roof felt in the loft and dripped down onto the lounge ceiling, above the TV.

Later we ran 6 rads off it no problem and eventually, when the boiler burned through we took it out and found, that it had never been connected to the flow pipe which instead ran just behind it....

[barongboy] 31/1/2011 23:15

My son decided to change his c.heating pump and then called me to ask why water kept coming from his expasion pipe back into his tank.Had the pump the wrong way round simple but easy for an actuary computer programer (who can spell)aparently.

[riggerdigger] 31/1/2011 22:19

Jimmy 321 very difficult to powerflush microbore pipes,worth replacing pipework with main runs 22mm and branches to the rads in 15mm. Prefer copper pipes myself but plenty of plastic alternatives available.

[rhubarbe] 31/1/2011 22:12

Fair enough..

[maxcashflow] 31/1/2011 22:09

I guess they are all searching for oil?

[rhubarbe] 31/1/2011 22:06

We do seem a tad light on plumbers on here all of a sudden. Come along now, don't be shy..

[maxcashflow] 31/1/2011 22:00

I plumbed in my own boiler last year, a fancy Weissmann weather sensing one, and replaced lots of pipes, TRVs, etc at the same time. All under the watchful eye of my Corgi registered neighbour, of course, who did the tricky gas bits and called me "the apprentice". Very satisfying to do something real rather than just stare at computer all day.

[rhubarbe] 31/1/2011 12:18

Need some plumbers..... ;)

[yorgi] 31/1/2011 12:15

This could end up being the busiest board on ADVFN Rhubarbe :-)

[rhubarbe] 31/1/2011 12:00

Keep it bubbling away, he'll be back on in a bit..

[hectorp] 31/1/2011 11:48

no sign of the black spanner yet.. or his sidekick baldpipe. ;-)

[rhubarbe] 31/1/2011 11:42

If you're on mains gas then likely it'll be worth doing the necessary work, but if You are not on mains gas consider an air to air Air Source Heat Pump..



Our rads (apart from the on) all work fine so we installed an air to water Air Source Heat Pump. The heat pump is brilliant. It costs 25p an hour to run compared with the £1 an hour that our old LPG boiler was costing and our house is now warm for the first time in the 22 years we have lived in it.

[jimmy321] 31/1/2011 11:29

I have microbore pipes, my heating has broken down every year for the past 14 years and im on my second boiler (closed system) and after getting it flushed 5 years ago over the last year 4 raditors stopped working agian.

Rather than call a company I deceied to track down a local heating engineer to explain the problem as see if he know how to fix it, as soon as I told him my address he said 'oh they houses, it needs re-piping!' WTF

Anyway the PRV blew a few weeks back and the pressure vessel if broken so Im heating the house with the gas fire in the living room and electric heaters elsewhere while I asses my course of action.

I'm leaning towards getting it completely replaced, pipes, radiator, thermostat & boiler.

My house is 14 years old and I recon I have spent around £4k on heating repairs.

[rhubarbe] 31/1/2011 11:19

rhubarbe - 31 Jan'11 - 10:42 - 22420 of 22425 edit

Yes, very quiet. Nice and stable share price

blackspanner: all in 15mm. Yes, bypass present, not touched, works. System is powered by ASHP. Both pumps new. Pressurised system 1.25 bar.

There, didn't hurt, did it, Chris? share price even went up.

[rhubarbe] 31/1/2011 11:17

Hectorp - 31 Jan'11 - 08:41 - 22417 of 22425 (premium)

Relax chaps, what's a couple of days.
PS I wanted to ask the black spanner, can I plumb
a multtifuel stove with a back boiler into my central heating system?
Or, I have a water storage cylynder: maybe best straight through that using a coil in it?
H.

[rhubarbe] 31/1/2011 11:17

Thread to discuss central heating problems.

[rhubarbe] 31/1/2011 11:12

A thread to discuss central heating related problems.

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