I am a member, I will ask the question.
I appreciate your point, but again I am not sure it is a good analogy.In the electrical a good electrician will, for example, test all circuits on an electrical installation before changing the consumer unit. However, not every problem can be detected through testing. After moving from an old Wylex Standard to a modern consumer unit with RCDs and RCBOs, would you expect an electrician to return and fault find free of charge if one of your appliances is causing nuisance tripping?
The point I'm trying to make here is that testing can only get you so far. I maintain that after carrying out a pressure test, you would have been in exactly the same predicament regardless of what type of boiler you had fitted.
Tel has either misunderstood and misquoting, or he's making it up. The only alternative is that the IoPH is not "fir for purpose", and I will resign immediately!. Or I would if I was a member.
Is there a member of the Institute that could say if this is a genuine IPH statem
Tel has either misunderstood and misquoting, or he's making it up. The only alternative is that the IoPH is not "fir for purpose", and I will resign immediately!. Or I would if I was a member.
Is there a member of the Institute that could say if this is a genuine IPH statem
I most certainly did not make it up, by all means check with them, and hopefully follow their advise in future.
Well I've just read the whole of this thread and I'm not a gas fitter. I just have to say that the gas guys have totally destroyed any argument that Telbee has come up with. For heaven's sake stop being stubborn and accept the referee's decision. When one man says the rest of the world is wrong we all know who is really wrong. If there is blame anywhere it's with the initial installer concreting directly over the copper piping.
Oh and it really shouldn't cost much to get a 9 inch grinder with a good diamond disc out and cut a new groove in the floor. You can do the clean up yourself after.
Gas engineers 10 - OP - 0.
I am a householder, not a heating installer. But I have been in business and would hesitate to accept responsibilty for repairing an inherent, pre-existing fault in a customers installation, free of charge. It would be difficult to persuade a Court that the contract to fit a new boiler implicitly gave the boiler installer that responsibility.Regarding the opinions of posters, they virtually all appear to be biased towards the views of trades people, rather than customers, because they are trades people, so there is no surprise there.
The crux of this matter is/was the pressure test perfomed correct.As the PRV on the new boiler is 3 bar, any test carried out should have at least achieved the 3 bar blow off,not failed at 1.bar after commissioning .as stated.The onus, in my opinion is with who did the test, and the results of such.3 bar should have destroyed the existing pipework if it,s leaking at 1 bar after commission.even given it being under 1" of screed.this must have shown during the test.if correctly doneI am a householder, not a heating installer. But I have been in business and would hesitate to accept responsibilty for repairing an inherent, pre-existing fault in a customers installation, free of charge. It would be difficult to persuade a Court that the contract to fit a new boiler implicitly gave the boiler installer that responsibility.Regarding the opinions of posters, they virtually all appear to be biased towards the views of trades people, rather than customers, because they are trades people, so there is no surprise there.
Don't you think?
I am a householder, not a heating installer. But I have been in business and would hesitate to accept responsibilty for repairing an inherent, pre-existing fault in a customers installation, free of charge. It would be difficult to persuade a Court that the contract to fit a new boiler implicitly gave the boiler installer that responsibility.Regarding the opinions of posters, they virtually all appear to be biased towards the views of trades people, rather than customers, because they are trades people, so there is no surprise there.
Don't you think?
I also find it quite telling that there has not been a single opinion with any sympathy to the fact I have paid out a large sum of money for a boiler which fails to operate, which has caused major flooding and inconvenience, and the installation company now expects further money to put it right. This probably is a very good indication of the mindset of most of the posters on here (and from my experience most tradesmen).
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