Recommend to all DIY'ers insulate your condensing pipes on your boiler. If you don't, don't moan when I take your hard-earned money for fixing it!
Insulate your condensing pipes!
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FFS keep quiet.
How am I going to pay for spring cruise?
How am I going to pay for spring cruise?
Don't worry, your cruise is safe. The muppets don't listen to good advice!
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is that all the pipes going into the boiler? New to all this and just had all out pipes fitted
The condensing pipe is the plastic pipe outside going to a drain pipe or drain. Please dont ask whats a drain pipe?!
The condensing pipe is the plastic pipe outside going to a drain pipe or drain. Please dont ask whats a drain pipe?!
I'm pretty sure I know what it is. ( I am American and just had out boiler and pipes done after a theft )
Under the boiler which is hanging in a cupboard in my bedroom, there is a plastic pipe which hangs out the wall from the bottom right hand side....
I think however, mine just pours out the side of the wall versus into a drain. (hmmmm)
Welcome to Merseyside!
If you have a white plastic condensate pipe, it should preferably drain into a waste pipe inside building. This will prevent freezing.
If it runs outside, it should terminate into a foul water drain, not just run onto ground. It should also be well insulated, to minimise freezing.
Short story, before we bought the house, it was robbed of all the pipes and an attempt at getting the boiler as well... so when they ripped out the boiler they left gaping holes from the flue and the plastic pipe... the plumber fixed it on the inside, but said he couldnt get to it on the outside....said something about needing a builder to finish the holes on the outside...
guess i better get on it, thank god were having a mild winter so far!
guess i better get on it, thank god were having a mild winter so far!
Those scallys! No pipe should just be left out of the wall, it needs to run to a drain or pipe. Doubt you have a cert. for the fitting of this boiler....
a cert?
Ill check tomorrow where the pipe run's hopefully i am wrong and it is into a drain
Ill check tomorrow where the pipe run's hopefully i am wrong and it is into a drain
A certificate from a gas safe engineer! Not just one written on the back of a cigarette packet! U might want to get a professional round ASAP!
No no... he was certified...Long story really! The previous owner paid for the piping and the new boiler...part of our agreement considering we got a steal of a deal on the house. It wasn't some random on the corner! I promise!
If he was certified and he knew what he was doing why is the condensing pipe just discharged through the wall. And do you have a certificate?
ill have to check with the prior owner, but I think he does.
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