Timescale for central heating install
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Approx 6 radiators on the wall. One day for one person.
Piping up depending on construction and layout approx 2 days.
Boiler on wall 1 to 2 days.
Run up and fix any leaks approx 0.5 day.
All for one person.
Piping up depending on construction and layout approx 2 days.
Boiler on wall 1 to 2 days.
Run up and fix any leaks approx 0.5 day.
All for one person.
2 days for a 2 man team doing a good job. 4-5 days for one man. I'd expect to have it up and running day 3 and just making good and flushing day 4.
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That`s a combi with no F+E tank and a diamond drill for the flue - You`ve made my day , I used to hang cast iron Ideals and fit the 1foot square balanced flue through a hole I cut with hammer and chisel , and do the install , in similar time allowing for the extra graft - and houses full of furniture
. I always thought I was slow Didn`t have to be CORGI thenPresumably you were employed by "The Gas Board", which had a monopoly on installing, servicing etc anything gas related.
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DeltaT2
We have squads of two men, they'll do 6 radiators & a combi boiler in one day. Which is about normal for contractors in the UK.
Of course it can be a long day depending on the job & our lads don't hang around as they're on piece work.
It depends hugely on the bungalow and what's there already, but...
2 man-days would be the minimum, but the materials would all have to be pre-delivered, no delays with awkward old boiler removal, no gas pipes to be run under laminate floors, etc etc etc etc.
There's nearly always something to be bricked up, got round or sorted out which takes extra time.
Often the hit-squads who do 4-5 flats a week end up cutting corners and are't kind to your floorboards, joists, walls, ceilings, or something somewhere along the way.
Allowances for full commissioning, cleaning and balancing get squashed too.
A fit one-man-band would usually take about 4 days to do your 2-bed with some preparation, paperwork and "incidentals". Don't forget the time to quote and for your job and the jobs he didn't get.
2 man-days would be the minimum, but the materials would all have to be pre-delivered, no delays with awkward old boiler removal, no gas pipes to be run under laminate floors, etc etc etc etc.
There's nearly always something to be bricked up, got round or sorted out which takes extra time.
Often the hit-squads who do 4-5 flats a week end up cutting corners and are't kind to your floorboards, joists, walls, ceilings, or something somewhere along the way.
Allowances for full commissioning, cleaning and balancing get squashed too.
A fit one-man-band would usually take about 4 days to do your 2-bed with some preparation, paperwork and "incidentals". Don't forget the time to quote and for your job and the jobs he didn't get.
That's quick Dick, do they come back the next day to do the pipework?
It'd take me a week on my own, but I do have the odd ciggy break, every ten minutes.
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DeltaT2
How can you say all that Chris, have you ever been involved in contracts like that, where there's HA COWs inspecting the work daily??
the dreaded clark of works
At least you are speaking as being in the UK !
As opposed to those idiots who think that Scotland can exist as a country hived off from the rest and keeping the oil but missing out on the national expenditures such as defence etc.
3 men y plan , one day rip everything out all new back in
3 men combi system finished by 3pm all out all in
1 man 2 & half days y plan (same )
1 man 2 days combi system (same )
3 men combi system finished by 3pm all out all in
1 man 2 & half days y plan (same )
1 man 2 days combi system (same )
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DeltaT2
Ach don't listen to the Porage W.gs Tony!!
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