Right, following my post yesterday explaining a fault I was having on my recently installed new system, it quickly came to my attention that it wasnt just us that thought their piping was below par. So I have taken pictures of most of the visible pipework and I hope that proffessional pipe fitters and CORGI installers can advise me what to do.
In total we paid about £3750 and the initial estimate £3500 (not itemised unfortunatly).
So to start with, the radiator that has never worked which we advised them of before the install to which they informed us the pressured sealed system should sort this. On their advisement as they informed us it was likely the radiator was siezed we replaced the radiator and the valves etc.
So, Dinning room Radiator and their pipework.. which they then joined to 2 older pipes which run under the living room to the rad in the kitchen
and the rad that made me start this topic: The Kitchen rad and pipework (Rad above is being fed from the pipes you see here going into the floor), which as you may be able to tell with the holes, has already been corrected due to the state of it (it looked like a W!). I will also inform you that this is a NEW radiator which was also installed by them
The Blue room.... or Bedroom 1 part 1:
Pipes feeding kitchen rad:
Pipes feeding the Living Room Rad
and the Living Room rad:
so Id thought Id see just how it would look if it was level..
anyway, back too the Blue Room.
The Blue Room's Rad:
Now the pic below isnt that clear so let me just clarify.. the pipes come out the wall on top of each other.... and now the come out so they're next to eachother...
Re-using and old pipe
and also left the old clips from the original single pipe system there.
So the pipes go through that wall and into the shower room:
Am I the only one that thinks it was pointless re-using such a short bit of pipe? anyway... more shower room pics:
hmmm nice and paralell.
Anyway.. it then goes from there and into the study
Anyway. now onto the Hallway. The two white pipes were there from the old system and were reused. Now before this work these two pipes ran down the wall nice and level all the way down which you can still see evidence of from the top...
roll in their handy work to re-use these pipes and look what happens:
pipe has now been bent a comes out from the wall, meaning it no longer fits back into its clip
Bedroom 2 (which is connected from the above hall)
again doesnt fit into its clip
And now for the upstairs where the only work they did to any of the rads was this:
Inserted and valve.
Bathroom:
Still running single pipe setup?!?
And of corse, the new boiler placed in a new position in the loft:
Which when mounting they went to far and their screws came out onto our upstairs landing, which they have "fixed" by cutting the end off one and putting some shiney cover thing over the top, and slightly unscrew the otherones where some dents are still visible:
New Flu out the roof which I can see daylight from...:
And how it looks from the front of the house:
My Dads had a brief word on the phone with him a minute ago but is not going to be here tomorrow as he has work but the installer now knows we are not happy with the state of some of his work. So we shall see if they still turn up tomorrow and put things right...
If they don't turn up/ say they wont put it right, what action would you recommend I take?
In total we paid about £3750 and the initial estimate £3500 (not itemised unfortunatly).
So to start with, the radiator that has never worked which we advised them of before the install to which they informed us the pressured sealed system should sort this. On their advisement as they informed us it was likely the radiator was siezed we replaced the radiator and the valves etc.
So, Dinning room Radiator and their pipework.. which they then joined to 2 older pipes which run under the living room to the rad in the kitchen
and the rad that made me start this topic: The Kitchen rad and pipework (Rad above is being fed from the pipes you see here going into the floor), which as you may be able to tell with the holes, has already been corrected due to the state of it (it looked like a W!). I will also inform you that this is a NEW radiator which was also installed by them
The Blue room.... or Bedroom 1 part 1:
Pipes feeding kitchen rad:
Pipes feeding the Living Room Rad
and the Living Room rad:
so Id thought Id see just how it would look if it was level..
anyway, back too the Blue Room.
The Blue Room's Rad:
Now the pic below isnt that clear so let me just clarify.. the pipes come out the wall on top of each other.... and now the come out so they're next to eachother...
Re-using and old pipe
So the pipes go through that wall and into the shower room:
Am I the only one that thinks it was pointless re-using such a short bit of pipe? anyway... more shower room pics:
hmmm nice and paralell.
Anyway.. it then goes from there and into the study
Anyway. now onto the Hallway. The two white pipes were there from the old system and were reused. Now before this work these two pipes ran down the wall nice and level all the way down which you can still see evidence of from the top...
roll in their handy work to re-use these pipes and look what happens:
pipe has now been bent a comes out from the wall, meaning it no longer fits back into its clip
Bedroom 2 (which is connected from the above hall)
again doesnt fit into its clip
And now for the upstairs where the only work they did to any of the rads was this:
Inserted and valve.
Bathroom:
Still running single pipe setup?!?
And of corse, the new boiler placed in a new position in the loft:
Which when mounting they went to far and their screws came out onto our upstairs landing, which they have "fixed" by cutting the end off one and putting some shiney cover thing over the top, and slightly unscrew the otherones where some dents are still visible:
New Flu out the roof which I can see daylight from...:
And how it looks from the front of the house:
My Dads had a brief word on the phone with him a minute ago but is not going to be here tomorrow as he has work but the installer now knows we are not happy with the state of some of his work. So we shall see if they still turn up tomorrow and put things right...
If they don't turn up/ say they wont put it right, what action would you recommend I take?
