Gas fire and gas cooker in same room?
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I'll put both ovens and all 8 rings on the cooker on full blast at the same time as the fire (and any other gas appliances using the same 15mm feed). If they burn away nicely then I'll assume the supply is adequate.
My house is a creaky, draughty old Victorian townhouse where you freeze to death if you stand still for longer than 2 minutes. The room is huge with a high ceiling and large windows with glass that rattles in the frames. The gap under the door is so big that my 8 month baby can just about crawl into the room with the door shut. That should be adequate enough ventialtion.
Perhaps you should get a monkey in to do it.
Like I said, they cost a fortune.
greengoddess please leave the site and never come back
how will you test for leaks? the good old corrosive fairy liquid. honestly people like you get me so annoyed you cant put a price on life!!!
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All the Gas registered people will be laughing at you fitting a cooker like that to a 15 mm supply which is shared with your gas fire.
If only you knew about gas supplies you would realise just how stupid you are being!
Well a lot seems to have happened since I last posted & 1:30, including a post deleted & my contacting admin; did they reinstate after I queried having 2 blank links
You "gas guys" have obviously stepped in & rightly so but only on gas installation issues, suitability of current supply & the stupidity of uninformed gas DIY, which I generally agree with. Greengoddess clearly doesn’t believe in regulation, following it or even talking constructive advice & if he goes ahead, deserves all he gets. No-one else, however, has commented on the open flue appliance/extractor fan in the same room issue which is where I was comming from. I have an interest in understanding what you can & cant do, albeit not on a gas appliances, so comments would be much appreciated.
You "gas guys" have obviously stepped in & rightly so but only on gas installation issues, suitability of current supply & the stupidity of uninformed gas DIY, which I generally agree with. Greengoddess clearly doesn’t believe in regulation, following it or even talking constructive advice & if he goes ahead, deserves all he gets. No-one else, however, has commented on the open flue appliance/extractor fan in the same room issue which is where I was comming from. I have an interest in understanding what you can & cant do, albeit not on a gas appliances, so comments would be much appreciated.
Richard you have correctly pointed out the current requirements for ventilation.
Gas registered people have responded by pointing out that a gas qualified person is required to visit and assess the situation.
The OP thinks that he knows everything and seems hell bent on risking the life of himself, his family if he has one and perhaps close neighbours!
Gas registered people have responded by pointing out that a gas qualified person is required to visit and assess the situation.
The OP thinks that he knows everything and seems hell bent on risking the life of himself, his family if he has one and perhaps close neighbours!
Well, the last Corgi engineer I had in my home used a lit match and held it next to the joint to test it for leaks! That just proves to me what a load of cowboys the Corgi brigade are.
Personally, I was thinking of first using some leak detector spray around all joints. Seccondly, I would double check the entire system using my manometer.
Incidentally, I did once have a gas leak in my home. I contacted one of the Corgi comedians and, after confirming I had a leak (which was fairly obvious due to the dead budgie in the corner of the room and the horrendous smell of gas), proceeded to say that the minimum charge for locating the leak would be £300 and the sky was the limit if the leak was hard to detect.
He even suggested stripping and re-piping the whole house for gas "just to make sure"! I obviously told him where to go, went out and bought my own manometer, traced a few gas pipes with the old leak detection spray and found the leak within 30 minutes.
And where was the leak? It was a dodgy soldered joint that had been installed 9 months earlier by yet another Corgi conman!
So you see, I have no patience for the orange shield club. They take a fortune out of your pocket and do half a job that I could do better myself.
Well anyone can make up stories on an internet forum.
But assuming you are telling it like it was, that just means you've met a bad tradesman maybe more. To tar everyone with the same brush on that limited experience shows a lack of maturity and judgement, to say the least. You haven't got a clue what needs doing and why, so the only advice I personally would give to an idiot like you is to get someone who has.
But assuming you are telling it like it was, that just means you've met a bad tradesman maybe more. To tar everyone with the same brush on that limited experience shows a lack of maturity and judgement, to say the least. You haven't got a clue what needs doing and why, so the only advice I personally would give to an idiot like you is to get someone who has.
Troll alert!
Why rise to the bait, its a blatent wind up
Why rise to the bait, its a blatent wind up
Am I really the only one to spot the work of a troll in the first 4 posts of gg. Come on fellers he's winding you in.
No-one else, however, has commented on the open flue appliance/extractor fan in the same room issue which is where I was comming from. I have an interest in understanding what you can & cant do, albeit not on a gas appliances, so comments would be much appreciated.
Hi Richard,
Like I said earlier, I will be ignoring the building regs altogether and won't be bothering with any sort of forced extraction for the cooker. That will mean the extraction/open flue for the fire will remain unaffected.
I'm also not a troll. I came on here for a bit of helpful advice. Richard has been most helpful but it sounds like the orange shield boys are out to try and put off another competent DIYer so they can cream more money out of the public.
Regarding the gas, I'll just tee off the 15mm gas supply pipe to the fire and run it straight to the cooker, there's no harm in that, it's all coming from the same place. How on earth that can be considered a danger is beyond me.
i cant believe i had to read this many posts to get to the first one saying it is a wind up, c'mon guys/gals
OP seems determined to do the installation him/herself regardless of all the prophets of doom , but it might be an idea to get a RGI to do a landlords test after installation on the pretence of letting the property. It does not cost that much [ so he/she would still save a bit of wedge] and at least that way the installation would have an onsite check/test by an independent third party, which is more than can be said for most if not all RGI installations.
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