Access requirements for Servicing

[simond]

That looks like a turboMAX to me and it would be virtually impossible to get the cover off. The cover is as deep as the boiler.

The contractors who said they had serviced it must have removed all of the cupboard contents, the cupboard and the fitted shelf underneath. And then put it all back together again.

And you complain about the chap being rude - you've just wasted his time, and he has lost money. I guess the best analogy is that you are invited to a job interview, you drive there with your suit and your CV - only to be told there is no job.

In terms of who is wrong;
1. The original installer did not put it in to manufacturer instructions and has therefore not complied with the gas regulations
2. The various registered businesses who said they have serviced it but plainly have not.

 

[Dan Robinson]

I reckon I could get the car off without farting about with the cupboard.

Still an unnecessary ball ache though.

 

[Arbu]

Yes it is a TURBOmax. I think that previous servicers may have lifted the cover and propped it up to service it. No-one ever removed the cupboard.

I'm still unsure if the man who came is expecting to be paid. If he isn't then he wasn't rude. I was happy to pay him something anyway.

Incidentally the situation you describe about the job interview has happened to me! I went for the job interview and heard nothing from the employers until they wrote back to me four months after the interview to say that my details were very impressive but unfortunately they didn't have any positions suitable for someone with my areas of expertise. Of course they had my c.v. before the interview so I don't know how that worked.

 

[Phill Peck]

I recon u could prise the side out and pull it down and out.

I service many boilers that require cupboards to be removed. Existing customers I'm aware of I charge I little more for service which they are aware of.

New custommers if I turn up I'll attempt to get cover off. If not explain cupboard must come down. I will do it and charge extra, but accept no responsibility for damage. I'll refit the cupboard but explain before I'm not a kitchen fitter so can make no guarantees on refitting cornice etc as it was.
They have the option to let me do it, not have it done or get a chippy in to modify the cupboard and I'll return.

 

[simond]

Over the PCB that you've hinged down first?

 

[Phill Peck]

Over the PCB that you've hinged down first?

Prise it over and around the overlap on the pcb housing and push it back so it stays up. I service one similarly installed and I take the cover downwards to get off

 

[Dan Robinson]

Over the PCB that you've hinged down first?

Prise it over and around the overlap on the pcb housing and push it back so it stays up. I service one similarly installed and I take the cover downwards to get off

What I was thinking. There is a bit of pre-madonnarism in our industry sometimes.

 

[simond]

At least I don't invent my own vocabulary.

 

[Dan Robinson]

The joys of the English language being an ever evolving thing.

 

[DaveHerns]

He's obviously a Madonna fan
Pre-Madonna was when music was better

 

[Dan Robinson]

Was a little the worse for wear at 8:30 last night after a massive family roast dinner.

Primadonna would have been more appropriate.

I try not to think of Madonna now - far to old, mad and leathery.

 

[Arbu]

I recon u could prise the side out and pull it down and out.

I think somebody has done that in the past, as it's slightly bent.

 

[Agile]

Words mean exactly what the writer intends them to mean.

But Dan is better qualified then most here to invent new words!

I hope his kidney problem has settled down. He just went to bed but the medical advice is to immediately visit the doctor. Of course that is difficult now they only give appointments at least seven days ahead. Its easier to get a plumber than a doctor appointment now.

Tony

 

[Dan Robinson]

Can only get appointments on the day in our local surgeries. .

 

[Agile]

In mine you can get an appointment on the day but only with their choice of doctor.

Some of them are not very good! One spent about 20 min arguing on the phone that she did not want to give me indomethacin without allopurinol. She gave in eventually.

To get an appointment with my own doctor takes nearly two weeks. He is obviously seen as one of the best there!

Tony