Recent content by 3phemeral

Is that a pipe for excess hot water/steam to be removed from the old hot water system (using hot water tank/cylinders)? That sounds very plausible in any case!

We live in the top floor of a tenement building and spotted these pipes which protrude a fair bit through the building's roof - they are definitely pipes, about 22mm width, look to be copper, and they sound hollow when tapped (and can be moved/are light). They run through the attic and then...

Hi all, Many thanks for your input; I challenged the electrician on this: he says he then checked with the boiler manufacturer who confirmed it doesn't required equipotential bonding. That's £75 and some unnecessary work saved :) Hopefully this thread will be useful to find for anyone in a...

Hi, We had a Worcester Bosch 4000 boiler fitted a few months ago - all pipes go into the boiler through a mounting plate. We recently got a visit from an electrician for some work and he says the boiler needs to be bonded ('equipotential bonding') using 5x bonding clamps; the previous 20+ year...

Hi, We had a Worcester Bosch 4000 boiler fitted a few months ago - all pipes go into the boiler through a mounting plate. We recently got a visit from an electrician for some work and he says the boiler needs to be bonded ('equipotential bonding') using 5x bonding clamps; the previous 20+ year...

Thanks for your prompt reply @oldbuffer. 1. I get your point about being able to fill the system: given there's no drain off valve, how should he have chemically cleaned the system? 2. He filled out Sentinel in the paperwork - but I don't believe any was added... 3. Do you recommend adding...

We had a new Worcester Bosch combi boiler fitted several weeks ago to replace the (20+ year) old boiler. To my knowledge, the existing system (pipes/radiators - all in place already and likely as old or older than previous boiler) weren’t flushed. I asked about flushing during installation but...