Recent content by cropston

I fully appreciate the need for a PRV and the need for the pipework from it to be able to resist steam. No one has commented on what appears to be the lack of any reference in the MI at the time to PRV pipework or to any changes that have occurred subsequently. I was only asking if a warning...

If the pipe in the loft slopes down to its discharge point I can't see how it would have any water in it to freeze. However, I don't know whether he checked this. Is there not a label that gives a warning rather than says "do not use"? The valve might go off but it seems unlikely that anyone...

Presumably you meant to say "is not discharging safely" rather than "is discharging safely." I don't know whether he checked to see whether it was discharging safely or just noted that it was going up.

Yesterday, following an annual inspection, a BG man hung a notice on my mother's combi boiler saying "... in the interests of safety do not use until any faults have been remedied." The "fault" in question appears to be that the pipe from the pressure relief valve is routed upwards into the loft...