Before I make this post, I would like to say that I am almost purple-faced with rage ... !!!
We bought this house last year and we knew that there were quite a few DIY snags that needed fixing, but this one just about takes the jammy sodding dodger! The central heating pump has been making odd noises for a while, then it just plain conked out. A plumber friend of ours came round and confirmed that it is definitely the pump and not the boiler. It just makes a funny noise and doesn't pump the water round.
Then the fun and games began ... where can the pump be? Where's the source of the funny noise? Eventually we found it ... behind a sodding WALL!!! I have an inspection mirror for my car, so I took up a corner of carpet, lifted a board, popped in the inspection mirror, and sure enough, there it is, tucked up in the most inaccessible place imaginable, between two stud walls. If you stick your ear against the wall, you can hear it grinding away.
Who the hell on planet Earth sticks a central heating pump in a place where you have to make a big hole in an internal wall to get to it??!!! As I said, I'm just about ready to strangle the previous owner.
Is it ok to leave the old pump in place and put a new one where a sensible, sane person would put it, or will I have no choice but to take down part of the wall, take out the pump, then replace, replaster and repaint the wall?
We bought this house last year and we knew that there were quite a few DIY snags that needed fixing, but this one just about takes the jammy sodding dodger! The central heating pump has been making odd noises for a while, then it just plain conked out. A plumber friend of ours came round and confirmed that it is definitely the pump and not the boiler. It just makes a funny noise and doesn't pump the water round.
Then the fun and games began ... where can the pump be? Where's the source of the funny noise? Eventually we found it ... behind a sodding WALL!!! I have an inspection mirror for my car, so I took up a corner of carpet, lifted a board, popped in the inspection mirror, and sure enough, there it is, tucked up in the most inaccessible place imaginable, between two stud walls. If you stick your ear against the wall, you can hear it grinding away.
Who the hell on planet Earth sticks a central heating pump in a place where you have to make a big hole in an internal wall to get to it??!!! As I said, I'm just about ready to strangle the previous owner.
Is it ok to leave the old pump in place and put a new one where a sensible, sane person would put it, or will I have no choice but to take down part of the wall, take out the pump, then replace, replaster and repaint the wall?
