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I've seen the other threads on this shower. Is it me or is the cartridge unit a hell of a price at £91 inc vat & Carriage..is there anywhere does it for less? Alfredo

Hmm..BG aint perfect. The house I am typing from was under a BG service contract and Landlords Gas Safety Check for ten years when I lived away and rented it out. In ten years not one of them spotted the gas pipe in the cellar is suspended on string from the central heating pipes (not done...

Maybe we all charge too little :lol: Did a Viessmann 100 direct swap, no flush, but cleansed system for a week beforehand, inc magnaclean & 12 TRVs, inhibitor, £2,200 all in. This included the flue and installing an internal condensate drain of course. 5 years warranty on the boiler, parts...

That my friend is a very very good question. My first intro to Viessmann was three or four years ago when our company took over the maintainance of a block with about 15 Vitodens 200 combis in, the installing company having gone under before finishing them all......Well apart from the long...

Like others say..MOST boilers on open systems can be converted to closed systems. What make/model/year of boiler is it? If the manufacturer says yes, its not an unduly expensive exercise, if they say no, then you can't do it. Also as others say, if you do go to a closed pressurised system it...

If this is a Linea 24 of about 10 years old, then its similar to my Linea 28 which started to do just this after nine years faultless service. Its probably the diverter mechanism sticking on the end of the motorised valve. You can buy a service kit, but in all honesty I could have just cleaned...

As to whether a service MUST have a strip down, its never a bad plan, but Glow Worm has said that on its condensing models with a graphite seal they don't think it necessary to take out the burner for five years. When you do, you have to fit a new seal...about £30 or so. On the other hand...

The concord WRS is just a big iron kettle really. There's not a lot of subtlety to them. They've been good in their day, but I wouldn't mourn one being retired as by todays standards they are gas chompers. The first ten minutes is spent heating the vast chunk of iron they call a heat exchanger...

I was on a Viessman course last week. Their system boiler can operate on four pipe with dedicated pipes to unvented cylinder. The clever bit is the plug in thermistor instead of using a cylinder stat which enables the boiler to modulate in response to thermistor values instead of just being...

Most anti seize programmes only kick in if the boiler has not operated in the previous 24 hours, so 99.9% its the preheat, which is overhyped as a feature IMHO. The cottage next door is a holiday cottage with combi in outhouse. That was kicking in and out 24/7 in the cold weather last winter...

Harrogate Damian. Foreign accent, very pushy. I've got a theory the first RGI did show up and wouldn't do what she wanted. I'm suspicious that way. :roll: Alfredo

As its only a drain and refill, its well worth mentioning checking the boiler stat setting, even though the 3 port is the likely one. I've found people getting hot rads on the return often enough to make it worth a quick visual check..Why not for 20 seconds of your time....... Alfredo

So its a full Gas Safety Certificate procedure really, if only to cover yourself. Thats what I thought, but she was very pushy insisting that she only wanted the gas reconnecting. What I didn't mention (and what increased my uneasiness) was that my Plumber merchants have since told me she...

Its most likely a 3 port problem as outline above, but also make sure your boiler stat is not on max as you can get radiators heating off the return pipe if you are bashing more heat into the system than the HW cylinder can absorb. The heat has to go somewhere. Alfredo

Phone message..please ring me to come and reconnect my gas? Phoned back.....I've got someone else coming to do it..Ok, goodbye. Next day (yesterday 4 pm)..She calls again "Other person never showed, can you reconnect my gas?" So I ask "Can you tell me why its disconnected" she says "British...

I was on a Viessman course the other day and their combis have a plastic shock arrester built in. Small vertical tube full of air. Alfredo

Why is an RGI in a council owned property when there will be a gas service provided by the landlord ?..unless its a tenants own appliance. Our procedure on any suspected CO events was..off to hospital for Co test..no exceptions, and meter capped until all clear produced in writing from...

You may well be right. The GSIUR is a bit coy as it refers to legal requirements, but then says the following "In guidance, GSIUR recommends that any verbal notification of an unsafe gas installation should be backed up by written notification that the gas installation is unsafe and that...

In these situations you need a good reliable local company. How do you find one? 1) Ask neighbours/friends who they use and why 2) Ask plumber merchants for two or three names of people they rate as OK. They will give you the names of their best customers/people they like to support. You...

What seems certain is that the original plumber condemned a boiler without issuing the paperwork required by law. If they then start shouting the odds, then indeed I'd be inclined to talk to Gas Safe. I've not seen a £300 gas valve on a domestic boiler, so she's over egging that, but she won't...