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I have the original quote and my letter of acceptance to go ahead, dozens and dozens of emails back and forth. I would welcome him to come back and remove the lot and give me my money back!!

If you had been on the HETAS regisitration list you may have got it! ....But only if you are good at talking the hind legs off a donkey and not actually saying anything. :)

I have only just found out he is a member of the AHPC although have already contacted HEATAS, they are waiting for me to initiate a formal complaint, and yes, I have been far too leaniant with the plumber as he does keep coming back to try something else, then something else, then something...

So would I!! It DID have a plastic ball until I got "technically involved" again and pointed out the regs.... again!! The plastic tank has a specification that satisfies the solid fuel stove, all of them do nowadays.... although the plumber couldn't tell me that!! I made a phone call to the...

I'm afraid he does exist, a so called "qualified" plumber, fully certified by HETAS (I checked with them!) for both wet and dry systems, APHC member etc etc etc.... Yes, it certainly is a "project gone wrong", but not of the DIY kind. I wish now that I had "Done It Myself" and saved a...

Sorry, I understand now... No, the only thing I was involved with was saying to the prospective plumbers I would like a new oil boiler connected to my existing new unused wood stove to do hot water and rads with potential to connect to solar in the future... I proposely have not been...

Great, will do that. Cheers....

My childrens lives could depend on it........ . .

LOL... Yes, I have had to get "over involved" in the technicalities.... I will give you one example... A new Worcester boiler was fitted by this plumber and the instructions for fitting it were left with it, he was busy installing something else... I sat down and read through them and it...

Thanks BlueMoonMole... We tried to make sure we were doing the right thing by checking the HETAS website and getting a "certified" plumber. He came through to the property, did a "survey" that cost £75 (refundable) and he came across all confident of his ability to do the job. The other...

I wish, I only wish that was true.... This guys quote was 25%... yes TWENTY FIVE PERCENT more than the MOST EXPENSIVE!! That's what sticks in my throat... Next time, I will get the jobbing, out of the back of the white van man, cash in hand, to come and do it.... Stuff the HETAS certs, (wet...

Anybody had any experience of having to sack a plumber off the job for incompetence? I have an ongoing job that will never progress to completion; the plumber comes to fix one problem and causes two more. He has never refused to come back but 2 years down the line everybody’s patience is...

. . Can't spel - the word is ROUTE not rout.. Dooh! And it looks like I cannot edit the topic title double dooh! . .

. . Ah yes, I can see that if the system was empty and turning the water back on the venting air would be battling to get out whilst the filling water was batting to get in down the same pipe. Unless there was an air bleed elsewhere that could be opened..... So it should work really...

.. I have an open vent CH system and want to know if the following is possible. If you imagine the rads connected to a boiler in a central heating circuit round the house. As it is open vented there is a small header tank in the loft. There are three pipes entering this tank namely 1) the...

. . The ACV thermostat has NO and NC contacts... a relay in essence, albeit temperture controlled as opposed to electrically controlled... When the DHW is "up to temp" could the other contacts on the stat be used to allow the oil boiler to fire up if there is a demand from the CH? Just...

. . Yep, sounds about right, trouble is at the top of the store has a thermostat controlling the oil boiler, sensing secondary water temp, if it is up to temp it wont fire up.... until the CH pump has dragged the heat away round the rads, lowering the temp of the secondary ("drinking"...

There is a couple of sensor pockets in the bottom of the tank that may be useful? 7. Sensor pocket (coil) 8. Sensor pocket (lowest temperature tank) http://www.acv-uk.com/slme.htm Can a programmer take inputs for secondary water temp from one thermostat for DHW and primary water temp...

. . I have an ACV 300SLME thermal store linked an Worcester oil boiler. The oil side has pumped flow and return. http://www.acv-uk.com/slme.htm The radiator circuit is pumped from the primary water in the ACV outer water jacket, the same water as goes through the oil boiler. (The oil...

Good move. . .