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    5 month old Vaillant boiler issue, installer acting dodgy - please help!

    All - thanks for your reply, appreciate your help. I gathered his feedback from officials within the building who told me that over the years he has installed many boilers in our block of flats. he is known to be reliable and I see him in this block 2 weeks in a month. he does a lot of work...
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    5 month old Vaillant boiler issue, installer acting dodgy - please help!

    Hi tony - YES. the installer & his assistant finished the job on a sunday. next day building mgmt got in touch with me (im the owner) and asked me to send gas safety documentation. I asked this installer about it. in evening he visited the property along with a gas engineer who is gas safe...
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    5 month old Vaillant boiler issue, installer acting dodgy - please help!

    and yes with his skills, bucket is a good idea also
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    5 month old Vaillant boiler issue, installer acting dodgy - please help!

    here is the picture of condense pipe coming out of the boiler. the design is similar to what you have portrayed as 'current'. im not familiar with plumbing diagram legend. the current deisgn you have is better than what the actual one is. in your current representation, incoming water has to...
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    5 month old Vaillant boiler issue, installer acting dodgy - please help!

    the person who signed visited the property at the end of installation work. he didnt speak with me, just asked the questions to the installer. he then issued a certificate and left. certificate is issued in my name. I can see an issue here..
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    5 month old Vaillant boiler issue, installer acting dodgy - please help!

    he gave me a gas safety cert issued by another person who is gas regd. but im not able to locate this installer in gas safe. does that make you think anyhting about safety? he hasnt registered the installation with local authority as well.. Also - this "double trapping" - what will I need to...
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    5 month old Vaillant boiler issue, installer acting dodgy - please help!

    scottishgasman, thanks for the advice. just out of interest- why do you say that i shouldnt call gas safe for an opinion?
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    5 month old Vaillant boiler issue, installer acting dodgy - please help!

    thanks hertsboiler. the boiler is wall mounted about 5 feet away from the outlet pipe. the boiler is placed at around 5.5 feet above floor. so for the whole pipe to fill, it would take sufficient volume. my installer said "oh dont tell them anything about this as the blockage in pipe which is...
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    5 month old Vaillant boiler issue, installer acting dodgy - please help!

    hertsboiler - even if there was water in the boiler? when the boiler was opened up, in the metallic chamber which I was told is designed to collect any spillages did have some water. are you suggesting this was gas valve from day 1? in that case i should be able to get this covered under warranty?
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    5 month old Vaillant boiler issue, installer acting dodgy - please help!

    Thanks all for the reply. posting the picture here, im based in docklands, London. the white pipe (on top) is coming from the boiler and joining the outlet through that white thingy. the reason for congestion he gave was ' perhaps when the flat was constructed 15 years ago, the builders left...
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    5 month old Vaillant boiler issue, installer acting dodgy - please help!

    All, in may, 2015 i had a vaillant ecotec plus 615 boiler installed. Few days ago, we noticed water dripping (very slowly) from the boiler. I called the boiler installer who said he will come around in 2 days. he didn't ask me to switch the boiler off. in 2 days boiler shut down on its own...
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