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I have now had a second estimate the prices were near identical. The first installer will be fitting a Ariston HE 30 FF combi and the second a Potterton 24 Eco HE combi,which one in your view is the better boiler?

No. :lol: Now to be serious for a moment. Today we had a new engineer visit to give us a quote. He looked at the meter then behind the cooker and at the boiler. He pointed out to the wife the 15mm pipe and said this was too small. The wife told him the last installer had also...

I think i shouldn't take advice from unqualified people. ;)

If he had looked at the pipe at the meter end than told us it needed replacing i would have taken his advice and got on with it. I am really glad i found this forum as there is now a chance be it a slim one that the pipe may not need replacing. I have looked behind the cooker and the pipe...

I am not getting hung up on condensing vs non condensing boilers, i am getting hung up on the fact the guy that did the quote has told us a 22mm pipe running round the rooms (adding more length) from meter to boiler will be up to the job for the condensing combi when the existing 22mm pipe is...

Thanks Chris. What i find really annoying about all this is the guy that came to do the quote was from a big local firm,he never mentioned testing the pipe output ,didn't even look at the meter and just told the wife we needed a new pipe,how could he make that decision without even looking at...

Thanks again. I don't know if this will present a problem ,the old combi does work but the hot water side packed up so has been blanked off, a main medway was installed next to it to provide hot water ,would this effect the test?

Thanks for the misquote,you conveniently missed the bit below. So as i have now been informed the existing pipe "may" be up to the job as the 15mm part could be the last 2 meters. If its not then its back to plan a and having a pipe installed that is up to the job,i never had any...

Thanks great answer. I will make sure the guy that visits tomorrow knows its 22mm at the meter end if he doesn't look. (bearing in mind the last guy didn't)

Can you answer this question. I had a combi boiler and it worked fine on the pipe that is still feeding the boiler and water heater,why is it now not capable of feeding a combi (not condensing) if i could get my hands on one? I have discovered the gas pipe from the meter is 22mm but have...

Thanks for the info. Access to the loft is in a walk in wardrobe and its not very big and having the gas pipe on the front wall of a terraced house would make me nervous, we have out fair share of vandalism in the area it would be too much of a temptation for the head dicks. To be honest if we...

This is a little embarrassing :oops: The wife has just told me the guy who gave the quote didn't look at the meter, (i assumed he had) i have just looked and it has a 22mm pipe coming from the meter and going under the floor. At the garage end it comes out of the wall as a 15mm pipe and...

Wow do you ever have days when you give your shoulder a rest by taking the house sized chip off it? I am neither ignorant or disputing the advice given,I realised straight away that if i have a new "condensing" boiler fitted i will need to get a bigger diameter gas pipe fitted. I then...

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We only have a cooker now that we have gone onto coal in the living room. Its a terraced house and we are in the middle of it. :( I don't think moving the meter would help as i think the main gas pipe runs the length of the front street.

The original quote over the phone was approx £1400 the new quote is over £2000.

We have a wood floor in the living room (5 meters from meter to under stairs cupboard wall) and the rest are concrete. He suggested going under the floor to the under stairs cupboard then taking it up and over the ceiling of the under stairs cupboard ,breaking out running around the top of the...

The original boiler was a combi and ran fine even when the gas fire in the living room was on (now coal fire) and the cooker ,when the hot water side started playing up we blanked it off and installed a water heater next to it. Both worked fine off the 15mm gas pipe. When i asked if i could...