Condensate Joys.

[ScottCheg]

As an RGI, Im loving this weather.

Unbloked 9 condesing pipes today. £80 a go. Probably do the same tomorrow. Oh, and Sunday (double rate).

Scot.

 

[Axel]

£80 to boil a kettle?

 

[ScottCheg]

Yeah. I do re-pipe in inch and a half. With a proper fall.

Scot.

 

[courage best]

Do these blocked pipes cause damage to the boilers, or is it unlikely?

 

[ScottCheg]

No. Every install I have done has not suffered this problem. Pay peanuts... get monkeys. My own Uncle wanted the condensate outside, but I badgered him in to my way of thinking. I run all mine in Inch and a half, inside the propery. I just repair the muppets abortions.

Scot.

 

[Nige F]

so you are doing Proper Plumbing

 

[CMairiD]

We've had 1 1/2" vertical runs freezing.

 

[Nige F]

Waterproof lagging

 

[ScottCheg]

Proper? I left that word alone in the 70's.

You'll be having Schnorbitz giving an opinion soon.

 

[ScottCheg]

We've had 1 1/2" vertical runs freezing.

Re-run inside. Temporary of course.

Scot.

 

[Axel]

Could use pipe heat tape???

What do they do in Poland?

 

[mickyg]

What do they do in Poland?

Same as they do in Germany. Boiler, washing machine etc...all in a plant room with purpose provided waste outlets internally. In small properties such as flats etc, they have larger bathrooms with the same thing. Unforutnately show a small room downstairs to a developer in a UK and it becomes a WC or upstairs it becomes a "box room" or study. Form over function thats us brits

 

[Whitespirit66]

Could use pipe heat tape???

What do they do in Poland?

Do they have plumbing in Poland? Suppose they must - enough of their blokes over here!

 

[Axel]

I woke up this morning with an invention in my brain - an automatic syphon trap for condensate pipes - like that used on a urinal cistern. A small 'mini' tank fills up to a level at which it then syphons out all in one 'flush', so that condensate then exits to the outside pipe in short bursts, rather than the steady trickle that causes an icicle to grow in the pipe.

 

[sooey]

Very good, you'll be inventing the wheel next, and discovering fire.