Expansion vessel location

[CBW]

It's a Worcester-Bosch boiler and he said taking replacing the internal EV would take much longer and this was the more cost effective option.

Which model? Surely the “internal” one would be better, unless it’s the type I’ve mentioned? Also was it gone or just need pumping up?

 

[thefurz]

OMG!
Are you sure he was qualified Gas Safe?



Paint it white for now maybe?

Ha! Yes.....I Iook at the GSR every year before he does the work.

He doesn't always fill me with confidence but a couple of times he has fixed issues other plumbers have failed to sort out.....so I still get him back

It definitely needs painting or boxing in.

 

[Madrab]

Honestly, if he does work for you every year then just ask him to change it for a grey one at least, it will take him all of 10mins. If he orders one of the flat ones I mentioned, it will disappear. They are roughly the same price too.

To be honest I'd suggest that even a box section up there will look weird and out of place.

 

[gas112]

Maybe not gas qualified, just a plumber, and so wasn't qualified to open up the boiler, so did all he was allowed to do - fit it on the pipe externally.

Yes, you can box it in, it will get no hotter than your pipework and radiators, but aesthetically better if the failed one inside the boiler is replaced.

did you miss that he said serviced the boiler

 

[thefurz]

Which model? Surely the “internal” one would be better, unless it’s the type I’ve mentioned? Also was it gone or just need pumping up?

I think it's a Greenstar 24i Junior.

He said the EV needed replacing.

It looks like an 8l EV, which seems to be about £50....so charging £400 is a decent bit of work!

 

[ianmcd]

Maybe not gas qualified, just a plumber, and so wasn't qualified to open up the boiler

So how did he manage to service the boiler then ?

 

[Madrab]

It looks like an 8l EV, which seems to be about £50....so charging £400 is a decent bit of work!

Oh dear, time to get a new engineer methinks.

That's a bit steep to install a new remote EV. That being said you are London where things tend to be much more expensive but wow, ~£350 to fit that there.

Again, ask him to install a grey one, a 2min look on Fleebay brought up loads of new flat grey ones for less than £50

 

[ianmcd]

@thefurz can you tell us the make and model of the boiler please

 

[Madrab]

@thefurz can you tell us the make and model of the boiler please

I think it's a Greenstar 24i Junior.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

So how did he manage to service the boiler then ?

So, if he was in there servicing the boiler, why did he not replace the internal EV?

 

[CBW]

So, if he was in there servicing the boiler, why did he not replace the internal EV?

We’ve established it’s not internal, but on the rear jig.

 

[ianmcd]

So, if he was in there servicing the boiler, why did he not replace the internal EV?

because it doesnt have one, it has a rear expansion vessel, not an internal one

 

[thefurz]

@thefurz can you tell us the make and model of the boiler please

I think it's a Greenstar 24i Junior.

 

[Madrab]

why did he not replace the internal EV

TBH - if he charged £400 to fit the external one, it may not have been much more to have replaced the one in the rear frame.