Extending Safety Discharge Pipe for EWI

[DevlinT]

Hello everyone

I’m planning (in my mind for now) an external wall insulation project. Just under my boiler flue I have copper safety discharge pipe (the one that curls back into the wall). It only comes out several centimetres. Clearly this is not going to work with EWI which will project the wall at least 12cm further out.

Is extending this copper pipe a simple job for a qualified plumber or is it actually more complex that it appears?

Thanks

 

[muggles]

Should be reasonably simple for the person who's extending your boiler flue to do this at the same time

 

[BlueLoo]

Hello everyone

I’m planning (in my mind for now) an external wall insulation project. Just under my boiler flue I have copper safety discharge pipe (the one that curls back into the wall). It only comes out several centimetres. Clearly this is not going to work with EWI which will project the wall at least 12cm further out.

Is extending this copper pipe a simple job for a qualified plumber or is it actually more complex that it appears?

Thanks

Probably the exact opposite.
A complex job for a simple plumber and more simple than it appears.

 

[DevlinT]

Brill, thanks both. Get someone competent. I guess that is the key.

 

[BlueLoo]

Brill, thanks both. Get someone competent. I guess that is the key.

Do it yourself.
Super easy.

"Gas safe" virtue signalling in 5, 4, 3...

 

[muggles]

Do it yourself.
Super easy.

"Gas safe" virtue signalling in 5, 4, 3...

And the flue?

 

[BlueLoo]

And the flue?

I've had the jab, thanks.