Frozen condensate pipes everywhere you go
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Where is the water in a soil stack? Its running water.
I can't believe that. Its been as low as -18 here and no soil stacks frozen.
My basin/bath drains froze though but that was installer error which I had to rectify myself.
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Where is the water in a soil stack? Its running water FFS.
Have you seen one froze?
3 last week.
constant dripping internal overflow from the cistern,dripping tap and poor installation practice all contribute to it.
just remember the basics sh1te runs downhill.they should not block either but they do.
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no, probably just cos it's very cold and there is water in it.
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My Ideal E-type is still going just fine. I've been advised that I could save £200-300 a year by switching to a nice new boiler. That should almost cover the annual servicing, endless spare part renewal and occasional repair callout which modern boilers all seem to need.
I'd rather spend it on the gas and keep the reliability.
Perhaps the modern state of the art [or should that be arc] boilers have an in built electronic device to breakdown when most needed, for it seems that much of the promised saving of gas is made when they are not working.
No doubt in the coming weeks/months the manufacturers will blame the installers and vice versa but until its compulsory for all new boiler installs to be checked, tested and passed by someone other than the person that installs it this crackpot carry on will continue.
My Ideal E-type is still going just fine. I've been advised that I could save £200-300 a year by switching to a nice new boiler. That should almost cover the annual servicing, endless spare part renewal and occasional repair callout which modern boilers all seem to need.
I'd rather spend it on the gas and keep the reliability.
Perhaps the modern state of the art [or should that be arc] boilers have an in built electronic device to breakdown when most needed, for it seems that much of the promised saving of gas is made when they are not working.
No doubt in the coming weeks/months the manufacturers will blame the installers and vice versa but until its compulsory for all new boiler installs to be checked, tested and passed by someone other than the person that installs it this crackpot carry on will continue.
There shouldn't be any water in it - it should run clear.
You ought to go back and check what you've done. You might have a dripping overflow or similar issue.
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Apologies - I thought they were stacks you'd fitted.
I think we're in violent agreement here - soil stacks shouldn't be freezing if they, and everything plumbed into them, have been installed correctly. Plumbing a non-syphoned condensate into a soil stack that could lead to freezing is (e.g. plumbing into a non-vertical section) is an example of incorrect installation given the inevitability of problems.
Mathew
Where exacty did they freeze?
Fact of the matter is that persistant -10C temperatures are no longer a rarity hence the situation needs to be considered and accomodated to prevent problems. Plumbing into horizontal sections of soil pipes is not acceptable.
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Fact of the matter is that persistant -10C temperatures are no longer a rarity hence the situation needs to be considered and accomodated to prevent problems. Plumbing into horizontal sections of soil pipes is not acceptable.
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one was plumbed inside on a hidden section pipe which presumably led to the stack from a toilet and shower. it seemed to be frozen outside at ground level a long way from anything but the kitchen sink.
another froze outside at ground level. the condensate connection was within a metre of the frozen section but was connected directly under the sink u-bend.
the isar one was frozen pretty much everywhere.
only one of those was in a position that i would consider exposed.
anything that was plumbed into a roof drain pipe froze last week and probably won't defrost 'til well into next month now. i think we dipped to -20 this week at one point.
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