do you think someone had a really bad experience with a gas engineer once so went out and designed the condensate trap for a glowworm cxi to get his own back. god i hate that man. or woman, it probably was a woman. maybe she designed the ideal isar too.
glowworm trap
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wait till you have to try and get the saniblock out I believe glow-worm are about to replace 100,00 of them gratis.
A friend fitted a Worcester 24ri condensing boiler recently and the condensate trap split shortly afterwards.
Is that a common problem like the G-W traps or a one off? Are Worcester likely to be willing to send me one free to replace it?
Tony
Is that a common problem like the G-W traps or a one off? Are Worcester likely to be willing to send me one free to replace it?
Tony
I have not had cxi trap splitting. I have not come across any other boiler with the same kind of workings as a cxi has ( I have not seen all boiler traps ) The cxi has a float in the trap that drops and blocks off the discharge point after releasing condensate. This float stops the boiler using the trap as flue. The float gets dirty and often sticks to the bottom of the trap causing the codensate to back up into the boiler.
I did one today did it in just over an hour and a quarter, biggest problem was getting the torq screws out of the bottom, very poor access.ollski said:pierrot said:
They sure are....guess who's got the job of replacing them under warranty
The idea of the Glowworm condensate trap is to release condensate in 'pulses' rather than as continuous drips all the time the boiler is on. Reason: to prevent the condensate line from freezing.
Trouble is, once the beastly float thing is stuck to the outlet with a load of condensate sitting on top of it, there's nothing short of blowing vigorously up the condense drain that will release it!
I've come across a CXI boiler still running with the bottom third of the combustion chamber full of water with it leaking out of the sight-glass!
Another CXI oddity was a reported leak from underneath the boiler but when I got there - no trace. When I got it open there was a suspicious looking 'tide-mark' all the way around the bottom of the casing but evidently whatever had blocked the trap had 'gone away' by itself!
Trouble is, once the beastly float thing is stuck to the outlet with a load of condensate sitting on top of it, there's nothing short of blowing vigorously up the condense drain that will release it!
I've come across a CXI boiler still running with the bottom third of the combustion chamber full of water with it leaking out of the sight-glass!
Another CXI oddity was a reported leak from underneath the boiler but when I got there - no trace. When I got it open there was a suspicious looking 'tide-mark' all the way around the bottom of the casing but evidently whatever had blocked the trap had 'gone away' by itself!
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