Was I mad yesterday, went to fix an Alpha, goodness knows what the original fault had been, probably the flow switch. Symptom writen on the sheet, "no hot water".
I get there boiler in an outhouse has obviously just been moved by the builder of the extension who has just finished.
casing all off it (covered in plaster and building rubble)
So I turned on water underneath to see why no hot water, out it sprang from every orifice. Shut it off.
Have a go henry had obviously had the diverter valve off because the brass manifold was orientated 180 degrees out so the grubscrew wouldn not have contacted the flat and the whole dv could have shot off under mains pressure (and probably did before I got there). All the o rings had been disturbed. The prv was dripping and the aav and the pressure guage. So I changed that lot and as I had to renew all the seals on the DV and the flow pipe where it joins the primary heat ex beacuse a gorilla had been swinging from it, and I changede the dv anyway as it was a full stripdown and Alpha don't mind me doing so.
Then I find because he has clearly flooded everything including the pcb properly, it didn't spark ignight. Anyway Alpha don't mind so rather than nip home 50 miles for the hair dryer I just changed the pcb.
There you go missus your hot water works now, just a quiet word, don't ask that "plumber" to look at it again will you. I'm not complaining, I've fixed it no problem, but it was in a bit of a state, made worse by tampering.
Inside I was livid, it made me late to collect my son from school. That jhust isn't fair to him! If it had been left alone it would have likely been a 5 minute fix, most of them are.
I get there boiler in an outhouse has obviously just been moved by the builder of the extension who has just finished.
casing all off it (covered in plaster and building rubble)
So I turned on water underneath to see why no hot water, out it sprang from every orifice. Shut it off.
Have a go henry had obviously had the diverter valve off because the brass manifold was orientated 180 degrees out so the grubscrew wouldn not have contacted the flat and the whole dv could have shot off under mains pressure (and probably did before I got there). All the o rings had been disturbed. The prv was dripping and the aav and the pressure guage. So I changed that lot and as I had to renew all the seals on the DV and the flow pipe where it joins the primary heat ex beacuse a gorilla had been swinging from it, and I changede the dv anyway as it was a full stripdown and Alpha don't mind me doing so.
Then I find because he has clearly flooded everything including the pcb properly, it didn't spark ignight. Anyway Alpha don't mind so rather than nip home 50 miles for the hair dryer I just changed the pcb.
There you go missus your hot water works now, just a quiet word, don't ask that "plumber" to look at it again will you. I'm not complaining, I've fixed it no problem, but it was in a bit of a state, made worse by tampering.
Inside I was livid, it made me late to collect my son from school. That jhust isn't fair to him! If it had been left alone it would have likely been a 5 minute fix, most of them are.