Hello all, after a bit of advice,
I have a chaffetaux maury combi boiler with a horizontal flue that extends approx 3metres through the ceiling to outside, I have been installing loft insulation and found that the only thing fixing the pipe in places is the cowl outside, the whole assembly is unsupported, needless to say whilst i was wielding the insulation about it got knocked and the gaffa tape that was round it came loose and it started to drip water, obviously rain thats blown in.
My questions are should it have an element of fall to stop water collecting in or does it not matter?
Would it be best to dismantle it all and re-assemble using bracketry making sure all fittings were home etc,
And finally i noticed that the connector on the boiler had no gasket/seal between the top and the pipe( the whole thing lifted up when I wasn't looking!)
Any advice would be great, I do worry about escaping flue gasses and don't really understand why the pipe is twin walled ( stainless inner and white outer??)
I have a chaffetaux maury combi boiler with a horizontal flue that extends approx 3metres through the ceiling to outside, I have been installing loft insulation and found that the only thing fixing the pipe in places is the cowl outside, the whole assembly is unsupported, needless to say whilst i was wielding the insulation about it got knocked and the gaffa tape that was round it came loose and it started to drip water, obviously rain thats blown in.
My questions are should it have an element of fall to stop water collecting in or does it not matter?
Would it be best to dismantle it all and re-assemble using bracketry making sure all fittings were home etc,
And finally i noticed that the connector on the boiler had no gasket/seal between the top and the pipe( the whole thing lifted up when I wasn't looking!)
Any advice would be great, I do worry about escaping flue gasses and don't really understand why the pipe is twin walled ( stainless inner and white outer??)