loose crappy flue pipe installed by a cowboy!

[adrok]

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??)

 

[Dan Robinson]

Photo's of this I gotta see.

 

[swidders]

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

Huh? horizontally through the ceiling?

don't really understand why the pipe is twin walled ( stainless inner and white outer??)

One to allow air in, one to allow gases out

 

[adrok]

sorry I should be more clear, horizontally through the ceiling void!

Anyway here are some crummy pics.

I know its a shoddy install but I have been blessed with this house

 

[mogget]

Huh? horizontally through the ceiling?

I took it to mean that the flue rises from the boiler, through the plaster, then does a 90 degree turn before reaching the floorboards above, running between the joists until it passes through the wall. I may be totally wrong though.

The gaffer tape and flue pulling out of the boiler sound dangerous and made me think of a house full of corpses.

 

[mogget]

Oops - late again

 

[swidders]

Huh? horizontally through the ceiling?

I took it to mean that the flue rises from the boiler, through the plaster, then does a 90 degree turn before reaching the floorboards above, running between the joists until it passes through the wall. I may be totally wrong though.

The gaffer tape and flue pulling out of the boiler sound dangerous and made me think of a house full of corpses.

Oh.

 

[adrok]

ahem I meant to do this!

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[swidders]

Is it just me or have the pictures not emerged?

 

[mogget]

Is it just me or have the pictures not emerged?

I can see little tiny ones if I click on the links.

 

[mogget]

Here they are

//www.diynot.com/network/adrok/albums/2202

 

[Dan Robinson]

Shrunk in the wash... but they demonstrate a self levetating concentric flue.

Call a CORGI (what will we call ourselves after April?) and see if he can re run the flue with proper connections and support.

[edit]

saw your larger versions - that looks poor. I have seen that tape before but only on telescopic flues like the Suprima's.

Still wouldn't want that in a void in my house without a second opinion.

 

[swidders]

I agree - call a Gas Safety Registered installer

 

[mogget]

I agree - call a Gas Safety Registered installer

It doesn't roll off the tongue so easily, does it?

 

[adrok]

if you click on my profile they are in the album, apologies.

Yes it is a true masterpiece, it has been installed for approx 3 years, guess I'm lucky!

I had to cut my own loft hatch too as some numbnut platerboarded the whole lot with no access!