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Hi,
I recently was informed by my plumber that there was a loss of pressure between the gas box and that at the boiler (some 15 meters away) and that I had to have new pipes fitted between the two. British Gas came out and also advised this. The existing pipes in the house are the smaller (9mm I think). Should these be the larger 15mm ones internally and would installing these solve the pressure problem? I would have thought smaller pipes would give greater pressure?...or is it a volume of gas thing...hence larger 15mm pipes are needed? We have used the existing 9mm quite happily for 7 years now with no problems but as we are renting out the property I am advised that this needs to be sorted or we wont get our gas certificate renewed? Is this correct? Is this something that would warrant not issuing a certificate?
I was concerned we had a leak of gas but I checked this by switching off all gas to the property (just the boiler) and left the gas meter for an hour...the digital meter did not move (so I think/hope we don't have a leak).
Grateful if anyone can shed some light on the above.
Thanks very much.
Steve
I recently was informed by my plumber that there was a loss of pressure between the gas box and that at the boiler (some 15 meters away) and that I had to have new pipes fitted between the two. British Gas came out and also advised this. The existing pipes in the house are the smaller (9mm I think). Should these be the larger 15mm ones internally and would installing these solve the pressure problem? I would have thought smaller pipes would give greater pressure?...or is it a volume of gas thing...hence larger 15mm pipes are needed? We have used the existing 9mm quite happily for 7 years now with no problems but as we are renting out the property I am advised that this needs to be sorted or we wont get our gas certificate renewed? Is this correct? Is this something that would warrant not issuing a certificate?
I was concerned we had a leak of gas but I checked this by switching off all gas to the property (just the boiler) and left the gas meter for an hour...the digital meter did not move (so I think/hope we don't have a leak).
Grateful if anyone can shed some light on the above.
Thanks very much.
Steve