have just spent day 2 sorting out a friends friend in Barnes
she has been ripped off by a very large West London Plumbing Company
first they came to service her boiler.after they left she could smell gas so called them back
arsewipe No.2 comes and condemns the boiler,turning off the isolator below.
still leaking gas !
at this point my friend rings me and i go up to have a look.
first i find the union nut on the top of the gas isolator leaking so tighten it up, then i find another leak 1" above where the pipe is screwed into an elbow.
this could only have been done deliberately as it would never have leaked of its own accord.
sorted that one with a turn of PTFE gas tape and refitted
then i find a third leak on the valve itself (that could be genuine as valve had been turned on/off )
they gave her a quote for a new boiler for over 2.5K
having sorted the leaks i checked the boiler (potty flamingo) and found NOTHING wrong with it.
she then said that 1 of the 4 rads wasn't heating (which is why i was back there today) she had asked them to look at it but the declined giving her a load of bull about this, that and the other!
having spent 5 hours on it today it appears to be a blockage between hall and lounge so back again on sunday to sort it out.
so far i have found blocked cold feed, blocked expansion pipe, sludge in the 2 rads and minimal flow round the rads, then found the water tank is also the F&E tank!! quality!!
So H2 plumbing you get the award of COWBOY OF THE WEEK!
she has been ripped off by a very large West London Plumbing Company
first they came to service her boiler.after they left she could smell gas so called them back
arsewipe No.2 comes and condemns the boiler,turning off the isolator below.
still leaking gas !
at this point my friend rings me and i go up to have a look.
first i find the union nut on the top of the gas isolator leaking so tighten it up, then i find another leak 1" above where the pipe is screwed into an elbow.
this could only have been done deliberately as it would never have leaked of its own accord.
sorted that one with a turn of PTFE gas tape and refitted
then i find a third leak on the valve itself (that could be genuine as valve had been turned on/off )
they gave her a quote for a new boiler for over 2.5K
having sorted the leaks i checked the boiler (potty flamingo) and found NOTHING wrong with it.
she then said that 1 of the 4 rads wasn't heating (which is why i was back there today) she had asked them to look at it but the declined giving her a load of bull about this, that and the other!
having spent 5 hours on it today it appears to be a blockage between hall and lounge so back again on sunday to sort it out.
so far i have found blocked cold feed, blocked expansion pipe, sludge in the 2 rads and minimal flow round the rads, then found the water tank is also the F&E tank!! quality!!
So H2 plumbing you get the award of COWBOY OF THE WEEK!