I correctly read the "report" but it was not stated who had written it.
Many posting on this forum have not been on a technical report writing course!
Sabre Boiler Producing High Carbon-Monoxide Readings
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I correctly read the "report" but it was not stated who had written it.
Many posting on this forum have not been on a technical report writing course!
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Pay Vokera engineer's visit, and don't pay for your own engineer.
£382 or the £129 for a 'non-fault fee'?
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Like I said, sorting the combustion is fixing a fault. Albeit not necessarily with the boiler in the strictest sense of the word.
Now Dan is being confusing.
If the CO in the flue of the boiler is out of tolerance then it is a fault and it is dangerous and needs boiler turning off or fixing.
So readjusting is a simple job and would be a "repair".
But the unknown is why your own engineer did not want to adjust it to correct the fault.
It also seems the room CO alarm had gone off and probably as a result of unventilated cooking if in a kitchen. Or the alarm is just old and needs replacing.
Tony
If the CO in the flue of the boiler is out of tolerance then it is a fault and it is dangerous and needs boiler turning off or fixing.
So readjusting is a simple job and would be a "repair".
But the unknown is why your own engineer did not want to adjust it to correct the fault.
It also seems the room CO alarm had gone off and probably as a result of unventilated cooking if in a kitchen. Or the alarm is just old and needs replacing.
Tony
OP: what is your original engineer charging you? Have you paid him? Ask him why he shut the boiler down? How did he get these readings? Is his analyser working properly? When was it last calibrated?
As the Vok engineer seems to say on his report that it was readjusted then it seems to be very likely that it was out of adjustment.
So the first engineer needs to be asked why he did not adjust the CO to bring it within the spec for safe working.
If the Vok engineer was really only there for 6 minutes then perhaps there is a kind of argument that it was not a significant fault and perhaps only a simple adjustment and that only £129 was justified.
So the first engineer needs to be asked why he did not adjust the CO to bring it within the spec for safe working.
If the Vok engineer was really only there for 6 minutes then perhaps there is a kind of argument that it was not a significant fault and perhaps only a simple adjustment and that only £129 was justified.
if your original engineer used his analyser i wonder why he didn't adjust the boiler while he was doing it , because he didn't know how too
just pay vokera and just think vokera has probably saved you money in the end from either a new boiler ( suggested ) or repairs from your original engineer
How many times does it have to be said, it does not matter how the boiler was burning or how it was set up or what needs adjusting it should never set off a CO monitor it is a room sealed appliance , the CO monitor is there as a last line of defence not to tell you how efficiently the boiler is burning
The alarm is three years old, likely badly positioned and cannot be relied upon... That's a given and probably was the reason for the callout in the first place! BUT... Why did the first call engineer detect issues with the CO??? I smell a rat and so did his analyser!!!
A few reasons,
1/ kitchen area, unventilated and a build up of CO during cooking.
2/ none calibrated FGA
3/ chancer that wants to sell a new boiler as he's light of work.
4/ FGA was on a high CO job previous and either not purged or CO cell is now screwed.
Jon
probably because all he did was shove his analyser in flue and didn't know how to adjust boiler to bring within range ( or not calibrated )
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