SIT valve query for Baxi Solo 2

[paulrfrancis]

The guy who services my boiler which is a Baxi Solo 2 wm 30/4 RS has asked me to ask if I can add the mesh filter, size of a 5p from the SIT valve of a later model, I think he said, as my boiler is oldish and doesn't have one.
Also can you buy these filters separately?

 

[Terrywookfit]

Pull the other one!!

If it has worked without one all this time. Why does he (You ) think it needs one??

 

[paulrfrancis]

Genuine reason, National Grid/Balfour Beatty have been doing work at the end of our road and "blew the pipes" through which effected all our side of the road, basically knocked my boiler out, all pipes/injectors full of grit, they trying to say it's not their fault so i'm in contact with them at moment for payment for repair as they messed up. My engineer just wondering if a filter would prevent anything similar happening again.

 

[Terrywookfit]

In line filters with a 200 micron filter are availlable.
This can be fitted into the pipework supplying boiler.

 

[paulrfrancis]

great, where would I be able to get one? Online or shops like B&Q etc?

 

[ianmcd]

why not just contact your gas supplier and DEMAND that they install one on your meter inlet? tell them that you will hold them liable for any damage caused by their failure to do so and they will do it free of charge

 

[paulrfrancis]

good point, they're doing a safety check on my appliances in a couple of weeks, i'll tell them. Although to be fair it wasn't my supplier (Npower), it was National Grid/Balfour Beatty. But I will tell them about it.

 

[algas]

AFAIK there is a filter in the meter govenor, in fact they used to call them govenor filter units GFU'S