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    Pump overrun

    Live on a new Taylor Wimpey built estate with Ideal Logic as the predominant boiler - almost ALL the heat only ones have been wired WITHOUT pump overrun, much to the dismay of the occupiers when I tell them that they need to get Taylor Wimpey out to wire it in correctly (AND ensure whoever does...
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    Ideal W CF 450 (GC 41 407 51)

    Thanx. That is what I have been led to believe today, so should be fairly straight forward to convert to a system boiler config. I'd just never seen a gravity cold feed and open vent plumbed directly to a boiler before! I'll be able to clarify fully once I get in the attic and trace pipework...
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    Ideal W CF 450 (GC 41 407 51)

    Hi, Just been out to look at a bungalow with an Ideal W CF 450 (GC 41 407 51) NG Boiler, but notice it has 2 x flow and 2 x return pipes, which I find a little perplexing? The old lady requires a new boiler (clearly this one is ancient at over 25 years, and hugely inefficient), and was hoping...
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    Potterton Promax 24HE Explosive Ignition

    I do believe the electrodes (the whole combustion box door panel with electrodes sticking out of it) were changed prior to my seeing it for the initial exploded burner. The customer had the 'old' combustion box door panel on one side, explaining that their previous engineer had changed it. Are...
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    Potterton Promax 24HE Explosive Ignition

    The boiler fan runs, then there is the tell-tale 'click-click-click-whoomph', though you can't see the spark through the burner 'window'. Sometimes it ignites after a few clicks, other times after a single click. Makes sense that perhaps the ignition pcb is 'late' with spark, but I don't have...
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    Potterton Promax 24HE Explosive Ignition

    Hi. If anyone can help me try and pin down an issue with a customer's Potterton Promax 24HE... I was called out to this just before New Year, as it had literally exploded (well, the burner anyway), and scared the living daylights out of the occupants who thought the front door was being kicked...
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    Gas Safe Probabtion Visit

    yy ...for now. If you don't hold CPA1 by 1 April 2012, your CEN1 and/or HTR1 categories could be suspended by GSR (quoted directly from Nov 11 Gas Safe Engineer Mag - Page 6). CPA1 will, after that date, be a pre-requisite to able to renew CENWAT1 and HTR1. Basically, if you want to do any...
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    Thats another 3 customers lost tonight!!

    I had a guy ring me for an oil boiler service (I'm gas only), so took his details, searched for an oftec guy, rang the oftec guy, gave the details to his wife he acts as his 'PA', and haven't heard a thing back - you'd think at least a courtest 'thanx mate', but no.
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    Acs questions???

    It baffled me that it was the case!
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    Want to be a plumber?

    Good on you, Karen. Good luck with it.
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    Acs questions???

    you get 2 written attempts - the third is an oral questioning during practical assessments, perhaps worded differently to ensure you understand the question (some are not well worded). however, strangely enough, in the written there are true/false questions! If you don't know tick true, and...
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    Acs questions???

    Yup, pretty much everything :)
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    Want to be a plumber?

    It's always going to be slow initially, and work doesn't fall in your lap. I have found avertising is key - you have the training, the qualifications, the registration with Gas Safe, the insurance... and no-one knows you are there! That, and treating customers as you would expect to be treated...
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    Undersized gas pipes- Already well covered on here I know

    Generally slight underpressure for boilers is OK, provided the burner pressure on max is achieved, though the MIs are always the first port of call for advice.
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    landlord responsibilities

    Seconded. Legally - no. Annually is all that is required. bum covering - yes. You never know what has happened as the tenant left, especially if a disgruntled one for whatever reason you may not even been aware of!

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