@DevsAd Thanks a lot for your input, it made me think, and question, and call another person in to try and fix it. I trusted the first guy and went on the assumption that the whole flue would have to be relaid, and that being a second problem with flue, I thought it cannot be done right and thus...
@DevsAd you have a very good eye even with these few details. The flue is pished away from the wall as between bathroom and boiler room there is space for for pipes and there is one (big one) going next to the wall. So the flue needs to fit in little space between that pipe and the bathroom...
Since you people here are so very helpful (thank you!) can you take a look here and tell me if that looks like a good job, and if so - why would it leak? Or if not - what's the problem? (The marks on top of the boiler are from previous leak, that one was evidently wrong in a number of ways...)
@DevsAd Well, at least this time I was smarter and asked them do it in a screw-on boxing so theoretically it should be possible to take boxing off, and put in a new flue. But I'm really worried there is something wicked in the layout of this flat that makes it impossible to do it well. There are...
@DevsAd - that's correct. Installed in 2012, leak was detected during British Gas annual check (part of cover) in 2015, they switched off boiler and left saying flue isn't covered. What exactly was leaking I'm not sure, but it was leaving rust around the flue joints (long run, so it wasn't one...
@SimonG Could you tell me more about this installation? When you say "expensive to run", do you have some numbers on what the gas kWh usage was before the switch and what the electricity usage is (not really asking cost as this will depend hugely on tariffs). What kind of property was that in...
@ShaunCorbs Not sure I understand. Do you mean my electric supply would not be capable of dealing with an electric combi, or simply that a big cable will need to be laid there between the two? If just the latter, that shouldn't (I think?) be a problem, as the fuse board is probably not even a...
@ShaunCorbs TBH, I don't think gas is an option anymore, even though I'd love it to be the case. Even last time when I was fixing that botched installation I had problems finding someone who would take this on (a lot of engineers said - put in electric, now I wish I listened!). According to all...
@Littlespark Take it to outside wall not really an option - it would fall within our bedroom (noise),+ awful lot of piping (gas and water) to go through bedroom and bathroom. That was the reason why it was done with that really long flue to begin with. With the different tarifs, not sure that...
Hello all
I hope it's okay to seek some advice on this forum.
A bit of background first: I live in a flat, built around 2000, originally came with PowerMax boiler, this was replaced with a combi Glow Worm end of 2012. End of 2015 had a leak from the flue, it was decided that it was due to poor...
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