how much does a potterton flamingo 50s weigh?

[bassmonster]

omg, i nearly broke my back....never anticpated a boiler being that heavy....at least 60kg right?

any other boilers that heavy out there?

 

[Killy Bing]

Come work with me, roger, simon g or bunker.

then you'll feel good lifting one of them!

 

[Ch4 plumbing]

Kingfishers are pretty heavy.......never seen one on the wall though!

 

[Killy Bing]

Or for that matter you can come and carry my tool bag...

 

[bassmonster]

Come work with me, roger, simon g or bunker.

then you'll feel good lifting one of them!

haha, just give me a shout...i could do with picking brains.....:bucktooth:

 

[Roger Welton]

60kg Pah, should do a few oil boilers (or biomass) to man you up

 

[Killy Bing]

We do oil boilers you're looking at dry weights of about 140kg and up
they are floor standers

Wall mounteds you build up but the heat exchangers are about 55 kg and up

I think hrm wall star water jackets are 80kg

Where abouts are you?

 

[Killy Bing]

60kg Pah, should do a few oil boilers (or biomass) to man you up

During my apprenticeship i had a grant 58/70 roll on the trolly on a slight hill and squish me into the wall.

The only time the boss stopped a job over anything.

Next day my legs were like lead
same colour too!

 

[bassmonster]

We do oil boilers you're looking at dry weights of about 140kg and up
they are floor standers

Wall mounteds you build up but the heat exchangers are about 55 kg and up

I think hrm wall star water jackets are 80kg

Where abouts are you?

All of a sudden i feel like a wimp...

from Dagenham mate..more towards goodmayes sides if you know the area...

 

[Killy Bing]

All of a sudden i feel like a wimp...

from Dagenham mate..more towards goodmayes sides if you know the area...

Practically ilford
Dads from romford and mummas from purfleet

 

[Ermintrude]

You can come help me, nearly popped my balls, removed two coal auto feed boilers few years ago 280kg each. Two of us burst our balls moving then to steps then dragged out with a sprinter, bay far the biggest domestic boilers ever stripped out. Loads of r types on first and second floors up here! 3 sections ok, 5 is a horror .

 

[Billy Bob Bob]

haha, just give me a shout...i could do with picking brains.....:bucktooth:

are you the living dead?

 

[Anton]

[h=2]"how much does a potterton flamingo 50s weigh?"[/h]Is that the African Flamingo or the European Flamingo?

 

[bassmonster]

"how much does a potterton flamingo 50s weigh?"

Is that the African Flamingo or the European Flamingo?

for some reason, you just reminded me of this...

New Zealand Deck Commercial. - YouTube

makes me laugh every time....

 

[Ermintrude]

Awesome!

 

[acecharly]

"how much does a potterton flamingo 50s weigh?"

Is that the African Flamingo or the European Flamingo?

I was thinking this was going the monty python route aswell lol

 

[kirkgas]

Here you go

 

[bassmonster]

i wasn't far off guessing the weight...:auto:...thanks Kirk...

 

[kirkgas]

But I'm sure it feels heavier as you try to move it haha

 

[bassmonster]

yes, and especially taking it down a flight of stairs even though there were 2 of us carrying it....i felt sorry for the 2 blokes who took it away in a shopping trolley.....lol

 

[Killy Bing]

haha, which boilers do you install

 

[bassmonster]

Installed vaillant Ecotec plus 418

 

[Killy Bing]

Thats about 30kg?

worcester cdi classics are 47.5 kg to lift to hang the boiler.
Carrying them into lofts was the killer...
thats what i was mainly hanging during my apprenticeship.

got left to do a few hrm water jackets solo too.
Made an excuse to do light work the next day!

 

[bassmonster]

Yes 31kg.

How on earth do you get something of that weight up the loft? Do you have to use some kind of rope or something?

 

[mountainman]

All of a sudden i feel like a wimp...

from Dagenham mate..more towards goodmayes sides if you know the area...

My old stomping ground B-)

 

[Ermintrude]

Rope? Lift on to steps. Then big push straight up and through hatch.

 

[lame plumber]

Rope? Lift on to steps. Then big push straight up and through hatch.

miss joists and watch it drop back down again

 

[Killy Bing]

miss joists and watch it drop back down again

worse still
miss joist with foot and fall onto manhood with an extra 50 kg of weight!!!

 

[Linkyplumb]

Early Worcester combis are heavy, last one I did was a 9.24 and it was around 68 kg

 

[Ray Stafford]

How much does a Potterton Flamingo weigh?

When it was installed, I was probably in my 20s or early 30s. At that time, a Flamingo was a medium weight boiler - just a light upper body workout.

In the intervening 25 years, the old Flamingo has put on weight even faster than me. Now its a really heavy weight.

 

[tamz]

It depends what output they are. Bigger output bigger lump of cast.
Around 180lb tho and seem a lot heavier than they were 30 years ago.

 

[Kev the gas]

I have serviced a GW Ultimate 120 for 11 years, the top of the casing is approx 7 foot off the floor. Every year the customer asks if he needs a new boiler, every year the same answer " NO"

I dread the time I have to lift the beast down.

 

[Roger Welton]

I have serviced a GW Ultimate 120 for 11 years, the top of the casing is approx 7 foot off the floor. Every year the customer asks if he needs a new boiler, every year the same answer " NO"

I dread the time I have to lift the beast down.

Gravity will help on the way down. Out to the van is the more difficult bit

 

[tamz]

Gravity will help on the way down. Out to the van is the more difficult bit

You need to catch it tho or wreck the kitchen.
Putting them up was easier than taking them down.
Standing on the womans 3 legged stool you took a dive at the wall over the worktop and hoped you landed above the bracket and slid it down into position :smile:

 

[lame plumber]

an theres me stripping combis down on the wall to save whats left of my spinal discs when removing old ones