medium pressure

[hammers4spanner]

So whats the crack with these medium pressure installations i was led to believe last i done my core gas that these would replace low pressure installs on domestics due to cost and that we needed to know much more about them .
Several years later still yet to see one on domestics or even when a new supply is installed its historically low pressure still being fitted and from chatting to other domestic gsr's they dont seem to come across mop's either.

From what i'm told that on your ccn1 its still very much at the forefront and that they are replacing low pressure


anyone doing domestics come across these much??

 

[kirkgas]

Starting with your CCN1, you are now required to physically check the MP assembly, but I would hardly call it at the fore front, its 10minutes out your life, its covered in the training if you do reassessment, if you go straight in for assessment you need to know the procedures depending on equipment fitted, the new let by pressure range and the new tightness test range
Re where they are at work, it all depends on the pressure in the pipe under the ground versus the demand on the supply, MP was introduced to allow the transporter to supply more houses from the same size pipe by increasing the pressure to MP, so it depends where you work whether you will ever see them can't see the need to change from LP to MP on most sites its only where there has been a new set of houses added to the supply for it to be worth the bother

 

[hammers4spanner]

Ahhh that explains it more i was under impression that low pressure was being made obsolete was wondering why i never come across them .

 

[tamz]

There is a lot of medium pressure up my way. Its been there from before i started working and is all the old single stage with slam shuts much like an lpg. I've only came across a couple of 2 stage regulators.
and some meters are just screwed to the outside wall without a box.
The house i'm working in tomorrow should have one. If i remember i'll take a photo of it.

 

[GrahamM]

Most of the medium pressure installations I have worked on in recent years have now been upgraded to low pressure.
Don't know of any new LP installations cropping up.

 

[lame plumber]

keep popping up around here, just means I have to get the viper out and id the version to get the tests done, normally find them on bigger b&bs or houses on the end of a line up some unmade road

 

[Roger Welton]

Few around here, they tend to be on the edge of towns, here at any rate.

 

[Pssst]

There are plenty of MP installations around and they are mainly to be found in semi rural or rural areas. It depends on what network is available in the locality. It is quite possible to find MP installations in urban areas on domestic properties and certainly on some commercial properties. Easily recogniseable on domestic due to the presence of an MP/LP regulator.

 

[stevetheplumber]

On the latest price list from my blackmailers oops i mean training providers there a seperate ticket for medium preasure so if you come across them regular its going to cost you more to train

 

[hammers4spanner]

Thats hardly surprising more cash to fork out to the money train

 

[Killy Bing]

You don't need the medium pressure ticket if there is an MIV (meter inlet valve) you just do a standard tightness test from there. And use that as your ECV.

you will mind medium pressure rigs where you don't have meter pits.

if you've seen them they are basically filled with medium pressure rigs(yellow ones) bringing it down to low pressure and then off to the houses.

however if there isn't a MIV you are up the creek.

 

[kirkgas]

On the latest price list from my blackmailers oops i mean training providers there a seperate ticket for medium preasure so if you come across them regular its going to cost you more to train

No it isn't, you are talking borroks, you should read their info correctly and you should actually listen when you are at this crappy training, a domestic engineer can work on MP installations, as long as you have read the current version of IGE/UP/1b you will see the updated procedures

 

[kirkgas]

Thats hardly surprising more cash to fork out to the money train

The test procedure has been changed and is incorporated into CCN you won't pay any more

 

[tamz]

Meter installers still need REGT 1 or 2 depending on what size they are doing.

 

[Killy Bing]

There is a qual to install them....

 

[Dotty]

Was going to say when I sat my ccn1 (Pffttttt........) earlier this year it was incorporated. Which was nice because it's all MP over here.

Which means I agree with Kirk again and brings everything back into balance nicely!

 

[mountainman]

Was going to say when I sat my ccn1 (Pffttttt........) earlier this year

I thought that once you passed sixty years of age you didn't need to sit the ccn1 anymore.

 

[stevetheplumber]

No it isn't, you are talking borroks, you should read their info correctly and you should actually listen when you are at this crappy training, a domestic engineer can work on MP installations, as long as you have read the current version of IGE/UP/1b you will see the updated procedures

thought you was on your hols ?

 

[kirkgas]

thought you was on your hols ?

I am, but I don't see me staying off here for 9 weeks

 

[tamz]

I thought that once you passed sixty years of age you didn't need to sit the ccn1 anymore.

The way this shyt hole of a country is going maybe that is wishful thinking.

 

[tamz]

There is a qual to install them....

There is a qual for everything in this game :smile:
Working on MP and moreso IP (which there is no specific acs for) is one of the things i found interesting but the quals as usual teach you nothing. You learn from other guys doing the job and the rest from the school of i hope i don't kill myself/someone doing this.