stove is a disaster waiting to happen

[mark_mc]

anyone notice anything wrong
seen this for sale on gumtree and noticed the plumbing of it is wrong and it is a disaster waiting to happen.
if the pump fails bang!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[stevetheplumber]

cold feed and open vent are behind the chimley

 

[mark_mc]

great x ray glasses, where you get them????

 

[Pipes Plumbing]

Oh that's a lovely one!!

There's a fair few tasty mistakes with that... I'm guessing it's not one of the new expensive posh ones with quench coils and interlocked failsafe controls etc fitted that can be sealed and pumped without gravity heatleak circuits?

Timebomb!

 

[peteheat]

Oh that's a lovely one!!

There's a fair few tasty mistakes with that... I'm guessing it's not one of the new expensive posh ones with quench coils and interlocked failsafe controls etc fitted that can be sealed and pumped without gravity heatleak circuits?

Timebomb!

The stoves you describe can be more dangerous than the old type because they depend on a feed from the main water supply to cool them down in the event of the stove overheating.

What can we expect the customer to do when the electricity fails causing the pump to stop when the customer relies on their own well for water?

Of course the pump for the well won't be working without electricity.

 

[TFGplumbing]

what a **** up.

I recall turning up on a job once where some baboon has simpley connected an old SF back boiler to a sealed combi system.

 

[peteheat]

what a **** up.

I recall turning up on a job once where some baboon has simpley connected an old SF back boiler to a sealed combi system.

Yep, there's some real good ones out there, I went to one where the home owner had saved a fortune by taking the flow and return off in 3/4" (22mm) and teed into two 1/2" pipes in the floor of the upstairs bedroom and used the tappings on the other side of the stove to pick up the two pipes on the downstairs circuit, same connections 3/4" off the stove to 1/2" pipes with a pump to circulate downstairs.

The primary system was pressurised oil system, I should have known he was an idiot he wanted 60 tube solar array fitted to a standard 30 gallon cylinder using a heat exchanger.

Needless to say he never got a price from me, I couldn't get out of there fast enough!

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[Best]

Have come across 2 jobs that I recall, that had a large back boilers for open fires joined with the primaries dropping downwards! One man said that he forgot to leave the pump on one Sunday & came back from church to find the " place trembling"!
Strangest one, was a glass fronted fire that was for heating, that didn't actually heat the cylinder! Turned out that the old original direct 3/4" primaries had been used & after disconnecting them from old cylinder, they had been let drop down a lot of inches & added to & connected to new coil! The boiler must have been pressurising into rad circuit! Should add that they had also nailed the floorboards down with 4" wire nails! Split the joists obviously!