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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2016 17:10:25 GMT
Went to a job today and the husband at the weekend replaced the bathroom radiator and now they have no hot water, anyway I gets there and the cylinder is heated via the AGA and the bathroom rad is a heat sink, he had the rad valves open fully so it was taking all the hot water and not circulating the cylinder. 6XqEngr88r5GlWolCJDi
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Post by endfeed on Nov 1, 2016 17:30:24 GMT
smiley-dance007 dance Money,money,money-must be funny ,living in plumberboys word! Laalaa. 😀😀 bit of abba there for ya!! TAXI im off now feel daft
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2016 17:37:16 GMT
smiley-dance007 dance Money,money,money-must be funny ,living in plumberboys word! Laalaa. 😀😀 bit of abba there for ya!! TAXI im off now feel daft Mmmmmmm!!!! Don't give up the day job. laughing-dog-smiley-emoticon |
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Post by endfeed on Nov 1, 2016 17:40:43 GMT
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Post by endfeed on Nov 1, 2016 18:08:39 GMT
Went to a job today and the husband at the weekend replaced the bathroom radiator and now they have no hot water, anyway I gets there and the cylinder is heated via the AGA and the bathroom rad is a heat sink, he had the rad valves open fully so it was taking all the hot water and not circulating the cylinder. 6XqEngr88r5GlWolCJDi |
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Post by endfeed on Nov 1, 2016 18:11:41 GMT
Ive never worked on a aga. Its comes from cooker to heat hot water/heating?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2016 18:28:21 GMT
The AGA oven heats the cylinder by gravity circulation and the rad is a heat sink, there is no other heating in the house but the set up itself is pretty reliable.  |
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Post by endfeed on Nov 1, 2016 18:50:42 GMT
Can this type of system still be installed or is it not allowed? Was the heat sink just out of balance by the customer?cheers pb😊
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2016 18:55:37 GMT
Can this type of system still be installed or is it not allowed? Was the heat sink just out of balance by the customer?cheers pb😊 The rad was open fullbore by the customer which caused the problem, all heating and hot water systems have to have control this system is old but in my opinion a great set up. |
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Post by tomplum on Nov 1, 2016 19:56:29 GMT
gravity systems work great if the instalation is done right, ( flow sloping up) but the water will travel the easy route, through the rad and back home, it has to be encouraged to go the extra yards up to the cylinder, Once it gets going the heat sink can be opened a bit more, Water's like a lady it needs training what to do, smiley-dance007 dance
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2016 20:07:58 GMT
gravity systems work great if the instalation is done right, ( flow sloping up) but the water will travel the easy route, through the rad and back home, it has to be encouraged to go the extra yards up to the cylinder, Once it gets going the heat sink can be opened a bit more, Water's like a lady it needs training what to do, smiley-dance007 dance laughing-dog-smiley-emoticon |
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Post by crowsfoot on Nov 1, 2016 21:21:13 GMT
Ripped a load of the old cooking ranges out back in the 70s. It was a contract work from a Derbyshire Council. Fireplace in the lounge and a-joined cooker in the kitchen (back to back). The cooking range was cast iron and I smashed them out bit by bit whilst the bricky attacked the fireplace on the other side. The brickwork had to be taken down right up to ceiling level. It was replaced with a 12"x 6" x6" back boiler and fireplace in the lounge whilst the old range in the kitchen side was totally bricked up. The plumber had to muck in mixing up the mortar and carrying in the bricks for the bricky. It was heavy mucky repetitive work that took us 2 days to fully complete then it was onto the next. I couldn't do it these days! Because the council tenants had lost a cooker we also had to provide them with a new one free of charge. Some of the plumbers were asked by the tenants if they would fit a radiator on the wall where the cooking range was to give them a bit of heat (on the side), I always refused because it was still on a direct system. We had some good laughs though in spite of all the hard work..... Those were the days (I think  ). |
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Post by tomplum on Nov 1, 2016 22:15:28 GMT
I've done similar work ripping fireplaces out and the old back boiler units, what a job, soot,brick dust and hard work, sometimes choking on dust and never being offered a cuppa, and like tappy says, we had to 'muck in' with the brickie, but guess what, when the bricking was done he'd fuck off and did't help us plumbers with the pipework, smiley-face-shaking-fist
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Post by crowsfoot on Nov 2, 2016 7:11:13 GMT
You know something even today I can still taste and smell that soot (in my imagination). That would've been in 1978 and you don't think that people would have been still cooking on those old ranges in that day and age because it was in modern times (does that make sense)? To be fair to the brickie compared to the bricking there wasn't that much plumbing involved, however, I would always give him the job of holding the bucket under the primaries whilst I turned the water on to establish what was the flow and return. "Right, turn it off before the bloody bucket overflows!!" he would scream.............like I said we had some laughs . You know something though he could lay those bricks faster than I could carry them, I couldn't keep up with him! Tappy, |
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