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Post by crowsfoot on Jun 11, 2017 19:23:29 GMT
It hasn't exploded (sorry Walter ) but the threads on the expansion vessel fitted onto the cylinder have been stripped flooding the house and bringing down the ceiling in the kitchen below. Just two months ago I had another expansion vessel that had holed in the middle of the night, again flooding the bungalow; it's all under direct mains pressure you see so it all happens in a few seconds. Imagine the panic for the customer when something like this happens. Don't think I would want one of these bloody things in my house! Went on Friday to it and fitting a new cylinder tomorrow. I'll need an hand to get that bloody thing downstairs too. Attachment Deleted
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Post by battle1066 on Jun 11, 2017 20:29:27 GMT
I wonder how that will progress as an insurance claim - is the heating system contents or building fabric?
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Post by tomplum on Jun 11, 2017 21:09:41 GMT
insurance claims on plumbing heating usually are,,,zilth for the problem or the putting right but, they do pay for the damage caused, ie, cieling,walls,carpets and items underwater,
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Post by crowsfoot on Jun 12, 2017 6:10:21 GMT
They are still a relatively new item, so I doubt if insurers are onto them, just yet.
However, say this pattern with the expansion vessels continues on a nationwide scale, the policy will be soon saying "excluding all damage caused by a faulty unvented cylinder".
Or unvented cylinder sir?
That'll be another £1000.00/ year on your policy then!
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Post by rocketmanbkk on Jun 12, 2017 6:32:45 GMT
How have the threads gone?
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Post by crowsfoot on Jun 12, 2017 18:50:58 GMT
A metal expansion vessel screwed directly into a copper boss will quickly start to corrode/rust, it's a problem with them! A very basic plumbing problem at that (The royalty amongst metals is a subject that I've always been fascinated by, not only humans have kings and queens - so do metals!). This is the top of the cylinder boss (where the EV was screwed into). Attachment Deleted Attachment Deleted Expansion vessel Attachment Deleted
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Post by tomplum on Jun 13, 2017 10:35:01 GMT
well said tappy, there is a nobility among metals and steel being the working class low life has to protect the more noble copper knight, so the steel moves to protect the copper and in doing so compromises the cylinder, its poor manufactureing, they should know by now that anything with water moving through it should be non ferous,
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