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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2018 19:45:48 GMT
What's the worst you've ever had ? Can be either on a heating system or hot and cold supply.
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Post by tomplum on Dec 5, 2018 19:48:24 GMT
fucking hell, I could be here all day with that one, ponder
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2018 19:58:00 GMT
fucking hell, I could be here all day with that one,  Me too  |
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Post by battle1066 on Dec 5, 2018 20:00:58 GMT
I find any system with and F & E tank means trouble, especially if it's a full drain down!
My worst experience of it took nearly a year to cure (relative love job, first house, no money) since last owner had already bypassed a choked supply and teed into the vent to use as the new supply point from the tank.
Basically, some radiators would work then act up etc or a partial blockage of the vent would cause the boiler to bang like no tomorrow. Or sometimes part of downstairs would function by shifting a blockage and upstairs would need rebleeding - nothing hard just a never ending story.
So just a ball ache, cause money issues means family love is top of the list.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2018 20:06:26 GMT
I reckon the worst one on a heating system I had was at a medium sized house but it sat on the side of a hill and the rooms where at all different levels, it had two different staircases and the house had lots of little add on's. The f&e tank was up in a cupboard so not much head on it. I drained down and removed the bathroom rad and repiped and fitted a towel radiator, then refilled the system. It was like air lock city, fucking nightmare.
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Post by battle1066 on Dec 5, 2018 20:09:13 GMT
I reckon the worst one on a heating system I had was at a medium sized house but it sat on the side of a hill and the rooms where at all different levels, it had two different staircases and the house had lots of little add on's. The f&e tank was up in a cupboard so not much head on it. I drained down and removed the bathroom rad and repiped and fitted a towel radiator, then refilled the system. It was like air lock city, fucking nightmare. There such a time suck and rarely return good money - you end up wishing you'd just sent them twenty quid and say don't call again. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2018 20:14:52 GMT
I reckon the worst one on a heating system I had was at a medium sized house but it sat on the side of a hill and the rooms where at all different levels, it had two different staircases and the house had lots of little add on's. The f&e tank was up in a cupboard so not much head on it. I drained down and removed the bathroom rad and repiped and fitted a towel radiator, then refilled the system. It was like air lock city, fucking nightmare. There such a time such and rarely return good money - you end up wishing you'd just sent them twenty quid and say don't call again. Yeah we all get caught out now and again, with this house I ended up filling it up backwards slowly and got there in the end. I've had some nightmares with hot and cold supplies in the past but I find the wet vac soon sorts them out now days. |
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Post by tomplum on Dec 5, 2018 20:35:18 GMT
this one was't an air lock, A new build house that the contractor i supped from took over because the original contractor went bust, We had all kinds of problems,
Anyway, all big 5 bedroom detatched houses and i went to one complaining the rads did not get hot enough, It probably needs balancing said the gaffer, In other words, don't spend all day there because we are mowed out with other work, So a quick look told me either there's a blockage or the boilers not big enough, I reported back, The gaffer went himself and said to me, The boiler was well big enough, all the pipes are new, its something simple, go and suss it, Now I'm on price work, I don't wanna be spending time in a occupied house moving stuff about and solving other persons fuck ups when I can be making money in empty new builds making a good living, so I would not go back, So he sent others in, they mostly did the same, nobody wants to fuck about when there's money to be made, but the owner was putting the squeese on him, and finally he put a team, me and two others in at weekend when the agreed to be out of the way, he agreed to pay us £600 each to sort it, this was about 1996 ish, good coin for the time,
We spent all day Saturday and sussed it must be a blockage but where, So Sunday started cutting and testing lenghts of main circs, and sure enough, one of the others cut out a 22 mm elbow and noticed a 15mm elbow inside the 22mm UREKA was the cry, We put it all back together and left the heating on, the house was warm as toast, finding that elbow was luck, pure luck,
everyone won on that one, we got a good payout, the gaffer claimed the brownie points from the housing developer and the owner of the house got a warm house,
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2018 20:40:40 GMT
this one was't an air lock, A new build house that the contractor i supped from took over because the original contractor went bust, We had all kinds of problems, Anyway, all big 5 bedroom detatched houses and i went to one complaining the rads did not get hot enough, It probably needs balancing said the gaffer, In other words, don't spend all day there because we are mowed out with other work, So a quick look told me either there's a blockage or the boilers not big enough, I reported back, The gaffer went himself and said to me, The boiler was well big enough, all the pipes are new, its something simple, go and suss it, Now I'm on price work, I don't wanna be spending time in a occupied house moving stuff about and solving other persons fuck ups when I can be making money in empty new builds making a good living, so I would not go back, So he sent others in, they mostly did the same, nobody wants to fuck about when there's money to be made, but the owner was putting the squeese on him, and finally he put a team, me and two others in at weekend when the agreed to be out of the way, he agreed to pay us £600 each to sort it, this was about 1996 ish, good coin for the time, We spent all day Saturday and sussed it must be a blockage but where, So Sunday started cutting and testing lenghts of main circs, and sure enough, one of the others cut out a 22 mm elbow and noticed a 15mm elbow inside the 22mm UREKA was the cry, We put it all back together and left the heating on, the house was warm as toast, finding that elbow was luck, pure luck, everyone won on that one, we got a good payout, the gaffer claimed the brownie points from the housing developer and the owner of the house got a warm house, Snagging work is a bummer !!! You struck lucky on that one Tom  |
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Post by rocketmanbkk on Dec 5, 2018 21:02:25 GMT
The dreaded air lock once was what fucked me up & made me lose my confidence
Now, with my regained youth & good looks I just deal with it & not worry about it although not had one for a while.
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Post by woodbine66 on Dec 5, 2018 21:33:19 GMT
What's the worst you've ever had ? Can be either on a heating system or hot and cold supply.
Still being in my local and getting late in evening desperately trying to shift airlocks after fitting them a new hw cylinder. Heating side filled up perfectly - rads and cyl heating up. Hot water was another story. Kitchen hot tap downstairs was the only hot tap flowing normally, and there was a dribble from the one on the under bar sink.
Sounds a bit like the house in PB's post. Building dated back several 100 years, bits added, stable converted to landlord's accommodation. Pipes going up down and around - added to over the years. Typical pub plumbing! Really low ceilings upstairs, so little head for upstairs taps - especially shower head which had only inches of head. Tried everything in the book. Some taps would dribble then stop. Tried linking h and c taps with hose and back filling. Managed to coax some taps that way, but it was slow going. Some kept dribbling, then stopped. By 10 pm, had all but the hot in gents bog going. Only way I could get the shower in LL's flat going was to take top off of shower pump and cross the flow switch terminals with my screwdriver, on then off in quick succession. In the end, this pulsing got it flowing.
Fecking nightmare. Decided to call it a night. Phoned LL in morning, and hot in gents had come back on all on it's own. Must be the plumbing ghost.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2018 21:38:07 GMT
What's the worst you've ever had ? Can be either on a heating system or hot and cold supply.
Still being in my local and getting late in evening desperately trying to shift airlocks after fitting them a new hw cylinder. Heating side filled up perfectly - rads and cyl heating up. Hot water was another story. Kitchen hot tap downstairs was the only hot tap flowing normally, and there was a dribble from the one on the under bar sink.
Sounds a bit like the house in PB's post. Building dated back several 100 years, bits added, stable converted to landlord's accommodation. Pipes going up down and around - added to over the years. Typical pub plumbing! Really low ceilings upstairs, so little head for upstairs taps - especially shower head which had only inches of head. Tried everything in the book. Some taps would dribble then stop. Tried linking h and c taps with hose and back filling. Managed to coax some taps that way, but it was slow going. Some kept dribbling, then stopped. By 10 pm, had all but the hot in gents bog going. Only way I could get the shower in LL's flat going was to take top off of shower pump and cross the flow switch terminals with my screwdriver, on then off in quick succession. In the end, this pulsing got it flowing.
Fecking nightmare. Decided to call it a night. Phoned LL in morning, and hot in gents had come back on all on it's own. Must be the plumbing ghost.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2018 21:41:05 GMT
The dreaded air lock once was what fucked me up & made me lose my confidence Now, with my regained youth & good looks I just deal with it & not worry about it although not had one for a while. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2018 21:43:53 GMT
What's the worst you've ever had ? Can be either on a heating system or hot and cold supply.
Still being in my local and getting late in evening desperately trying to shift airlocks after fitting them a new hw cylinder. Heating side filled up perfectly - rads and cyl heating up. Hot water was another story. Kitchen hot tap downstairs was the only hot tap flowing normally, and there was a dribble from the one on the under bar sink.
Sounds a bit like the house in PB's post. Building dated back several 100 years, bits added, stable converted to landlord's accommodation. Pipes going up down and around - added to over the years. Typical pub plumbing! Really low ceilings upstairs, so little head for upstairs taps - especially shower head which had only inches of head. Tried everything in the book. Some taps would dribble then stop. Tried linking h and c taps with hose and back filling. Managed to coax some taps that way, but it was slow going. Some kept dribbling, then stopped. By 10 pm, had all but the hot in gents bog going. Only way I could get the shower in LL's flat going was to take top off of shower pump and cross the flow switch terminals with my screwdriver, on then off in quick succession. In the end, this pulsing got it flowing.
Fecking nightmare. Decided to call it a night. Phoned LL in morning, and hot in gents had come back on all on it's own. Must be the plumbing ghost.
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Post by woodbine66 on Dec 5, 2018 21:54:40 GMT
You got there in the end though Woody, top man 😎 Tries your patience mate.
Never minded being in pubs late at night. Just as long as I'm on the other side of the bar with a pint of cider in hand. Jobs like that make you want to chuck it all in. But we keep doing it.  smiley-sad056 nay
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