commercial pictures ?

[Whyme]

Niiiiice.

 

[Gray0689]

Happens to is all mate

 

[MarkAqua]

Carbon steel gas line I see?

 

[MarkAqua]

no nothing I just spied it. That being said, how come you didn't just weld a gas line seeing as though the LTHW is?

 

[MarkAqua]

I see, only curious. Your own welds?

 

[Ermintrude]

Ran out of redlead too ! External plant room, small hospital?

 

[Scott_D]

Looks good SimonJohns
Are Strebel commissioning the boilers or are you doing it yourself?

 

[MarkAqua]

nice job mate

 

[Ermintrude]

It's a nicer job than I could do myself but the wiring to burner control and gas valve looks a bit sloppy?

 

[MarkAqua]

To be honest Erm' its a complete pain in the arse wiring them up. You can use Kopex to make it look neater but ultimately it will never look brilliant. You don't get right angles in cable very often.

 

[Ermintrude]

I could do wiring 100% better but would struggle to improve on pipework. Not many clips insight between the boilers?

 

[MarkAqua]

its a ridgid tri-stand?

 

[MarkAqua]

hairy muff

 

[Ermintrude]

To be honest Erm' its a complete pain in the arse wiring them up. You can use Kopex to make it look neater but ultimately it will never look brilliant. You don't get right angles in cable very often.

Steel conduit to within 150mm and gland on end of it then a steel flex to burner to allow maintenance .

 

[Ermintrude]

Used to be a pipe clamp?

 

[MarkAqua]

its a ceiling brace but i wont give too much away haha

 

[Ermintrude]

Welding lug?

 

[MarkAqua]

no, it's a ceiling brace. it takes 1" tube and you stick it on top of the shouder so its touching ceiling then tighten it up to make it ridgid, good for big tube

 

[Ermintrude]

Good idea! Saves it tipping over.

 

[MarkAqua]

indeed. although I only ever use a Ridgid bench to be fair, with chain and engineers vice

 

[Ermintrude]

Most if our work involves a pipe slice and a super fire 2

 

[missplumb]

a couple of pics from a recent job we have just finished. 90kw Froling boiler out and a 200kw ETA in. Previous system was totally undersized, if all the properties on the district heating system called at the same time, then only half of them got heat, The boiler was constantly running just to try and keep up, even in the summer when there was no demand for heating, and 4000litres of buffer stood cold!!!.
We replaced the boiler, rejigged the fuel store to allow us to move the buffers (new ones fitted) and then upgraded the pump set.

 

[dave1]

Wow 200kw! Looks impressive.

 

[Gray0689]

Looks good miss
What you do with the old stuff

 

[tamz]

View attachment 19999View attachment 20001View attachment 20002View attachment 20003View attachment 20004View attachment 20005a couple of pics from a recent job we have just finished. 90kw Froling boiler out and a 200kw ETA in. Previous system was totally undersized, if all the properties on the district heating system called at the same time, then only half of them got heat, The boiler was constantly running just to try and keep up, even in the summer when there was no demand for heating, and 4000litres of buffer stood cold!!!.
We replaced the boiler, rejigged the fuel store to allow us to move the buffers (new ones fitted) and then upgraded the pump set.

How much have you come on in the past while Missplumb.
Good to see you are enjoying yourself. Neat work btw :smile:

 

[missplumb]

Looks good miss
What you do with the old stuff

 

[Gray0689]

Not good what a waste
Can't you recycle them
Make a bit extra then
Froling isn't cheap stuff
I agree with tamz you work is looking excellent

 

[missplumb]

tbh, it wasnt part of our contract to remove the old gear from site and we wouldnt be happy fitting a new boiler and connecting it to existing buffers etc, if they failed then it wouldnt look good for us even though it wasnt our fault.

 

[Nostrum]

Who fitted the froling?

 

[missplumb]

it was fitted by Econergy (british Gas). it was done about 2008 so before the rhi was available. everything was undersized, boiler, pumps, expansion vessels .

 

[Dotty]

I've got two froelings I look after. Absolute poo.

I would've gone for a Hoval STU.

 

[Nostrum]

I've got two froelings I look after. Absolute poo.

I would've gone for a Hoval STU.

What don't you like about the froling croppie?

 

[missplumb]

The boiler itself was fine, weve done a few 200 kw frolings and they are ok, bit too fussy, but work ok. the problem with this one was the heatloads totalled 140kw and the boiler was only a 90kw, the buffers were 2x 1600ltrs which is a bit on the short side, and because of the way they designed and controlled it, the boiler was always trying to provide heat for the system running 24 hrs a day even in the summer and the buffers sat cold.

 

[Dotty]

What don't you like about the froling croppie?

They go through refractories like they're going out of fashion.

 

[Nostrum]

Refractories?

 

[Dotty]

internal blockwork. And arches.

 

[Nostrum]

Googled it, combustion chamber linings ?

 

[missplumb]

the firebrick linings inside the boiler

 

[Dotty]

Yep and yep.

 

[oz-plumber]

I would be very proud of them also.

Looks great - Well Done

 

[missplumb]

nice install, do you not put local isolation on the pumps simon?

 

[Scott_D]

Nice work, dont forget to ID tape the SS gas pipe:sorcerer:

 

[missplumb]

just started on a new install, replace a binder biomass boiler for a froling one and completely repipe plantroom, install buffer tank in seperate building.

 

[Nostrum]

Hi missplumb,

I'm surprised you are still working in copper on these scale installs, I would have expected LCS given the cost! Any particular reason why?

We are on a baby Froling next week, all 15kw of it along with a colossal 500 litre buffer!

 

[missplumb]

We've priced copper and lcs on a few jobs and there was only £500 in it. Then there is different cutter blades etc, and we get a decent price for whatever copper is left at the end of the job from the scrap man
the boiler we are doing is a tx250 with a 6000ltr buffer.

 

[missplumb]

boiler is in and built, most of the pipework in the plantroom is done

 

[missplumb]

biomass system finally up and running now for the fun bit - lagging

 

[gasmanrob]

2 bed flat is it?

Or or is this what there putting infront of the plate heat exchanger on a Worcester compact these days

 

[Scott_D]

2x Vaillant 120kw going in

 

[Scott_D]

2x 1000L cylinders going in