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must be one bloody big house to have a sprinkler system fitted you sure you dont mean fire alarms?
Discuss Over 3 mins to get hot water in kitchen - is this normal? in the Plumbing Jobs | The Job-board area at PlumbersForums.net
I'm sorry but that doesn't show us anything. A photo near the hot water cylinder might show it
must be one bloody big house to have a sprinkler system fitted you sure you dont mean fire alarms?
Unfortunately, for us, a recent change in building regs means that if a house is over 4+ floors they must fit a sprinkler system.
must be one bloody big house to have a sprinkler system fitted you sure you dont mean fire alarms?
Please keep the thread on topic Shaun, we are now over 100 posts and nowhere further forward than post #1 for crying out loud.
you wont get any further until she gets a g3 eng out to check the system mate sorry to say
Wish somebody had told her that before, a long time before tbh.
post 23 mate
post 24 and 33 etc
That's yonks ago mate :smile:
...Desn't speak great English so we don't really understand what he is saying.
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the hot water cylinder is on the ground floor in the utility room with the boiler.
I only know the builder's team so electrician, plumber, carpenter, tiler etc on a first name basis. From the replies here I know he needs to provide me with paperwork for me to submit to building regs so he must have to put down his full details on that.
Also, does he need to provide me with a plan showing the layout of the pipework?
Hi Shaun - erm the back of the boiler manual is blank. Is this the paperwork that he is meant to provide me with? perhaps he forgot to do that or I need to ask him to complete it. Is it usually done as a matter of course after a completed install?
Ah right. So if I get another plumber in to assess wouldn't it be very difficult for him to investigate?
Isn't illegal to make gas connections if you are not gas safe registered. I can't e-mail the builder to ask this at this point because I am still waiting to hear from them about when they are going to come over to discuss my hot water issue.
The builder's company is registered with the reputable trade bodies, FMB and Build Assure, and is highly rated on Mybuilder site. Surely he wasn't use someone that is not gas safe registered, just wouldn't make sense for him to do that. But it is strange that he didn't complete the card at the back so I will ask for it to be done and check him out to be safe. I have two children that I need to protect.
If it's a balanced cold then yes I can understand the 4th floor being very slow
But not the kitchen on ground floor as this should in principle be the quickest
Even if the boiler and cylinder is at the back of the house and the kitchen and toilet is at the front of the house?
As I mentioned before, when I had the boiler in the kitchen I waited about 40seconds to get hot water in the Utility room so I did expect when I moved the boiler into the Utility room the time would be the same or better because I thought my combi boiler wasn't very good.
What is your definition of very slow in terms of time?
must be one bloody big house to have a sprinkler system fitted you sure you dont mean fire alarms?
I'd not be expecting any more than 1min 30 to be honest
Do all the pipes run up a wall from bottom to top floor can you see all the pipes rising
I wonder if the Sprinkler pipework gets warm when the kitchen tap is used??
Hmm, that is a another sign that something is not right.
Sorry I don't know what you mean by can I see all the pipes rising, can you explain a bit more?
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