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Vaillant ecotec boiler loses pressure when hot water is on and does not work. But heating is working fine with normal pressure . Help plz
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Fitted a Vaillant 838 Eco Tech plus combination boiler to a property 6 weeks ago. all fine. Customer called in to say that the boiler had locked out on F54 and F28. Reset did it again a few hours later, then been fine since. I attended today to check a few thing:- 1. Gas pressure at the meter...
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I’m after installation service manual for vaillant Ecomax 824 E ( 50p model ) gc 47 044 07 tried Vaillant they don’t have copy can’t find on line or on my many downloads davidfal
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Morning All. We have a gas safe inspection coming up. It's the first one we've had since I started working at the company and my predecessor didn't keep any info on what it involves IE what type of work they will look at, certs and tools to have on the engineers vans and the like. We are 90%...
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Hi guys I'm moving to a flat but where the cooker is situated. I can't get a vented extractor fan as it's the same wall as the next door flat. Are the none vented ones any good ? Which one should I be looking out for ? Or avoid ? Any tips will be helpful
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I'm looking at getting an unvented cylinder fitted but want to know if it's viable before even getting a quote. My cold incoming main is only 15mm but I do get a good pressure and flow which doesn't change alot when another tap or shower is used. Would an unvented be possible?
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Hi all, My customer is renovating a house. Complete renovation of the plumbing. It's a three-bed house for a young family of 3. It will have one main bathroom (bath and maybe an over-bath shower), plus two shower ensuites. I have yet to check the incoming water pressures/flow rates to the...
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Hi, I have a problem with Viessmann 111w I have a Vicare sensor and app. It goes like this : If I have a boiler in DHW only everything works as it should, but then I switch it to DHW and heating. Temperature in a room is 21 degrees. I set the boiler to come on when the temperature is 17...
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Hi all, I recently bought a tenement flat in Edinburgh which has never had gas but is in a stair with a gas supply. Following a survey I have been told I cannot be connected due to new regulations. A boxed in water main is beside the gas main pipe in the stair and impedes the instalation of a...
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All, Belfast, Northern Ireland. I am in a bit of a predicament. I have recently had a stove fitted in a chimney that had a disconnected and capped gas fire. The old gas line went straight out the back wall and was visibly capped a short distance from the gas meter. A simple pull out job. Upon...
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Hi I've been to a customer today that has a 9 year old baxi duo tec40kw boiler,it runs 20 radiator that all work fine,they have 2 bathrooms and 1 electric shower and again have no issues with hot water.Over the last 4 years baxi have repaired the boiler on 8 occasions, with faults on gas valve...
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Unable to adjust co2 readings on a a vaillant ecotec boiler it’s an lpg model I’m currently getting 0.0004 ratio, can’t get a higher co2 percentage than 8.6% (minimum being 9.7 without cover) and the ppm is around 40 Have tried new gas valve new Venturi and new pcb. I’ve cleaned burner and...
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Second job of the day Called out to a Worcester HighFlow 440 with a C1 error code. Third job of the day Called out to a Worcester HighFlow 440 with a C1 error code. (in a loft). Anyone else had anything like this?
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Hi, Recently had a new heating system and unvented hot-water cylinder installed (conversion from vented with tank). Everything is working fine despite the installation being rushed at times. The 'main' guy (not the installer) from the company I used (with very good ratings) - can work with...
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Hi everyone I currently work in oil and gas industry working in North Sea and further afield operating on high pressure oil and gas plants. This line of work means I have on average 6+ months off a year, im thinking of training to become a domestic gas engineer in my time off to earn a bit extra...
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Recently a gas engineer I was working with talked about testing lockup pressure and we were working on an lpg system. I assumed he was talking about operating pressure which should be a set amount plus/minus 2 which I know is 21 +/- 2 on natural gas which helps to prove the appliances is being...
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Hi Peoples, came for some wisdom, currently pricing a job that involves gas mains running through communal corridors underneath the floor and branching off into apartments feeding the meters. Now i know the regs regarding the pipe has to be welded/threaded steel OR in a fire rated duct and iv...
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I have an old room thermostat TR2 , was fitted by BG along with the RD532i combi boiler ( worcester bosch Benchmark type ), do i need to replace the thermostat for an exact same make & model ( TR2 ) or can I replace with a more accurate LED display type ?? ( new TR2 seem's to be approx £100 ...
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Too many ads now as i have to remove adblock anyone else getting cheesed off with this? May have to remove plumbers forums from my pc as unusable.
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Good morning everyone, I have a big old vicarage which needs a new regular boiler. They also want fancy mixer taps in the kitchen . They have two hot water cylinders linked together, a shower pump and curved old radiators in the bay windows. I'm agonizing over what to do. The easiest option is...
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