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I'm correct in saying the EV should be after the PRV aren't I?

(I don't do unvented)

Yea, - after the PRV, between it and the unvented unit it is supposed to be for.
Nothing is to be fitted on that pipe except perhaps a drain off.

 

[SilentMike]

I'm correct in saying the EV should be after the PRV aren't I?

(I don't do unvented)

Yes there is a check valve in the combination valve

 

[stani]

Went to classic lxff today and found the case bracket had broken off and been repaired with silicone

 

[stani]

Anyone turn them right way up please.

 

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Hope this works, -

 

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Lovely pipework and soldering. Gas heating job, what a joke!

 

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Take a look at this soldered joint I melted off. Literally holding by a solder thread and all joints seem same. Some of the pipes are also cut at a bad angle, obviously with a hacksaw. Pipes half in, barely soldered. This is original work (30 years old) on a system now converted to combi high pressure in a flat.
Really shocking "plumbers" could do such consistently useless soldering.

 

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Take a look at this soldered joint I melted off. Literally holding by a solder thread and all joints seem same. Some of the pipes are also cut at a bad angle, obviously with a hacksaw, (this one in photo is done badly with a pipe cutter) Pipes half in, barely soldered. This is original work (30 years old) on a system now converted to combi high pressure in a flat.
Really shocking "plumbers" could do such consistently useless soldering.
View attachment 26251

Note the fitting shows bare copper never soldered also. I am removing every fitting above the floor, but it is a worrying thought that the pipes are buried in screed floors. Not a good idea to even move the pipes

 

[ShaunCorbs]

not clean enough before soldered

 

[tamz]

Take a look at this soldered joint I melted off. Literally holding by a solder thread and all joints seem same. Some of the pipes are also cut at a bad angle, obviously with a hacksaw, (this one in photo is done badly with a pipe cutter) Pipes half in, barely soldered. This is original work (30 years old) on a system now converted to combi high pressure in a flat.
Really shocking "plumbers" could do such consistently useless soldering.
View attachment 26251

Note the fitting shows bare copper never soldered also. I am removing every fitting above the floor, but it is a worrying thought that the pipes are buried in screed floors. Not a good idea to even move the pipes

Come across that a lot on stuff fitted in the 70's and 80's. Some that are fully soldered you can snap off easily. Might be a combination of bad cleaning and the flux but it only seems to be on stuff from about a 10 year span. Saying that it is unusual to find soldered copper stuff from the 60's or earlier. It was all compression or paraffin blow lamps for lead then.