Replacing a remote gas control valve with its manual equivalent.
My daughter has a gas coal effect fire. First, I know they're crap, she'll just use it for the occasional time that friends come round.
OK, so it has a remote (broken), a remote receiver (broken) and a motorised gas control valve (broken). The previous people lived like pigs and broke everything they set eyes on.
For the maybe ten times a year she'll use it, there's no point replacing the three broken parts for hundreds of pounds. The valve is a Mertik Maxitrol GV60. The same fire used to be sold with a manual gas control valve, a Mertik Maxitrol GV32 or GV36. Both the GV60 and the GV32/6 have the same connections for gas in and out to burner, gas to pilot light, piezo igniter and thermocouple, and all are in the same positions.
I ring up some gas safe engineers. "Oooooh Nooooo, you couldn't possibly replace it, they'd be COMPLETELY different. It would be like trying to unscrew your old boiler and replace it with a combi". Basically, I must replace all the old parts for many hundreds of pounds, or get a new fire.
I don't want to bad-mouth highly trained engineers, but how come a component that is SOLD with this fire can't be fitted to it?
My daughter has a gas coal effect fire. First, I know they're crap, she'll just use it for the occasional time that friends come round.
OK, so it has a remote (broken), a remote receiver (broken) and a motorised gas control valve (broken). The previous people lived like pigs and broke everything they set eyes on.
For the maybe ten times a year she'll use it, there's no point replacing the three broken parts for hundreds of pounds. The valve is a Mertik Maxitrol GV60. The same fire used to be sold with a manual gas control valve, a Mertik Maxitrol GV32 or GV36. Both the GV60 and the GV32/6 have the same connections for gas in and out to burner, gas to pilot light, piezo igniter and thermocouple, and all are in the same positions.
I ring up some gas safe engineers. "Oooooh Nooooo, you couldn't possibly replace it, they'd be COMPLETELY different. It would be like trying to unscrew your old boiler and replace it with a combi". Basically, I must replace all the old parts for many hundreds of pounds, or get a new fire.
I don't want to bad-mouth highly trained engineers, but how come a component that is SOLD with this fire can't be fitted to it?