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lame plumber
got a call to fit a tiger loop to a 8-10 year old wb boiler. Arrived, boiler working ok and has been for the whole of its life until, watsons last filled the tank and it started to lock out intermittently. So as the old lass is on their maintenance plan, they have been out swapping parts several times and on last call the techie stated the oil line is sucking in air stick a tiger loop on it! So muggins got a call and had a look, top entry tank and the connectors been hit as loads of heldite been added recently, all the visible joints look good, filter certainly hasnt been touched in years! Boiler was fine when I was there and so i showed the lass how to work her timer, put new batteries in her room stat which wasnt working and explained how it should run. Noted the supply line should have been 6mm due to suction heights and length but its been fine for 10 years. Main issue in fitting a tiger loop was it was a mobile home, surrounded underneath with bricks so no access, hence why watsons ran off! and boiler in centre of home so no access for piping at all.
So off i went advising her son in law to get watsons to find the intermittant fault and resolve it. ok the tiger loop should have been fitted initially, but its been fine till their boy battered the fill point and oil line exit. My thoughts are a failing pump solenoid dropping out or the suction line in the tank has come loose, but the old dear is already paying for maintenance and shouldnt be having to cough twice. As for fitting a tiger loop to repair a leaky oil line, anyone else ever do this?
to cap it, 2 hours after i left it locked out, been running ok for a week!
any thoughts
So off i went advising her son in law to get watsons to find the intermittant fault and resolve it. ok the tiger loop should have been fitted initially, but its been fine till their boy battered the fill point and oil line exit. My thoughts are a failing pump solenoid dropping out or the suction line in the tank has come loose, but the old dear is already paying for maintenance and shouldnt be having to cough twice. As for fitting a tiger loop to repair a leaky oil line, anyone else ever do this?
to cap it, 2 hours after i left it locked out, been running ok for a week!
any thoughts