Gillstay
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Do you have insulating material over the pipe ?
What Have You Fettled Today?
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Do you have insulating material over the pipe ?
Not yet. It was installed by British Gas four years ago. To be honest this is the first time I’ve given it any attention. It seems to have a flexible tube the diameter of a largish hosepipe from the boiler inside a 42 mm diameter plastic pipe. Hindsight suggests a more vertical drop and extra insulation are required, or it goes inside to a drain. I’ve heard of three cases locally in this cold weather, all newish condensing boilers.
When we replaced our boiler with a condensing boiler about 10 years ago one of the things the plumber said was that the condensate drain must be inside. It is a well known issue and I can't believe that condensate drains are still being installed in a way that they are likely to freeze when you most need the boiler.
biggs682
Touch it up and ride it
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- Northamptonshire
Today's fettling was making and baking our christmas cake
When we had our new boiler fitted this year the installer lagged the condensate pipe all the way to the drain outside, I asked why and he said it was a requirement for a modern condensing boiler for this very reason. May well be that BG fumbled the installation.
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Just needs a nice slice of crumbly white cheese and pot of tea.
biggs682
Touch it up and ride it
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- Northamptonshire
I must remember to try that thanks for mentioning it
Fortunately I don’t have that problem with our 37 year old Potterton (I can feel a new thread coming on “who has the oldest boiler”
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
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MIL's house has a trace heater in their pipe after it froze. Ran from the wall, down to step level, under the door threshold, but above the step all the way to the rear grid. Too much pipe to freeze.
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Jameshow
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Nope....
I can get along with pie + peas, curries dail and samosas but cheese on fruitcake is a a step too far!🤮
Was trying to fit a set of 32mm tyres to the Kinesis the other week, realised the front wheel was too far out of true and had a high spot causing the tyre to bind on the mudguards, wouldn't move. I knew that I could fit 32s on there as my other wheelset with 32s set up tubeless (this may be important later) had just enough clearance.
To fix the problem I ordered a new rim and new spoke nipples (the old ones were showing signs of corrosion) and relaced the hub onto the new rim. Nice and true (less than 1/2mm from true, which is the best I can do by eye with a basic trueing stand) and also within 1mm of round.
Fitted new tyres, put on the bike, binding, not as bad as before but bad enough. Tried repositioning and "cold setting" the mudguard mounts but couldn't get it to fit with the tyre pumped to an appropriate (80psi) level. Works with tubeless at 70psi though. Not running that with tubes though.
Time to get some 30c tyres or go back to 28s.
To fix the problem I ordered a new rim and new spoke nipples (the old ones were showing signs of corrosion) and relaced the hub onto the new rim. Nice and true (less than 1/2mm from true, which is the best I can do by eye with a basic trueing stand) and also within 1mm of round.
Fitted new tyres, put on the bike, binding, not as bad as before but bad enough. Tried repositioning and "cold setting" the mudguard mounts but couldn't get it to fit with the tyre pumped to an appropriate (80psi) level. Works with tubeless at 70psi though. Not running that with tubes though.
Time to get some 30c tyres or go back to 28s.
No one said anything about putting cheese on fruitcake. It's eaten on the side to accouplement and off set the sweetness of the fruit.
Gillstay
Über Member
My plumber insisted I understood that you do not take the insulation off as many do as they don't like the look of it . Then he looked very quizzical when I insisted he under jetted the boiler as he realised I was not your average customer. Most amusing.
Jameshow
Veteran
Still no!!
