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[Andy B]

I'm glad mine is indoors .. well, in a sort of half-indoor cupboard (gets down to 5.5C in this weather but no lower).. although there is a nice 'uphill' section in the pipe thanks to my plumber who was apparently unfamiliar with the concept of gravity.. 

My boiler is in what used to my airing cupboard and doesn't have an external wall, so my boiler condensates into a saniflow type tank complete with pump that pumps it up trough my roof into the gutter. This was at my suggestion verses how he wanted to plumb the bottom feed boiler into where the original boiler was sited.

Only acceptable if you have a combined foul and surface water drain..

By chance then my condensate goes into my foul drain ..... eventually. 

[pscocoa]

s**t. Short run is to rain water. Longer run to foul. Back to drawing board after cold spell.

i.e. long run is frozen solid - so will need to thaw out and then switch back. I wouldn't mind but a registered heating engineer advised connection could be to either!!

[Marks DTM Calib]

s**t. Short run is to rain water. Longer run to foul. Back to drawing board after cold spell.

i.e. long run is frozen solid - so will need to thaw out and then switch back. I wouldn't mind but a registered heating engineer advised connection could be to either!!

Any engineer would not make that mistake....hence why they are really only fitters!

[CaptainZok]

s**t. Short run is to rain water. Longer run to foul. Back to drawing board after cold spell.

i.e. long run is frozen solid - so will need to thaw out and then switch back. I wouldn't mind but a registered heating engineer advised connection could be to either!!

Any engineer would not make that mistake....hence why they are really only fitters!

Engineers designed the Titanic.

[Marks DTM Calib]

s**t. Short run is to rain water. Longer run to foul. Back to drawing board after cold spell.

i.e. long run is frozen solid - so will need to thaw out and then switch back. I wouldn't mind but a registered heating engineer advised connection could be to either!!

Any engineer would not make that mistake....hence why they are really only fitters!

Engineers designed the Titanic.

Correct, and it was the monkey operating the ship that caused it to sink (and the saleman who sold it as unsinkable!) 

[Lizzie_Zoom]

s**t. Short run is to rain water. Longer run to foul. Back to drawing board after cold spell.

i.e. long run is frozen solid - so will need to thaw out and then switch back. I wouldn't mind but a registered heating engineer advised connection could be to either!!

Any engineer would not make that mistake....hence why they are really only fitters!

Engineers designed the Titanic.

Correct, and it was the monkey operating the ship that caused it to sink (and the saleman who sold it as unsinkable!) 

....................and even the Harland & Wolff parts manager who specified cast iron rivets instead of steel ones!!

[Kevin Wood]

....................and even the Harland & Wolff parts manager who specified cast iron rivets instead of steel ones!!

Ahh, come on. The bean counters always know best.

[pscocoa]

Just spoke to a mate in Wargrave who had the same issue of condensate pipe frozen last night - and is his lagged!! So now we are onto "wrong type of lagging".

But the wall the pipe is on is north facing!!

[PhilRich]

Just spoke to a mate in Wargrave who had the same issue of condensate pipe frozen last night - and is his lagged!! So now we are onto "wrong type of lagging".

But the wall the pipe is on is north facing!!

Simples, just box in the pipe!

[PhilRich]

I'm glad mine is indoors .. well, in a sort of half-indoor cupboard (gets down to 5.5C in this weather but no lower).. although there is a nice 'uphill' section in the pipe thanks to my plumber who was apparently unfamiliar with the concept of gravity.. 

They truely are useless over priced workers arnt they!

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Ahem! Don't tar all tradesmen with the same brush Mr DTM if you please, if you've had bad experiences with the ones you've used, then they may deserve the above remark, but I certainly don't & neither do the majority of fellow Plumbers/Gas Engineers that I know personally or professionally. There are 'Cowboys' in every field of endeavour! 

[Marks DTM Calib]

I'm glad mine is indoors .. well, in a sort of half-indoor cupboard (gets down to 5.5C in this weather but no lower).. although there is a nice 'uphill' section in the pipe thanks to my plumber who was apparently unfamiliar with the concept of gravity.. 

They truely are useless over priced workers arnt they!

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Ahem! Don't tar all tradesmen with the same brush Mr DTM if you please, if you've had bad experiences with the ones you've used, then they may deserve the above remark, but I certainly don't & neither do the majority of fellow Plumbers/Gas Engineers that I know personally or professionally. There are 'Cowboys' in every field of endeavour! 

There not engineers, fitters and techs at best.

And I see to many shite installs so yes....crap trade and crap body over seeing them.

Sorry 

[Marks DTM Calib]

Just spoke to a mate in Wargrave who had the same issue of condensate pipe frozen last night - and is his lagged!! So now we are onto "wrong type of lagging".

But the wall the pipe is on is north facing!!

Ah but, what size pipe, whats the fall and how long is it.....

[PhilRich]

I'm glad mine is indoors .. well, in a sort of half-indoor cupboard (gets down to 5.5C in this weather but no lower).. although there is a nice 'uphill' section in the pipe thanks to my plumber who was apparently unfamiliar with the concept of gravity.. 

They truely are useless over priced workers arnt they!

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Ahem! Don't tar all tradesmen with the same brush Mr DTM if you please, if you've had bad experiences with the ones you've used, then they may deserve the above remark, but I certainly don't & neither do the majority of fellow Plumbers/Gas Engineers that I know personally or professionally. There are 'Cowboys' in every field of endeavour! 

There not engineers, fitters and techs at best.

And I see to many shite installs so yes....crap trade and crap body over seeing them.Sorry 

That is only YOUR opinion you cheeky sod, what would your reaction be to someone calling everyone in your Profession Crap?

[Marks DTM Calib]

Many of them are but, our professional body gets rid of them.....gas safe are a blody joke, its not like its a particularly difficult thing to get right yet so many get it wrong.

[PhilRich]

Many of them are but, our professional body gets rid of them.....gas safe are a blody joke, its not like its a particularly difficult thing to get right yet so many get it wrong.

Yes, I have to agree that the former CORGI & now 'Gas Safe' (a bloody misnomer if ever there was one!) were/are a bloody joke, & as said earlier there are plenty of cowboys & otherwise useless individuals in the Trades who couldn't give a flying F for anything other than their paypacket, but that is still no reason to slag off everyone who works in that sector. Also as I said earlier, your opinion is just that, Yours! but if you choose to air it in Public in the manner you have here, it wont go unanswered