DANGER OF THE WEEK AWARD

Bad Gas Fitters

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One of the responsibilities of the plumber or gas fitter when installing a boiler or in this case a hot water heater is to try and ensure that the system is safe and maintainable.

The pipe work shown to the right is what happens when pipes aren’t insulated. In the last month of below normal temperatures pipe work that wasn’t properly lagged is now starting to split. These four pieces were replaced last week. To make matters worse the hot water heater wasn’t protected either!

The cracked housing shown to the left usually sits just above the water mixing assembly. This system froze so badly that the aluminium housing was cracked.

Unfortunately the housing also contains the gas vale assembly and so it too had to be replaced. The outcome was several hundred pounds because a few quids worth of pipe lagging wasn’t fitted and the boiler wasn’t protected from freezing in any way shape or form.

A few minutes worth of planning before the original installation had taken place would have saved wasted money in repairing this unit.

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