DANGER OF THE WEEK AWARD

Bad Heating Installers

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While installing a new boiler in a group of flats I was surprised to see that with the exception of two boilers in the whole group of first floor flats 80% were installed incorrectly. I’m always surprised when installers go install a flue straight through an air brick but when the outside the air brick lines up with another vent inside the flats like most of these pictured below I am stunned! I’ve written about this practice before in A Room With A Flue, Improper Flue Termination, Another Danger Of The Week Winner and my all time favorite 30 Illegal Flues. The flues pictured here  break most of the regulations that exist.

So from start to finish how many issues can you spot? Click each photo for enlargement and an explanation of the broken rgulations. See any other regulations that have been broken? Let me know.

On a daily basis I drive by five properties where flues have been installed incorrectly; never bricked up on the outside. There seems to be no shortage of either DIYers who just don’t know or care about what they are doing, or a large group of central heating engineers who don’t know or care what they are doing, or groups of trained individuals that just can’t be bothered to plan ahead. No matter how you slice it these flue installers are swines!

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