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Location: Chadderton, Oldham, Lancs
Date: July 2009
Description: The owner of this home had already decided that he wanted a combi boiler installed before we arrived. They currently had a system boiler and showed us the one he wanted from a manufacturers brochure. We discussed several other options and the fact that the least expensive boiler wouldn’t necessarily produce the expected results. In the end we decided on a different manufacturer with a warranty that was four years longer than the one he had picked and a boiler which produced more litres per minute as required for his needs. Due to lack of storage space we found another location to install the boiler so that when we removed the tanks from the airing cupboard the entire space would now be usable.
The old system boiler was removed along with associated immersion and F&E tanks from the loft and airing cupboard. We also had to re-route some pipe work. The previous central heating engineer had also left us some extra work that he was too lazy to do himself. He had screwed in a wet copper heating element into the hole usually used by an electric immersion element and left the primary coil hooked up to the old lead pipe work which probably ran to an old back boiler arrangement. We planned ahead just in case the pipe work was full of water and fortunately for us we did. The old lead pipes were still VERY full of stagnate water after twenty years. Thanks!
Once everything was removed we installed the new Viessmann 100-W 30kW combi boiler into a utility room at the rear of the property and started re-routing the gas and the flow and return pipe work. The hot and cold where already in place for the cloths washer. Once the flue was in we spliced in a spur to the house ring main. We had one more job to do which was a radiator swap in one of the bedrooms upstairs. We had already flushed the entire system so put in the new radiator and were ready to fill the system and start commissioning. The entire system was completed in only a few days and the home owner is saving money due to an efficient and properly sized boiler.
As we are authorised Viessmann installers we added an additional two years to their standard three year warranty so the home owner is now enjoying the luxury a FIVE year parts and labour warranty on the boiler and a ten year warranty on the heat exchanger.