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Shiney New Boiler
The plumber were here from 8:20am onwards yesterday. He left us with a brand new boiler dutifully supplying us with on-demand hot water. Nice. Never thought I'd get excited about such things!
As you can probably see, it's in the cellar, out of the way. The only thing separating it from the room above is the floorboarding. Luckily for us it runs quite quietly.
When he recommended this model to us I had little idea of what 15 litres per minute was. It's a lot. Unlike other "combis" (ours is a condensing) I've used in the past, this one can fill a bath really quickly. I'm impressed.
One downside to moving the boiler was the need to expel the fumes on this side of the house. As you can see below we've a new eye-sore. The flue he used is as tall as this so as to "meet the regs".
Oh well. No worse than the waste-pipe all houses have from bathrooms I suppose. Maybe we can grow some ivy up it.
As he plumbed all this in I went to work on the removing old system. Not sure what he thought my motives for helping out were but I've saved him a day's work. Had some fun in the process too. You can see most of the old system in the shot above. What a waste hey?
May 8, 2005 in Plumbing | Permalink
Comments
He could have used black pipe, which would have looked a little better. Regs are that you must be one metre above any opening with a vent pipe.
Posted by: Dave Meehan | May 9, 2005 08:29 AM
You'd have thought so Dave, but he reckons you can only get it in white.
When you say one metre above an opening. Do you mean like a window? Is that why it's so much higher than the window in the shot?
Posted by: Jake | May 9, 2005 08:36 AM
Get yourself some flat black exterior spray paint, some cardboard and some tape and paint it up. I did our sump pump discharge pipe that way - not for looks but so it wouldn't freeze up in winter. A little solar heating keeps it flowing nicely, and the exterior paint seems to stick to PVC well enough.
Or paint it Brick red. Nobody will see it unless they look.
Posted by: Jerry Carter | May 9, 2005 07:45 PM
I also meant to say... what fun you could have with the left over parts. Cut the top off that tank and take out the innards. With a little spot welding of brackets you could make yourself a decent little smoker. It's about the right size.
Posted by: Jerry Carter | May 9, 2005 07:46 PM
