Me again. I purchased a Worcester 28i Combi with flue extension.
Would you recommend push-fit pipe fittings..beyond the copper pipework required to connect to the boiler?
I will hire a CH engineer to install the boiler and light it up...but do they mind if the home owner installs his own tubework...might he/she throw a fit and refuse to do the work?
Arthur.
Some are ok about you even installing the boiler yourself and just having them to come and check it and then pipe it up to the gas, some take great delight in telling you that you are not allowed to do anything at all. To cut down on cost, you could ask a corgi registered fitter to come and install it for you but tell him that you only want the hot water side of the boiler working and that eventually, when funds permit, you will have the central heating side done, then do it yourself. This is what I shall do when I move into my next house if CH is not fitted. Plastic pipe should not be fitted within I think it is 1m of the boiler so after that it should be ok from what it says in my installation guide for my combi.
-- troubleinstore
It varies like the direction of the wind. The problem is the government and a concept called "Benchmarking"
I fitted a combi boiler and complete CH system in a two bed terraced house (for letting), having first asked a co-operative Corgi guy if he would make the final gas connections at the boiler and meter. he then tested it and gave me the necessary certificate for £50
If he's near Bristol, please mail me his details!
That would be one way.
Alternatively they might make up an amusingly high price for an "install only" job. Don't forget they usuaally expect to also get an extremely attractive income by supplying the boiler at a normal price after getting a very handsome discount at the local plumber's merchant and, if they fit enough of a particular brand, a holiday or at least a monogrammed toolbag as well. When I was trying to find someone local to do an install only on my Eco Hometec (badged MAN Micromat) combi, the most entertaining quote I got was around £1800 for install only. OK it included some moving around of pipework and chopping out the old cylinder and tanks but the guy was taking the p**s. I think there was something a bit pikey about him as well but I may have been imagining that. Oh, he also wanted to do the good old "power flush" scam for about an extra £500.
Good luck. Simon.
I shouldn't have read this at 10 past midnight! I'm gonna have nightmares with a lot of zeros in them.
Thanks for the warning.
Arthur.
No problem with the push-fit but don't forget the inserts. If you pressurize your pipe-work first they may be less reluctant. Don't touch the gas. Noticed from another post Flushing is a must. If your system is about 10 years old and full of sludge would you want you new boiler especially a combi sucking up all that c**p, the manufacturers certainly don't
Thats what many so-called pros use.. But never use push-fit for gas.
In some areas, e.g. London, its virtually impossible to get anyone to just do boiler install bit. Modern combis are easy to install .. do it yourself.
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