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>> Yesterday morning my partner was using the hot water when the Main
>> Mersey kettled and the pressure increase blew apart one of the
>> compression joints on the water intake pipe. The resultant torrent of
>> water flooded the bathroom and kitchen underneath.
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Yep, sounds very similar to what happened to mine!
> I called out a local gas company who attended that afternoon. The
>> engineer suggested a replacement multi-point water heater as this
>> wouldn't be significantly more than any replacement parts. I was
>> happy with this as the heater is about 20 years old and clearly >> outdated.
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>> Unfortunately, the shock of the pipe rupturing appears to have caused
>> a small leak in the gas supply pipe to the water heater.
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>I doubt it -- leak was probably there before.
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Yes, I think you're probably right.
> I'd value any advice or guidance on what to do because at the moment I
>> have no hot water or heating at all :-(
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>It seems to me all you really need at the moment is a new multipoint
>and a new gaspipe feeding it and the old one disconnect at the supply.
>You don't have to rip the old gaspipe out, and you probably won't be
>allowed to put the new pipe where the old one was anyway. If you change
>the boiler later, you can still keep the multipoint either as a backup
>for power cuts or boiler breakdowns, or for your regular hot water supply.
>I did that, then you don't need a high flowrate combi boiler.
Good point. I didn't consider putting a new gaspipe in to feed the new multipoint. Fairly easy route: straight up the inside of the cupboard under the stairs from the meter to the landing then under the bathroom floor and up to the multipoint.
It should take only a couple of hours to put in a new multipoint, plus
>however long it takes routing a new gas pipe through. The current Main
>multipoints are designed to be able to hang on the flues of their
>predecessors, so that makes installation easy and you won't need a flue
>kit. When I did it a few years ago, they had 3 models, and I would go
>for at least the middle one with thermostatic control (sorry, don't
>recall the names now).
Do you mean the Thames?
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How easy was it to fit?Thanks for your input Andrew.
Trevor.