A couple of days in the life of a plumber In this video I sort a badly sooted HRM Wallstar oil boiler and connect some fusion pipes to a lagoon Thanks for watching as always guys #plumbing #plumbing #dayinthelife #boilers #oil #wall star
Interesting boiler design that keeps the potential mess when the burner is misbehaving out of the kitchen. Burner fires 7:05 I'm impressed that you can tell from the smell of the flue that the air is in the right ball park, proper oil man. You're lucky you don't have to service the earlier designs of oil boiler like the 60s Redfyre Centramatics. They had a fan pressurised pot burner and the boiler was always sooted up after a heating season with those, partly because the burner went through a `smoke curve' on start up (because the burner wasn't totally suitable for on / off operation; the oil comes into the pot at a fixed rate before the fire has properly established (pot has to warm up), resulting in over fuelling on start up) and because the paraffin was burned with a yellow flame.
I do like the Wallstars, they seem prone to sooting though, they do make a condensing version of this boiler as well, you don't see so many of them, but the older ones were fitted in social houses in my area so there are loads around, thanks for watching
Hi Tom, Some great filming even in the rain. Two messy jobs there, soot and mud my ocd was going into melt down. Well done mate, as always take care. 👍👍👍👍
Thanks for the support as always Chris, bad whether does make filming more difficult, hopefully it stays dry for the next couple of days as I'm fitting qn outside boiler
Great job bud ….you were saying about damaging your vac I got myself an ash hoover it’s specifically for soot and ash I use it all the time for oil boilers mate
Hi Tom you could have done with a smoke pump brilliant for that type of work and protecting your combustion kit ? Good job under the circumstances Matey👍
I do have a smoke pump but for the life of me could not find it on the day, the boiler smelt fine after running a while so decided to chance it on this one, thanks for the support mate
I think this had the three piece baffle set in it, from memory they are all the same and do have top side written on them, I find most of the time these go sooty because someone has messed with the settings, the common one is where the bleed the oil and change the pump by mistake
@Plumb Like Tom there is a tiny gap around the edge of those baffles that can accidentally close. Yes, like you say, someone might botch the oil pump and say nothing! Usually, the owner, who is too embarrassed to mention what he did.
I remember doing jobs like this for a company I used to work for spent hours cleaning the soot of unserviced oil boilers, then them asking why I couldn’t take a job on the way home…
Great video Tom, I've got a Trianco Eurostar through the wall boiler. It's developed a tiny pin hole on the back. Do you think it's possible to weld up to repair? Thanks in advance for any advice
You might be able to weld it, I have heard and seen people do it in the past, I have changed a few of the water jackets on the HRM boilers, it works out a lot cheaper than a new boiler, there is one on ebay for the boiler you have I believe so it might be another option
@@Mr_Ashley It's not for everyone but I really do enjoy it, being able to fix the majority of boilers on the first visit with fairly standard parts is always a good feeling, you do get the occasional bad one but if they are serviced correctly, they very rarely cause issues
Normally on these it's where people have messed with the pump pressure trying to bleed the oil back through, I went back to it a few days later and it was running fine
I did spot that at the end on the day, I've no idea why it was on gas when I only use that one for oil, as it happened I popped back in to make sure the boiler was still OK today, it did need some small adjustment but overall was running perfect, thanks for the support mate 👍
I charge treble time for sooted oil boilers.Very time consuming if its an internal oil boiler. One of the few jobs I dislike and turns your spit black for next 24hrs.
Another great grafting video - keep them coming Tom! (And Oil - which is always a bonus!) Be interested if you follow anybody on RU-vid that you enjoy watching Plumb-wise?
Thanks for the support mate, there are quite a few other very good plumbing channels that I like, I have them set as featured channels which should be at the bottom of my main channel page
I've always been given all the so called bad jobs, I actually quite enjoy them now as it does make life interesting, thanks for watching as always mate 👍
The wall star is like an inside/outside boiler, the burner is on the outside and the controls are on the inside, they are very popular around here as like you say they save space and keep all the smells out the house, they can be temperamental but are built solid and last years, thanks for watching as always mate
Nothing worse than soot why did you not use your hoover ? I know they clog up quick with it but the mess is terrible ruins all your gear tools and worse of all you flue gas analyser . Great vid as normal
I find the soot tends to destroy my little battery hover really fast and I didn't want to run a mains one round because it was pouring with rain, I know it's always a risk putting an analyser in a bad boiler, and I could sample it first but from experience that boiler smelt Ok after running a while so normally all is fine, thanks for watching as always mate
k20aa : I have to agree! I won't clean os boilers in the rain/damp for exactly that reason + electrocution concerns. Also I only use Vac and paintbrush to get all the soot off first, then change gloves and tools stay pretty clean. I set up by eye/smell after a soot-up, erring on the side of over airing a little and walk away for a few days. Then return, smoke pump in first, only then will the Kane go anywhere near........ I think Tom was lucky not to kill his analyser myself.
I do need to pop back and just check the boiler, I set it up best I could on the day, but it may need another clean out and just checking over again, I think I did get lucky with my analyser on this one, I guessed the settings to a degree and the boiler smelt fine before putting in the analyser, thanks for the support as always mate
@@PlumbLikeTom When you go back: Sometimes after a soot-up you may get a little yellow tinge on your smoke paper when you call back in a day or two , don't worry about this as it will disapear after about a week of clean running, as long as theres no black on smoke paper...... You should be safe to stick the analyser in. HTH 🙂
