1st class job. One observation putting your arrester in that position you have created a “Dead Leg” which can hold your hot water on longer when tap is turned off. Top job.
good work on that challenging install, its good to see all the problems faced sometimes with conversations and gives me some ideas that i may face if converting form a heat only this year
Nice job, I am a BAI installer, like the idea of using the tun dish instead of frilling out the safety valve pipework. Just an observation the shock arrestor looks good but it's a big dead leg buddy. Nice job and you overcome the problems as we all have to look forward to seeing the next one
Thanks mate, yes agree with shock arrestor, is a bit of a dead leg, I do like the prv going into drain, make life easy for baxi engineer if they ever have to work on it 👍
I'm a firm believer, that to see something 6 times on youtube is like to do it once myself. To master the art of plumbing, I will keep watching your videos ;)
I must admit your work ethic is next to none, well done bud, over and beyond 👍. I must say, myself I don’t like burning fittings in a loft space. It might be from the old days from fitting cold water tanks, there is so much flammable material you can catch alight. Now days doing an install in the loft, you can time yourself to stop burning to give yourself chance to keep an eye out for anything smouldering because there are other thing to get on with without using a blow torch. Nice work👍
I don’t like soldering in lofts, I’ve actually catched the felt lagging once and it’s like a fuse wire! Had to scramble to put it out, didn’t make same mistake twice! I do try and solder first so it gives you most of day to make sure everything is ok 👍
Looks banging, I love the fact you take pride in your workmanship. I don't do boilers yet, but have the same attitude towards the work I do especially my pipework, to the point where lads who I have worked with or helped out told me that I can be pernickety at times. Love the sticker idea why wouldn't you want to advertise your business and the quality it/you provide. Not an expert on boiler installs but this looks mint.
Thanks mate, always take that little bit longer in your work just to make it spot on, installs speak for themselves then..my mate who works with me says I’m too picky sometimes 😂
Im 66 year old been in the plumbing industry since 16 years old , a top job ,remember do not listen to the idiots that can do the job quicker and better than you cos they are the idiots to puts a 22 to 15 reducer to step up that gas main on the boiler
Nice tidy work there. I always fit the weather compensation sensor on these boilers, its so easy and improves the efficiency. But customers need to understand that rads wont get so hot on milder days.
I like the Weather comp its really easy to fit on Baxis, very cheap as well, like you said thou it’s a hard sell when you tell customer about how it works 👍
Great content brother. There's always a surprise or 2, for us & the customer & we have to deal with it eh! Well done for showing us warts an all!! Just subbed mate👍
Fantastic install that, and there’s nothing wrong with taking pride in your work. I like the sticker, again it puts your name out there. At the end of the job you can stand back and say “I made a jolly good job of that installation” Well done indeed.😊
Top install fella. I’d stick in an auto bypass if it’s a one pipe, or any combi installed onto zoned heating / TRV system. saves intermittent overheat faults. yes it says it can do it through the plate but saves you a visit in the future
Sound advice mate, be honest it didn’t cross my mind at the time with everything going on…but hopefully it will all be 2 pipe soon, if they get any issues thou I can always stick one in for them 👍👍
Thanks mate I’m not sure the exact model but it’s the Dewalt right angle core drill he got it from screwfix, needs the 54V battery’s thou…is really good
Conditions here, in Poland, are heaven compared to what you got there. I'd wail like a baby after seeing that plumbing. Full respect, mate. Really great job. I have absolutely no idea, how much it would cost in the UK, so I'll give you my local, Polish estimate in Polish zloty (PLN). It would be 3 full days plus 3-5 hours of the fourth day if I soldered, 3 days if I crimped Boiler with complete twin flue system and middle range electronic thermostat would be 11000 PLN (Any 24 kWh Bosch, Vaillant or Saunier Duval). Parts (fittings, filters, valves, pipes etc.) =/- 3000 PLN soldering, 4500 PLN crimping. Labour (I work alone) 5500 PLN soldering, 4000 crimping. So I'd quote the client for 19500 PLN no matter if I'd solder or crimp (plus all the necessary taxes). Any cordless crimping tool is between 3550 and 6000 PLN here. So I save one day of labour using a crimping tool. Think about it.
@@Stefan_Kawalec makes sense doesn’t it to invest as from what you’ve detailed it pays for itself, definitely going to invest but my van has just cost me a lot in repairs so will have to wait just a little bit by looks of it
@@bluebulldog_ukSure thing. And of course there's no way anyone of us would spend all the money from one job on a tool. It would be unreasonable. But I think you should really consider putting some crimping tool on your shopping list.
Nice job mate enjoy watching your vids. I always fit baxis and use ifos to satisfy boiler plus, plus it’s a good energy saving method especially now they want as close to 55 flow temp as possible on boiler swaps, with ifos even if the rads are undersized for a 55 flow temp most of the time unless its below around 5 degrees outside the ifos will keep the flow temp 55 or below meaning the boiler will always be condensing in heating mode. One thing to note on the combi 2 it comes factory set to the lowest curve at 15 meaning it will only have a flow temp of 55 when outside is 0 with an outside of 10 it would be around 35 flow temp so you need to go into the installer settings and change it to about curve 40 on existing systems which will give you a flow temp of 55 when it’s 10 outside and 70 when it’s 0 outside. When I’m doing gas runs like you had I always use 1 or 2 lengths of 28mm off the meter otherwise you end up with more than the permissible 1mbar drop and that’s without any other appliances running. It’s surprising how the fittings quick reduce how far you can run in just 22mm. Also another thing to bear in mind now with boiler swaps is you have to fit a boiler that will modulate down to the required heating demand which is around 5kw for the average house. A Baxi 24 will go down to 5.2 a 30kw is around 6.5 and a 36kw is around 7.8. So really a 24kw is suitable now for most properties based on that especially if they have modern taps with flow rates limited to 9-12 l/m there’s no need for bigger combis it’s all about efficiency now 😂 oh and the new blow off design with the clip is shite there’s a rubber o ring on the prv when you push the pipe on it pushes the ring out of place mean it leaks onto the floor when draining or prv is activated. The o ring is to big/slack and to thin. It needs a thicker smaller one on there so it doesn’t move when you push the copper tail on. Keep up the good work.
I’ve seen that and would of been great to give it a try, would of had to order it in thou and because the plans changed so quickly wasn’t prepared, flue snugs am normally in stock around by me but if I have same situation again I would give the internal fit flue a try 👍
Sorry mate I didn’t include it as I’ve done a video recently on the main eco compact and shown on that video how to fit flue, to be honest the full videos am normally a lot longer than what I put out so some stuff doesn’t make the cut 👍
Regulation with soil pipes has to be 900mm above a opening window within 3m, bang a AAV on don’t need to run it that high..that’s my understanding behind it 👍
@@bluebulldog_uk quite right, but if shallow traps are incorrectly installed into soil stacks or even when the wastes are installed correctly; at peak sewer loads the problem of sewer gases permeating traps can be a real issue. If every property used AAV'S it would soon become apparent. Encountered exactly that scenario on a group of 3 new build terraced houses a little while ago. The soils on all three relied on 50mm AAV'S in the roof space, resulting in a serious amount of foul gases permeating the wc trap in the first property. Solution, extend end properties 100mm soil to terminate conventionally and removing that properties AAV. Problem solved, which is why the end of drain run should always be an open vent. I've come across it loads of times and it's usually a combination of ignorance of the purposes of a vent pipe and outright idleness!
Thanks mate, to be honest we gave the customer a quote and stuck to, it cost us an extra £50 in materials I think and they are a long time customer so never added it on 👍
Think you should have fitted a cement board or plasterboard over the ply board ,the boiler is fitted too,been gas engineer for 48 years ,always taught never fix on combustible surface ,what wood is ,but have rules changed ,don’t know
It’s ok to use plywood on back of most boilers now, can’t think of any you can’t off the top of my head…had that question raised before a while ago and it’s fine 👍
Omg. Why play with the feed pipe to drain the cylinder. Just syphon from the top. No risk of a massive flood if the feed snaps off. I feel your pain with that gas run. What a horrible layout
That’s true but never had one split or break doing that, very rare we do it like that but I get your point always a risk…gas run was a bit of a nightmare but once we knew where we was going was half the battle 👍👍
Sexy looking install fair play! The last Baxi I installed had an odd PRV arrangement. It came out just to the right and above the gas valve and the copper tail had some funky factory bends on it.
