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23rd Jul, 2008 at 02:38:28pm

Frickin' hot water cylinder decided to let go last night. Its not a massive leak, but the living room cieling is rather damp. I took today off to drain it off and pull it out, only to be sat on the shitter having and Earther Kit, and find my feet in a puddle. The frickin' toilet is also leaking!!!!

FFS!!, the house is only 8 years old and its already falling to bits, and its not as if its not looked after.

To add to the events, the drain cock on the cylinder was siezed shut, so I decided to screw it of the pipe alltogether, this only cracked the valve, I eventualy managed to get the thing draining so i have decided to sit and relax while Im waiting for my 140 litres of hot water, no less, to drain off into the garden

*angry*

Sorry Im just venting, as i can see better things to spend money on*happy*

On 26th Oct, 2004 TurboDave16v said:
 Is it A-Series only? I think it should be...
So when some joey comes on here about how his 16v turbo vauxhall is great compared to ours, he can be given the 'bird'...


On 26th Oct, 2004 Tom Fenton said:
Yep I agree with TD........

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23rd Jul, 2008 at 02:47:47pm

Nothing worse than finding the original problem to then be faced with continued problems!

sudden failure should be covered by your building insurance, particularly as the house is not that old so wear and tear is not an issue

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23rd Jul, 2008 at 03:14:08pm

can yuo take any photoes of the water heater where it let go?


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23rd Jul, 2008 at 06:03:22pm

Arent new houses gauranteed for 10 years?


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23rd Jul, 2008 at 07:15:44pm

On 23rd Jul, 2008 Star Mag said:
Arent new houses gauranteed for 10 years?

Well, from my experience about 12 years ago.... NO !!!!

Brand new house, NHBC 10 year "guarantee" and whenever it rained and the wind blew, the inside walls got soaking wet.

And I mean wet.

What was happening was the outside half of the cavity wall was built from very porous bricks so got wet on its inside surface, water ran down until it found the stacked joins in the cavity insulation slabs (mineral wool slabs) so simply went across to the inner cavity wall by capillery action and soaked it.

I got the NHBC in, the first thing he said was "I have no legal powers, I am simply an arbitrator between you and the builder...." and then said it was quite "normal" for houses built this way with these kind of bricks for it to happen in wind and rain.....

Builder got away scott free, luckily I was on a company short term move so sold it a year later and when I got all the disclosure forms from my solicitor, in answer to the question "any known defects..." I quite truthfully answered "..... recently inspected by NHBC under 10 year guarantee and deemed OK."

NHBC is totally BAC (if I can use that acronym for an organisation rather than an individual).

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23rd Jul, 2008 at 07:23:28pm

HI,
For organisations use BOC, as in Bunch Of... *wink*
Cheers,
Gavin :)

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Preston On The Brook

23rd Jul, 2008 at 10:54:23pm

Well

The cylinder is fucked!

No pictures, but its gone on the base, where the bottom section has been spun, the edge that it sits on has a hair line crack. The bottom is a concave shape, so at its major diameter, there is a sharp return edge. Inside, the bottom of the cylinder was full of gunge which was a make up of cuprous oxide, aluminium oxide, and any other crap that comes in with the water we pay for. This gloop had the consistancy of wall paper paste.

The cuprous oxide is from the cylinder itself, the aluminium oxide is from the sacraficial anode, which is now non existant. The reason the sacraficial anode is there is to reduce the corossion of the copper cylinder, but once that is eaten up, corossion stanrts on the copper and where is the best place for that to start, right in the corner underneath the crud, the heat accelerating it.

The cylinder is a grade 4, and is 0.9mm copper. They no longer manufacture grade 4 cylinders as they were too thin, lol, well thats what the supplier said, and TBH I wouldnt be surprised.

Its wierd becaus if you look at the cylinder from the outside, it apears nothing is wrong. Leave it standing up right with only a little water in the bottom and it leaves a small puddle.

Time for a new one, not wasting oxy trying to fix it.

Goes to show what shit water we have.

Anyone know the current price for scrap copper?

On 26th Oct, 2004 TurboDave16v said:
 Is it A-Series only? I think it should be...
So when some joey comes on here about how his 16v turbo vauxhall is great compared to ours, he can be given the 'bird'...


On 26th Oct, 2004 Tom Fenton said:
Yep I agree with TD........

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23rd Jul, 2008 at 10:59:06pm

its worth a bloody fortune matey - go get it weighed in

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eu gosto de mamas = i like boobs

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Bermingum

23rd Jul, 2008 at 11:02:34pm

Hi,
£3.5K per ton *wink*
Cheers,
Gavin :)

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23rd Jul, 2008 at 11:11:26pm

look like it might not be so bad after all *tongue*
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