Do I really need a new boiler?

Jimbooo

anotherbaldrick wrote: »

The combustion chamber is the grey lump towards the bottom , this is the sealed chamber to contain the nasties. The casing above is not room sealed but is decorative to hide the innards, How can a hole in this pose a risk to anyone.
I had one of these boilers and the casing front just lifts off and you then see the boiler as illustrated..

Are you a registered gas to work on gas? The casing of the boiler is definitely room sealed and the engineer should have at the very least turned it off and told whoevers boiler it is not to use it and filled out the "at risk" paperwork. The cost of changing a boiler case could easily come to more than changing the boiler, that is assuming that you can get hold of the case.

Gloomendoom

Hmmmm... I've just read the installation instructions for that boiler and I cannot see anything about the casing being room sealed. Moreover, the way the casing is assembled and attached to the mounting frame hardly appears to be conducive to a gas tight seal.

I'm not a registered gas to work on gas though.

sillygoose

Gloomendoom wrote: »

Hmmmm... I've just read the installation instructions for that boiler and I cannot see anything about the casing being room sealed. Moreover, the way the casing is assembled and attached to the mounting frame hardly appears to be conducive to a gas tight seal.

I'm not a registered gas to work on gas though.

Presume its got close fitting rubber seals around the front and panels with multiple screws to keep it tight, tight grommets around all the cable entries sealed with silicon and same for the pipes?

Gloomendoom

sillygoose wrote: »

Presume its got close fitting rubber seals around the front and panels with multiple screws to keep it tight, tight grommets around all the cable entries sealed with silicon and same for the pipes?

If it has, I can't see it in the manual. Have a look for yourself...

http://www.acwilgar.co.uk/Boiler-Manual-PDF/Potterton/POTTERTON%20SUPRIMA%20SYSTEM.pdf

espresso

Gloomendoom wrote: »

Hmmmm... I've just read the installation instructions for that boiler and I cannot see anything about the casing being room sealed. Moreover, the way the casing is assembled and attached to the mounting frame hardly appears to be conducive to a gas tight seal.

I'm not a registered gas to work on gas though.

Need to go to Specsavers then:

On re-assembly ensure that the outer white case is correctly fitted and that the sealing strip fitted to the door is forming a tight seal with the boiler casing.

sillygoose

Not so much a boiler, as a bag of components and a box to hide them in.. definitely on my Christmas list.

Gloomendoom

espresso wrote: »

Need to go to Specsavers then:

I must do! I still can't find it even though you have pointed it out.

southcoastrgi

Gloomendoom wrote: »

I must do! I still can't find it even though you have pointed it out.

try this one

Gloomendoom

southcoastrgi wrote: »

try this one

Ta.

Well, at least my eyesight is ok. However, it does look like the OP's plumber was on the ball after all.

southcoastrgi

you aren't going to replace the rear case even if it was availible as a spare part you would have to completely strip the boiler & re-build it, you have been there 2 1/2 yrs you should have already had two services by now, have you ? if you have then the leak should have been picked up, if you haven't then ............

I would have at best turned it off as At Risk but if there was the slightest hint of fumes escaping I would have ID it which ever way it's new boiler time you aren't allowed to repair the case, check with your builder it may still be covered however he may quote the servicing if you haven't had it done, i wouldn't re-fit another one of those IMO it's old tech upgraded to meet with the modern regs, cast iron heat exchangers went out yrs ago