Green star-how do I remove condensate pipe

away-with-the-fairies

Hi all, like lots here I have a frozen condensate pipe. In the short term I have been told that I can disconnect it from the pipe that goes externally and as a temp measure do it internally. It's a Green star 28i I have looked and there does appear to be a black corrugated plastic bit where the pipe joins the boiler but I am unsure exactly how I can get it to drain into a bucket. Can anyone help in a no simple way I can understand.thanks

silvercar

If you can't disconnect it, can you pour warm water over the pipe where it is frozen? Then wrap it in insulating material.

Box28

How far does the 'black corrugated bit' come down from the boiler before going to the outside wall?

away-with-the-fairies

My boiler is in the middle of the house and the pipe goes from the boiler under the floorboards to the bathroom to outside then along a flat roof and into gutter .its lagged but obviously not enough and as it's such a long stretch it could be anywhere that's frozen which is about 3 metres of pipe which is why if I can I want to temporarily disconnect the condensate pipe and drain it off into a receptacle inside but I have to figure out how. It froze yesterday but I managed to unfreeze it by banging the plastic pipe and eventually the shards of ice came out but it seized up again yesterday evening.ultimately I need to sort it but at the moment I have no heating or hot water and can't even get hold of a gas man

silvercar

It doesn't really matter where you disconnect it, as long as it is before the frozen section and where you have space to put a bucket underneath to catch the liquid as it comes out.

away-with-the-fairies

This is a photo of my boiler from underneath and I am presuming the condensate pipe is the one with the black rubber on it

Chrisv

JuzaMum

I have had the same problem with my boiler. I managed to push the black rubbery pipe up to disconnect it from the white rigid pipe.