This cupboard housed messy and leaking pipework and boiler (left). Out it all came and in went the Vaillant 831 Combi, new pipework and magnaclean shown in the second picture.
These pictures show a 5-bedroom 3-bathroom house that required a very high pressure hot water system. The first picture shows the previous installers attempt at achieving this which had apparently never worked properly. I installed a new unvented 270 litre cylinder (properly and safely this time). Then in the cellar downstairs, I power flushed the system and re-located a new 628 Vaillant boiler 5 feet to the left. The shower is now more like a pressure washer!
The 9-year-old Vaillant boiler (seen on the floor) in this property worked fine but the customer wished to swap to a combi set-up, so in went a new Vaillant ecoTec Plus 831. The pipework altered, a magnaclean installed and the cupboard replaced around it.
This big old cast iron system boiler had lost interest in producting heating and hot water for its owner and so the blank wall opposite (see pic 2) made a perfect location choice for a nice new Vaillant 831 combi and magnaclean after the system was fully power flushed.
Montem Road, Forest Hill: The installation of a new "made to order" kinked bay window radiator in the front room, and in the bathroom a chrome towel warmer radiator with chrome pipes and fittings
Hospital Way, Hither Green: This 3-storey house had 5 separate let rooms, so a much larger 300 litre cylinder was installed with a 25 year guarantee in the place of the old one, and for good measure a new heat-only Vaillant 428 boiler was installed, along with a Magnaclean, 7-day timer and 10 thermostatic radiator valves.
Along with installing a new combi at this job, I was tasked with re-running the pipework in the cupboard directly behind the boiler. As you can see, mine is not only straighter but is now actually fixed to the wall with pipe clips! Plus; with a little precision marking-out, my pipes pass through the wall at the bottom and directly into the Vaillant 831 on the other side (see pics 3 & 4).
This small flat had one of my arch-enemies hidden away in a bedroom: The Potterton Netaheat! Good old boilers but a pig to remove. This one's asbestos rope gasket had failed and was leaking badly. It was evicted from its cupboard and a Vaillant EcoTec Pro 24 installed with a 7-day top of the range Vaillant timer and a magnaclean filter to catch any left-over oxide sludge that the Netaheat had left behind.
Winsford Road: These 3 pictures show a job where a boiler downstairs had packed up and the yellow tank that it fed was heavily scaled up. Both were replaced and the new boiler relocated to above the tank along with the pump, motorised valve, magnaclean and a 7-day programmer.
The pictures show an empty cellar wall that made for a perfect relocation choice for this customer's boiler in Ladywell, freeing up space in the kitchen above.
At this job in Kent, the hot water cylinder and system boiler was removed and the system converted over to a combination boiler spec - giving instant hot water and freeing up cupboard space in a bedroom
Fitting a new Vaillant ecoTec +831 combi boiler for Mum & Dad - labour free of course!
These four pictures show before, during and after a complete fresh heating and hot water install in a previously derelict property in Lower Sydenham, SE26
A "spillage test" being carried out on a decorative fuel effect gas coal fire as part of a Landlords Gas Safety Check on a house in Honor Oak Park, London SE23
The old Potterton combi boiler in this house in Rutland Park (Lewisham, London SE6) had completely packed up, so a modern Worcester condensing combi boiler replaced it
The pictures show an old cast iron Potterton system boiler that, along with the tanks upstairs, was removed and replaced with a Worcester combi boiler and a magnaclean system filter to protect the new boiler.
The big old combi boiler shown here used to keep the congregation of the church in Deptford High Street warm, but when it became uneconomic to repair, a new high capacity Worcester boiler (shown next) replaced it, as well as the addition of a magnaclean and a programmable timer clock.
Nice new Vaillant ecoTec pro 24kW combi boiler, neatly tucked away in a kitchen cupboard in Forest Hill, London SE23.
The new Worcester 18Ri boiler shown here replaced a big cast iron floor-standing boiler that resided the last 32 years in the space below the worktop. That space then went on to house all the new external components of the system, including pump, motorised valve, magnaclean, wiring centre and digital signal receivers for the room and cylinder stats.
The next two photos show the same system being power-flushed prior to connecting up the new boiler. Note how filthy the water was!
Here in Blythe Hill Lane, a new pre-lagged hot water cylinder waits ready to replace the old and un-lagged one seen peeking out from the loft space, and the next two photos show the before & after of this job.
This photo shows the 'coil' inside a hot water cylinder. This one is new, but in old cylinders in a hard-water area like London, the outside of this coil grows thick with scale and lime - preventing good heat transfer to the water in the tank, resulting in insufficient water temp and unnecessarily high gas consumption. A new cylinder is the only answer in this scenario.
A customer in Brockley asked for an extension to be made to her heating circuit in the form of a chrome towel rail in the downstairs bathroom. The pipes were neatly routed along the skirting board and through a door frame and teed into existing heating pipes. Job done.
With an Ideal Logic+ HE condensting combi boiler installed with a 5 year warranty, this customer in Blackheath Park wished they had never bothered to keep repairing their tired old Alpha boiler that previously was here.
At this job in Lewisham, the left image shows the compact modern condensing boiler replacing the huge old one which left a sizeable hole in the house wall (see next right). In the last two images, it's clear how nicely the work was finished off.
In this boiler replacement, a modern, efficient condensing boiler was fitted to make the house warmer, and to reduce bills and emissions.
In this job in Peckham, a MagnaClean filter was fitted along with a replacement Worcester boiler to prevent the new boiler getting clogged up with sludge.
In this boiler replacement, a modern, efficient condensing boiler was fitted to make the house warmer, and to reduce bills and emissions.
The left image shows the new water tank, MagnaClean filter, pump and two valves. In the other pictures you can see the long run of pipework required, and how tidily it was completed.
In the photo of this new Vaillant boiler you can clearly see the MagnaClean filter fitted below it, and the two motorised valves on the new pipework.
New expansion vessel and pump in a boiler replacement in Forest Hill, Lewisham.
In this job, the replacement boiler was fitted into the former airing cupboard as well as the new, properly insulated hot water cylinder.
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