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This ‘plume kit’ was found by Luke Freeman. The customer did not like the smell of the fumes terminating from the boiler’s chimney/flue, so they created the kit using downpipe that terminated into a water butt. The DIY work was removed.

Carl Carey was called to investigate a gas escape after a meter exchange: the gas tightness test had revealed a full immediate drop to zero but there was no smell in the house. Removal of the gas fire revealed unwrapped copper pipe buried in soot, which had rotted the pipe. The installation was made safe.

Song Mao Zhou

noticed a semiconcealed gas meter box that was badly damaged. There was nobody home, so he left a note advising on the meter box condition and possible damage to the gas meter.

Kris Tolbod was removing a sink and hob for a client who was replacing their kitchen and found their hob connected with a mixture of end feed and push fit fittings. Kris made safe.

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Matt Cole was asked to fix a heating element on a dual-fuel range cooker. He was horrified to find a tap connector hose from the bayonet hose to the cooker. He removed the tap connector hose and brought the installation up to current standards using a proper hose adaptor.

After disconnecting a gas fire and checking other appliances in the property, Phil Dye saw this boiler installation with a missing FGA test point cap. He capped off the boiler until he could get the correct FGA test point cap.

Stephen Leitch

found this on a new-build site with a gap of 1000mm between the buildings. The appliance MIs state there should be 1200mm clearance from a chimney/flue terminal facing another terminal.

Nathan Gardner was servicing a boiler when he noticed the FGA test point cap was missing but no products of combustion were coming out. He investigated further and found that a previous engineer had disconnected the hose going to the test point and stuck a tyre dust cap over it. The boiler was made safe.

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