On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:37:31 GMT, geoff wrote:

In message , John Stumbles
writes
On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:45:32 +0000, T i m wrote:

Hi All,

I'm replacing our own Main Avon multipoint water heater with a newer
Main Medway jobby.
...
So, I can either move them all in soldered copper, use compression
copper fittings or for the water at least use flexible tap connectors?
(Can they also be used for gas out of interest .. considering much
gas plumbing is in plastic these days (in the road at least!)) ;-)

They're absolutely prohibited for gas use. To be honest it really doesn't
sound as if you have the competence to do this job if you're asking
questions like this.


I dunno, I wouldn't have known this when I was looking to install my
first boiler

In the real world Geoff there are loads of things that are just
bureaucracy. I know John means well and there is no way I will be
doing anything against code but the point is there are probably loads
of things in millions of installations that wouldn't meet today's code
but are *still* perfectly safe.

That's not to say they couldn't be made better or safer but you only
have to see what they *still* get away with in other parts of the
world (and closer to home when they think no one is looking) to know
that folk get away with all sorts of stuff.

It's not in my nature to try to 'get away' with anything .. being Mr
over cautious or over engineered (or over fussy), but I know where to
draw the line and I can use common sense.

Our daughter has a small wall mounted balanced flue fire in her room
and the thermocouple has just failed. I've removed the thermocouple
(new one will be in tomorrow) but I could have taken one out of the
brand new fire I still have sitting in it's box. I didn't because I
see no point disturbing a new fire for the sake of a few hours. I
could have (easily) changed the whole fire but that would mean
touching the gas and I wouldn't want to do that! ;-)

All the best ..

T i m