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Afternoon all, I need some advice again!
Approx. 4 months ago (I think?), my boiler broke, so in it's place is a brand spanking new combi boiler, I'm very happy with it, it does what it says on the tin!
Anyways, the old system is a gravity fed system, and my house has a shower in the bathroom and a shower cubicle in the ensuite, where the pipes come down from the ceiling. This meant the the installation guy(a gas engineer) had to go into the loft to do the pipe work for my shower to work, and I had this loft insulation stuff put in a few years back, it was an extra large hosepipe sprayed on type insulation, so he had to fight through that to get to the pipes.
Now this engineer didn't give me a fixed fee for installation, instead, he told me it would be 200 quid a day(his daily rate), and he told me up front it was a 3 day job. He's a nice guy, an old guy, he's serviced my original boiler for the last 13 years with very little issue and costs, and the combi boiler he recommended me was at cost price, he ordered it through his trades account, I went to pay and pick it up myself(did a bit of research too just incase), so it's a guy I can trust really. It ended up taking 4.5 days to complete, and with it, the labour to go with it! It was still a cheap install in all honesty, but it was incomplete, and I didn't really wan to pay him another day for the remaining part of the install.
Basically, the shower to my bathroom is not connected, but my ensuite is. Now he's recommended that I go for an electric shower in the bathroom, as a backup, in the case of the combi failing, he even created a spare water feed that I can connect to, but he doesn't do electric showers, so he's not ripping me off here, he's thinking in advance.
Now my question is, apart from access to the bathroom shower pipes being restricted in the loft, is there ANY reason why he would not have connected them up in the loft, whilst he was doing the ensuite pipes, which from what I can see, they are about 1m apart distance between the pipes. I'm pretty sure he went for plastic quick fixing in the loft also, as I can't see it anyways, surely it would have taken him an hour extra max to stick a T piece and split the feed and join them up? Or is there a limit of how many showers you can hook up to a combi boiler?
So my main question, for those in the know, is: Is it OK to pay someone to connect these pipes up in the loft? (I'd attempt it myself, but I hate plumbing), or shall I go down the separate electric shower route he recommended?
Approx. 4 months ago (I think?), my boiler broke, so in it's place is a brand spanking new combi boiler, I'm very happy with it, it does what it says on the tin!
Anyways, the old system is a gravity fed system, and my house has a shower in the bathroom and a shower cubicle in the ensuite, where the pipes come down from the ceiling. This meant the the installation guy(a gas engineer) had to go into the loft to do the pipe work for my shower to work, and I had this loft insulation stuff put in a few years back, it was an extra large hosepipe sprayed on type insulation, so he had to fight through that to get to the pipes.
Now this engineer didn't give me a fixed fee for installation, instead, he told me it would be 200 quid a day(his daily rate), and he told me up front it was a 3 day job. He's a nice guy, an old guy, he's serviced my original boiler for the last 13 years with very little issue and costs, and the combi boiler he recommended me was at cost price, he ordered it through his trades account, I went to pay and pick it up myself(did a bit of research too just incase), so it's a guy I can trust really. It ended up taking 4.5 days to complete, and with it, the labour to go with it! It was still a cheap install in all honesty, but it was incomplete, and I didn't really wan to pay him another day for the remaining part of the install.
Basically, the shower to my bathroom is not connected, but my ensuite is. Now he's recommended that I go for an electric shower in the bathroom, as a backup, in the case of the combi failing, he even created a spare water feed that I can connect to, but he doesn't do electric showers, so he's not ripping me off here, he's thinking in advance.
Now my question is, apart from access to the bathroom shower pipes being restricted in the loft, is there ANY reason why he would not have connected them up in the loft, whilst he was doing the ensuite pipes, which from what I can see, they are about 1m apart distance between the pipes. I'm pretty sure he went for plastic quick fixing in the loft also, as I can't see it anyways, surely it would have taken him an hour extra max to stick a T piece and split the feed and join them up? Or is there a limit of how many showers you can hook up to a combi boiler?
So my main question, for those in the know, is: Is it OK to pay someone to connect these pipes up in the loft? (I'd attempt it myself, but I hate plumbing), or shall I go down the separate electric shower route he recommended?