Thread: Came home to this...

Still one in my roof. We have a gas HWS outside, there when we bought it, and the installer just left the old one where it was. It's actually old enough to have a copper tank. No way they'd leave it up there now, with prices what they are. I'm tempted to get it out, but I will have to cut it up to do so, but you can probably guess what it is lagged with....

Originally Posted by JDNSW

But there are still a lot of those houses being lived in today - and probably will be for many years.

Mine is a weird two story, hardwood and cedar, and a little quirky as houses built in the Dandenongs often were. Apart from thermal inefficiency there's no reason to change it.

Originally Posted by austastar

Hi,
I feel for you, mine rusted out the boiler in the range. Took a week to finally stop the flow and another few weeks to disassemble the whole shebang and get 400kg of cast iron out the door.
Cheers...................

Bought this a couple of years ago, PO said it had the boiler inside. Nup, price came down to 400. Plenty of stainless flue came with it.

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Had a bit of 3mm 316 lying around and the dimensions of the genuine boiler so I cut this out and folded the front, top and bottom of the tank. The plate at the top is for the firebox side to make that 6mm.

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Got a mate who does stainless to weld it up:

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Took the top and back off the stove and bricked it in using cut pieces of the firebricks that had been used to replace the original boiler.

The dribbly film you can see on the tank is cooled coconut oil that was warmed up and painted on. I didn't want the fire cement to stick to the stainless.

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Ready for some sealant and the top to go back on. In case you're wondering.........the original insulation is rock wool.

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All done, including some correct size FG seals. There was only one asbestos seal on the thing (on the warmer oven) all the rest were FG, but none were the correct size.

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The water tank this is getting hooked up to is an Aquamax 140 ish litre thing.........looks like 316.

Has been modded with 2 hot side pressure relief valves and will have cold side relief and pressure valves.

Since having had all the necessary sockets welded on I've been told I will get another Amax tank later this year so I'm going join them together and plumb it up a bit differently and run hydronic heating to some extent.

These stoves heat plenty of water and the boiler I put in is the same size as original, but 2" wider.

cheers, DL

Many moons back the Cook and I had house built in a new suburb north of Perth ( Padbury, commonly described then as 'South Geraldton' by horrid people ) and one evening we were sitting in the lounge when a lovely young thing cane running over our newly planted lawn in her nightie..... my hopes rose as she was quite lovely.
But they were soon dashed as she was desperate for help as water was pouring through the light fitting in parts of their also new house. I rushed over turning the water off and also the power in the meter box and went inside to see what was going on.
Water was pouring out of several fittings so I got a step ladder and went up into the ceiling where I found a loose pipe which fed water into their storage tank. The 'plumber' had not tightened the nut down onto the olive which clamps onto the copper pipe so every time they turned on the water the pressure caused the pipe to pushback until eventually it just came right out and sprayed water everywhere.
Off back home for a spanner, back into the roof and all fixed in a couple of minutes by tightening the thing correctly.
A so called plumber had the bloody cheek to knock on my door days later, when he'd decided he had time to fix his bad workmanship, and tell me he was taking me to court for doing his job for him as I wasn't a licensed plumber!
We didn't use the expression 'Foxtrot Oscar' back then but that's what I told him and never heard anything further.
AlanH.