This week (ending 19 April 2024), the electrician has come back to finish the work and certification, following the boiler installer who came back to do the boiler pipework properly this time (it had been previously incompletely done by the builders). The gas installer this time checked the plumbing within the house, which I must pay for. The builder had contracted with me to do all the plumbing etc, including the heating system, which I paid for. But it was never commissioned. The gas boiler should have been installed and the internal plumbing to radiators checked, but the builders left the job and never came back to liaise with the gas installer.
The gas installer on checking the internal plumbing found that one of the radiators the builders installed was not working and he does not think it will work (without taking up the floor, which is tiled, or with wood flooring or within the floor). He noted that one of the pipes coming from the floor was 10mm wide and guess that there was something in the non-accessible pipe work in the floor, perhaps a crimped flexible pipe or a bent copper pipe in the floor, that was causing no flow to the radiator. It will not be practical to use that radiator, which can only be removed. Luckily, it is not in a place that needs much heat. It is in the short corridor outside the bathroom. However, it is just another example of how Seamus Hampson/Clearson Holdings Limited left the job at my house.
