I'm 72 now and still working full time, I'll carry on as long as I still enjoy the job, great video, thanks again.

hi Dave Macdonald here. Love all your videos. I'm 69 and still doing installs ! Not mad but skint. Everything hurts ! Knees, wrists, back and elbows! Too poor to retire so will go on till I drop which may be soonerr than er exper raaaaaahhhh!

Yes Derek , I turned 70 last September . Been doing plumbing heating since I was 16 . I’ve never tired of it although these days I try to focus more on service and repairs . Also Oftec Technician. Will renew my ACS qualifications this year and health permitting will carry on for another 5yr🤪

I was expecting you to say these old looking things were from the 70s or 80s, but 2004?! Wow. My parents always had a conventional separate boiler while I was growing up though so that is probably why this thing looks so alien to me.

Turned 60 last year and dropping jobs as each year passes down to servicing and repairs, no rads. or installations.. been there under floors in water on my back.. not any more.. decided i wasn`t going to knacker my self up working, don`t mind doing it doing the pastimes i enjoy.. love the vids Derek.

Hi Derek really did enjoy watching this 1. I remember doing these as an apprentice 6 years ago and loved it. Some stuff to be learned on system like this and the more you do it then better understanding of it you gain. Anyway your not that old to be doing stuff like this now and again. Tom's a good lad (enjoyed gaining experience from him) and hopefully he follows through your footsteps. Thanks for everything. 👍😁

Hi Derek , videos are brilliant! A bit of everything in them, the good and the bad , I’m 64 and go through that almost every day my wife thinks I’m enjoying myself at work , anyway keep the videos coming I look forward to them .

Great video very informative, thanks Derek👍👍👍

Hi at 48 I was still quick , I'm 55 and yes after a boiler install I feal like a old man . Love watching you videos. Plz keep them coming

I've had a baxi combi duo Tec 28 for 8 years ..serviced every year....never had a thing go wrong with it...great boiler..

Great video! Always so informative.

Great video Derek .Did 30 years as a Joiner and now mostly sat behind a desk gaining weight cant wait to get back amongst it doing a real job again .....cheers Derek.

Great job well done. Although I'm not a gas man was still at it till 61 under floors and in lofts as a telecoms and electronics engineer. Still getting physio now for my sins.

Yes definitely gets harder as you get older Derek, I'm still on the tools at 57 and somedays feels like I'm 87. Fair play to you even though you are a jinx, you're probably best stopping in the centre to pass your vast experience on that way mate, keep doing the vids😄😄👍

Great video Derek because it’s nice to see plumbing and gas as it is in the real world. Glad you didn’t edit out the bad stuff to show it can happen to the best of use.

Fantastic video superbly described; and the diagram wasn't crude....it was made thoroughly clear by you. Thank you

Great video Derek. I have just finished a job just like that but with a bathroom refurb thrown in as well. After 32 years behind the trade counter I have just started doing this at the age of 55. WTF have I let myself in for I ask myself ;-)

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Thanks Derek great video 👍

I passed my initial acs thanks to your useful Videos

Great video Derek, really informative. Chris, still at it, at 57 👍😂

A proper install mate. I’m afraid some so called heating engineers think a Combi Swap is difficult !!! BTW I’m 58yrs Old, Cheers, Lance.

Excellent helpful video

Yep 54 still at it 🤪 must admit though the 10-12 hour days are long gone ,I’m on way home no later than 3 o clock every day but all in all I do still kind of love mi job .it’s challenging and rewarding 👍👍.You get yer sen back in the center Derek with a nice cuppa tea and warm yer arse Ont radiator 😂.

Great video Derek

Great video

Quality mate 😄

Its a knockout and seaside special, compulsive Saturday teatime viewing............ ;-) I'm still at it daily on the tools and I reckon we are a similar age, only 2 others from my class of apprentices ( 18 IIRC) still are , gets harder every year but what else could I do except work in a nice warm training ctr and pass on all my hard won experience! ;-) PS. I still service a few BBU every year, a couple much older than the one you removed.

Hi Derek I’m 55 still at it! Been doing a bathroom this week and had to gut it so dust a plenty! And everyday I say to myself.i am too old for this Sh😩t!! Loved the video 😝the things we do hey!?

Wow i’am not a Plummer in any shape or form but that looks like a pig of a job, I feel sorry for plumbers sometimes, some of the crap you find then have to put right. A little tip though that flex you rapped in brown PVC tape not a good idea you should use a connector block or better steal wago connector’s . I trust you got it all sorted out Great video well done 👍👍❤️

I am 69 and gassafe reg working on caravans and still crawl around under caravans over the axles a nightmare go home like you said feel like I have been run over, last year now for me👍

Sixty seven, forty years self employed ,still grafting on , doing reassessments next week , be working till over seventy . Thats cameron and clegg gor you.

That is exactly the same old fireplace and boiler I still have working 😵‍💫

Feel it every day

Quesion for you mate, we have a Somy two burner oil stove with back boiler (its just three coil pipes inside the stove) there is a pump that circulates the heated water to rad's and its not doing much since there are too mny rads...we are thinking of eliminating the entire water feed to boiler and the pump and use the stove as stand alone stove just to heat the room. could we just have the plumber cut out the coil pipes (back boiler) from the inside the stove after all the water feed is eliminated.? and use as a stand alone stove. We do have a gas burner as well which is plumbed to all readiators and heats up rads well. Thanks, I wish i could share some pics.....cheers

i moved into an old house with an open fireplace. I've been told there is a "back boiler" which heats the water and radiators when the fire is lit . There is a switch which apparently pumps the hot water into the radiators ? The fire is lit i switch on the pump (i can hear bubbling noise) but no warm radiators or hot water . Can someone explain, why not ?

Hi Derek, Great videos by the way. Have you done a video on software that you can buy for boilers? Cheers Nate.

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Can anyone please advise how much will this cost around ??

Did you find out why under the floor was flooded? Could cause all sorts of damp issues. Water pipe leaking, drainage pipe cracked? Guttering ect?

On your training video the other day you used a wand to check for voltage on a boiler before starting work so this must be an old baxi coal back boiler with no power eh

Still have one of these boilers managed to get it installed to replace a glow worm just before back boilers left the market. Has only failed once the gas valve went and took out the PCB. Other than that it has been great. When it goes I don't want another gas boiler may look into a wood stove back boiler. Don't see the point of replumbing my house for another gas boiler and a vic terrace is not going to work with air source. It is amazing how many engineers have no idea how to take it apart I normally get them to isolate the gas and I take the front off for them. It literally takes a couple of minutes when you know what you are doing, I watched an engineer fight with it for an hour once just because he refused to let me help to save his back. In the end he admitted defeat and I removed the front for him in literally seconds.

That's how most annular done in the day maybe with a kopex clamp round flue to stop glass wool falling down

The joys of heating and plumbing lol

Derek could you show if there is a simple way to remove a condensing trap on an ideal isar please.

Well done, you taught a 60 year old (Gas Safe registered) plumbing and heating engineer something. The fat end of the pump is The flow. Nothing beats the freedom that this trade gives you. A nasty boss or customer, you just put your tools in your bag and Tell them to Fxxx off. As the years go by your skills get better and better. After 30 years I have more regulars than I can count. All My work comes from them or their friends. You have not mentioned the first rule of plumbing. Don’t touch anything until you know where to turn the water or gas off. (Clean version) I really enjoy your show. All the best.

Nice video, thanks for this , do you mind me asking how much this job cost the client , just for me to get a rough idea of the type of prices to charge clients for jobs such as this . I'm based in London. Many thanks.

Hi mate i know how you felt sfter that back boiler change it takes the stuffing out of you stay to service only leave the boiler changes to the younger guys

Why was there so much water under that property ??

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Should of played your Joker 🃏

Use a fuse puller by bojo genius tool 😀

Genuine guy doing the best he with a very nasty old system. I have done a couple just like this Really should be a gut out old lead solder joints and on the hot water going from .3 bar to probably to 2.5 + bar. This guy would have checked mains pressure be for offering a combi.The only thing g it go going for it is the copper pipe is thicker walls. You will need to check all you hot service pipes under bath sink . When you see an install like you know it's been put in by a chunky monkeys. So be very careful. No criticism intended as you have probably forgotten more than l know. Just a words to the youngsters coming out training great trade but keep your gloves up at all times.

Do u have any soldering videos mate please upload

Why on earth is that so far up the wall I had one of those with a Vp fire on it but it was at floor level

You remember the Royal its a knockout lol

Time for the Fil Rouge

59 and still going. 😂😂😂👍

JUST AN OBSERVATION YOU DID NOT MENTION THE TWO SCREWS HOLDING THE FIRE BACK IN THE FIRE TO FLUE MEANING THERE ARE 4 SCREWS HOLDING THE FIRE IN POSITION. THIS BOILER ISA BAXI ELECTRONIC 50,000BTU LFE

55 and counting. Still doing what youngster cant.

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No how you feel

Plumbers don't work in the snow ❄️

You mean vitiation tube

Cannot see the fascination with combi boilers ?

What a mess

I cannot understand this Welshmans language one bit...WE ARE ENGLISH SO CAN WE HAVE IT IN ENGLISH PLEASE .