Hi, I had a boiler installed in my first floor flat and the engineer has left the condensate pipe sticking out of the wall by a few inches - it doesn’t connect anywhere. He says it can just drip into the earth below. Does that sound right?
Condensate pipe poking out of wall (not connected to drain)
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Is this a genuine (first) post?
The OP must, surely know that, even the briefest search on the internet would SHOUT about as loudly as can possibly be shouted, that the condensate discharge pipe can not be left thus - and that it's far quicker to check on-line than it is to go to the trouble of registering your details on a plumbing forum and await replies (which I suspect might not be overly forthcoming).
It must be the most commonly discussed topic imaginable.
No, I apologise if I'm in the wrong here, but I don't see this going far.
The OP must, surely know that, even the briefest search on the internet would SHOUT about as loudly as can possibly be shouted, that the condensate discharge pipe can not be left thus - and that it's far quicker to check on-line than it is to go to the trouble of registering your details on a plumbing forum and await replies (which I suspect might not be overly forthcoming).
It must be the most commonly discussed topic imaginable.
No, I apologise if I'm in the wrong here, but I don't see this going far.
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No, it's wrong.
Was he a registered gas safe installer? Where did you get him from?
Yeah, website says they’re registered. They’re local. I just rang and asked him to take it to drain.
Can you give us a pic or 2, 1 from inside under the boiler and as the pipe heads into the wall and outside as it exits, it's definitely the condensate?
It will eat the render/mortar/brickwork over time if left like that.
It will eat the render/mortar/brickwork over time if left like that.
Yep, that's what we had in the house we bought last year. When there was a fault and condensate was dripping all the time and boiler losing pressure it's ruined about 8 block paving bricks.
The flue was going right across the garage ceiling without any supports and there was no ventilation.
We had a gas safe certificate from the seller (carried out 2 weeks before we moved in) and the boiler had been regularly serviced and was installed by a gas safe registered person.
Hardly inspires confidence.
No that is completely wrong, call him and tell him to sort it or call gas safe and ask for an inspection
Oh my .... 
and it's not even that far from a soil pipe, not have his ladders that day?? +1 Yup, get him back to get that sorted or reported.
oh... and ....
...... It should increase by a pipe size to 32mm if it travels outside 
and what make of boiler is it?
and it's not even that far from a soil pipe, not have his ladders that day?? +1 Yup, get him back to get that sorted or reported.oh... and ....
...... It should increase by a pipe size to 32mm if it travels outside and what make of boiler is it?Hang on this is 21st C. plumbing - not the 1960's where a guy would climb a ladder and drill a cast iron soil pipe for a bossOh my ....
oh... and ....
And drip on peoples heads @ the front door