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    • Dunc
      Radial plumbing & fire stopping near the manifold

      By Dunc · Posted

      Just need a sanity check please: Fire stopping is required for service penetrations between separating floors (Scotland, Domestic Tech Handbook 2025, 2.2.9, p88).  Exceptions are listed which seem to cover most of the requirements for single domestic dwellings (exerpt below). However with radial plumbing I'll end up with 21 plastic pipes of 15mm diameter from the manifolds heading up into the ceiling void before dispersing to outlets. Of course these pipes will basically be in 1 group in order to connect to the manifods. The forum is full of examples of mainfold based plumbing, so have I missed something in terms of the fire stopping, or the exemption?   Fire stopping of the following services passing through a separating wall or separating floor need not be provided for: • a pipe or a cable with a bore, or diameter, of not more than 40 mm, or • not more than four 40 mm diameter pipes or cables that are at least 40 mm apart and at least 100 mm from any other pipe, or • more than four 40 mm diameter pipes or cables that are at least 100 mm apart, or • a pipe which has a bore of not more than 160 mm and is of iron, steel or copper, or of a material capable of withstanding 800 ºC without allowing flames or hot material to pass through the wall of the pipe, or • a branch pipe of a bore of not more than 110 mm connected to a vertical drainage or water service pipe, constructed from aluminium, aluminium alloy, or uPVC to BS 4514: 2001.
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      Having just about finished a build in North Herts i can say that my ignorance of the building industry and not being on site all day every day has caused me grief. Trusting that a tradesman will do exactly what has been agreed has been my biggest source of grief. No excuses, my fault but annoying all the same. I can state that not one tradesman has done exactly what they were expected to. Apart from the tiling of the Kitchen floor. Little things mostly. Being on site is crucial. I rejected the Potton recommended Project manager option when i realised that the £40k fee actually only got me a one day a week site presence. For a little more than a 54 week build thats nearly £1k/day. I can recommend a good brickie and a good roofer though.
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      By Beelbeebub · Posted

      So, No, you can't define it then?    Here is the official definition    "to be aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)"    So throwing "oh look at you - so aware of important facts and issues" as as insult says more about the mindset of the insulter than the insulted.   But more importantly to this thread - it has absolutely bugger all to do with net zero policies except as part of the wider right-wing culture war.    I'm all fornsunding renewables. But here are some "important facts and issues"    The annual tax receipts from north sea production are about £5bn and as we have established production (and hence tax revenue) *will* fall. So the effect of drilling for that "good sweet oil" will be marginal. Revenue might be (at best) 1/4 rather than 1/4 of that in a decade. So say £1.5bn difference.    That's chicken feed at this scale.    We have also established that increacing out NSea output would not have made any difference in the current crisis. Our volumes are too small to affect world price.    But the cost of staying on oil rather than electrifying our cars (for example).    In April it was estimated uk motorists paid £2bn more for fuel.    It would be better to pay for the renewables from the potential £2bn a month saved than the £1.5bn a year raised.    So the "woke" NZ policy of transport electrification that seems to so enrage certain political segments well beyond any rational arguments would be saving motorists billions a year as well improving air quality.    
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      I know this is an old topic but i came across your post from a google search. i was thinking of doing the same foundations for a 5x3 garden room and wanted to know how the piers have held up? Thanks
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