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Yup. No VAT on potatoes. VAT on chips.

Use the 8x2

Dont go on dragons den....if you just want some odd pieces just have a word with a plumber for any scrap (which is probably better quality than new), most plumbers just leave it out for scrap men around leeds area

Plus it takes no account of expenses so massively punishes small businesses and self-employed Say 20% flat rate 30k a year salary pays 6k tax and has 24k taken home 200k a year tradesman with 170k expenses. Pays 40k tax and has a take home of -£10k Like it or not tax is always going to be complicated.

You maybe took as long to write the above that it takes to make 20 of them. For the cost just buy some pipe

I might drain the cylinder and try to remove the immersion heater for a better look inside.

Should a 30 year old HWC need replacing? Other than limescale and leaks what can go wrong? The water in the system is very clean and runs clear, it has been a sealed system since 2015.

Finally got decent looking snow. It accumulates on terrain and thaws.

Look at the plug the other end? Gen 2, proprietary plug either end. Gen 3, RJ45 plug either end.

thank you -which was what i was trying to get at --they have to be insulted no reply from builder yet will give him a few more days then email him again

Has anyone found a sensible place to buy pre-cut (e.g. 100mm) lengths of copper pipe to go between fittings? It feels like there should be a market for these as it would save time on site and are particularly useful for people using Hep2O and the other push fit poly systems that then need to reliably connect to compression fittings. I don't want to buy a 2m length of 22mm pipe and a 22mm pipe slice for the sake of 6no. 100mm lengths of pipe. The only place I can find these is on Amazon at high prices and dubious sources. I would happily pay about £2 each which is about double the current rate for 22mm Copper pipe at SF. Same for when I need 15mm ones.

Just had a look at the nominal value of retail sales, in May 2026, they were £9.6bn per week. If 0.01% of that did not go though the till, then that is £96m a week, or about £5bn a year (spring and summer sales are higher, so multiplied by 48 weeks). Now many people in the UK fell for BJs £350m/week on the NHS. So there is near enough a third of it just by people who think they are getting a bargain.

Then it becomes fraud. Whenever you see one of those signs in a small business 'We love Cash' often followed by reasons like 'we get to keep all of it' or 'No charges to the bank'. The trader is probably fiddling us all out of revenue. It is now cheaper to use card payments than any other method (we currently pay 1.6% per transaction value). To pay in cash at the bank costs us 3% and all the hassle of counting cash each night, checking the till float, putting right mistakes, storing a weeks takings safely and then taking it to the bank, which is realistically a 2 hour trip. Forgot to mention the 11% charge on getting change. If you run a small business these days and you do not use a card machine HMRC investigates you in a lot more detail. We had our first cashless night last month.

No. Cash would come back in a big way and not be declared.

OK a bit more info: + the Zehnder unit has the benefit of not being 'handed' (as it's switchable) but the drawback is that it's quite a lot physically taller - 850mm vs. 650mm. + the Brink unit seems to be consistently £600 more expensive than the Zehnder. + the Brink Vigor / Flair etc brand confusion doesn't inspire confidence. Which organisation will be supporting? Neither was my experience of their duct system which seem half-baked ... just like someone on their design team had never ever tried to install it. + both Brink & Zehnder seem to need an extra bit of electronics for web control. Although, in the end the built-in RS485 / Modbus might be the best control solution. According to Google AI (which I have not verified) the Brink units need an actual internet connection for the app to work, the Zehnder units don't. While the bigger physical size is a pain, I'm leaning towards the Zehnder unit.

Hi Had building control out to do to sign off my house and one of the things he asked for was the steel performance certificate. The issue is I do not have this and the company that supplied the steel do not have the records now as it has been over 5 years since the kit builder purchased it. The company that purchased it have now went into liquidation and disappeared. I have spoken to building control and they are not sure of a way around the issue, also have mailed my architect and they are not sure either. Has anyone come across something like this and how to rectify the problem. thanks for any help

They could start with income tax and NI. Flat rate on every £ that passes though your hands, then the argument just becomes the rate and not the principle. They could abolish Corporation Tax, the clever companies don't pay it, it is hard to enforce, just stick it on Income Tax. Then have a Sin Tax to discourage some purchases. That could cover anything from Carbon to Crypto Currencies.

This is an upgrade? It should be🤬 standard, that's why I assumed it was foam injection for the Energeto 8000

Worse if you go to use cooling as they’ll condense. B Regs will mandate insulation so they defo need to come back and rectify, even more so if it’s the feeds that run very hot for heating the DHW cylinder….

when drilling I have not seen any foam inside the frame Thermal upgrade is only to the glass 1) Argon Gas Filled Panes 2) Warm Edge Spacer Bars 3) Low E (emissivity) film JustValueDoors don't state anywhere what maker of the doors they supply or give any options of Aluplast doors. Perhaps I could inject the foam myself.

Sounds a bit like we've built layers upon layers of bureaucracy to achieve nothing except making us an unattractive market. An argument for removing the higher taxes and also the offsetting tax rebates. 'Back to basics' lol or maybe K.I.S.S.

I need some beams under a loggia (veranda) with 3.1m spans. The drawing calls for 2no. 8x2 but I'm tempted to go with a Glulam instead for the following reasons: Normal tanalised timber will twist / cup / bow as it dries. The two timbers being joined together would help that but still The total length of the beam is almost 10m including its bearings (atop 150x150 oak posts) so there will need to be joins between sections if done in normal timber. I can have a single length of glulam. Glulam is fun to say The downsides of the Glulam approach are: It's not treated timber It's more expensive: 8x2 joined together. 8x2 is around £3.80/m exVAT around my parts and I'll need to carriage bolts, timber joiners and square washers (£0.25, £0.23, £0.30 ex VAT) about every 400mm so that makes for a cost of £9.55/m exVAT. The Glulam is about £24/m + delivery. As the beam is exterior but under the cover of a roof eave the glulam suppliers are saying Service Class 2 is OK. I could make my own 95mm x 225mm glulam out of tanalised 4x2 at a cost of about £9/m: Timber: £1.60/m * 5 = £8/m Waterproof Urethane Glue: £0.331/m based on 0.16mm thick gives (0.16L/m2) * (4*0.045m) = 0.03L/m , £8.63/0.750 = £11.51/L -> £0.331/m (Soudal Pro 45P D4 professional waterproof polyurethane wood adhesive). Fixings: £0.45/m based on 1no. 5mm x 80mm every 400mm for each joint so works out as one every 100mm, 10/m and they cost £4.50/100 The eased edges would make for bumps in the beam which are a shame. Scant timber is actually more expensive (+33%) than eased edge and I don't know how available it is tanalised. Planing off the eased edge would reduce the timber to about 40mm and the glulam to 95mm x 200mm or raise the number of laminations to 6. It would likely cost a jointer blade too (£12) as well as taking a very long time. It will get painted, so I could not remove the eased edges and fill all the grooves with waterproof wood filler (120ml/m -> £1.50/m). Has anyone else been down this road, either buying a premade glulam or making one themselves?

probably ok to just remove it depending on the condition of the joists and their length, being so close to the joist pocket i doubt it would make any difference. If you are worried you could just remove a course of bricks and whack in a concrete lintel from one of the sheds, they are only about £15 for a 900mm one, then pull out all the bricks below. PS, im not a structural engineer.

Convoluted tax accounting?! Shocked I tell you! Shocked!

I did a quick search, would probably need a lot of unpicking to get to a £/TJ price which would be easier to understand.