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Thanks for the code and enjoy the ££:) Can't beleive they let you withdraw the credit as soon as it's there.

Yes. It looks fecking brilliant

I think it should be possible to have standard single wall black flue pipe into the chimney. Hetas installers will check the chimney is suitable for solid fuel.

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Glad you did it though? It looks good to me!

I did that in a room about 6x8m. It nearly killed me 😁 To answer OP, no gluing, expansion gap around edges. Used trimmed tile edging to cover the gap.

Stone Plastic Composite. Probably all the same stuff.

Happy to oblige. To be fair I’ve a big history of making people laugh, especially on the build. Shame it’s usually either at me or me work lol So I’ll be nudging into my ninth decade, and therefore one replacement = 30 years so that’ll see us both into our android staffed in orbit care facility. Like Wall-E but with fewer cocktails and more meds.

@Super_Paulie What’s SPC?

Hmm that's interesting..... With my 115 Litre old tank I'd have to heat the water to 60 deg C (was my legionaires cycle once a week) for it to stand a chance of a long soak in a bath that makes Mrs Alien happy (That would be initial fill and a couple of top ups) which would pretty much mean I got just enough warm water left for a shower. With my new 180 Litre tank I'm doing it to 55 Deg for her bath night (I'm just doing it earlier to allow for a longer heat soak) and she had her normal bath with top ups and I had a shower and then we both had showers the following day and still didn't run out of HW Rest of the week we heat to 45-48 Deg C I'm thinking I might drop it to 50 Deg for bath night and maybe move to a once a month "60 deg sanitisation cycle" - temp isn't going to be much different to daily target and it uses a fair chunk of energy to get the tank up to 55 compared to 48

Apologies.............

Couldn’t you join a twin wall flue to your chimney? Might not need a flue liner or chimney breast? Would need the advice of a HETA installer of course

im south facing with 2 sets of bifolds and its been fine. Mine is SPC for what its worth, but its ok so far.

when i was considering the flooring the first thing my man said was "no way with that size of floor area and a bifold door" it will always buckle and move about only suitable for small areas with no direct sun problems thats what he told me and said if i want to use it --he would not be doing the job

investigate and solve damp problems - do not try to disguise it find the problem and fix it once

We have a large area of agricultural slab, so it is just like hand mixing but with a very big shovel. I hadn't seen it before. 1.5m3 mixed in 20 mins. Without the slab it wouldn't work so easily. Could prob do it in the dumper but rougher and slower work. I was very happy not to be mixing and shovelling 1.5m3 using the small mixer.

Well I thought I was on to a good thing. I used a 1/2 brass nipple and the 1/2 ID 3/4 OD silver adaptor from the setup @Iceverge suggested. cover plate screwed on beautifully. Annoyingly, the threads are too close together! I used the back plate below so the spacing should be perfect, but something hasn't worked out right (checked that two shower mixers don't fit). I don't know if the bar got bent slightly and has the threads angled towards each other? I guess it's back to the blasted cranked connectors.

I was having a glum morning, dealing with insurance pricks, again, but that cheered me right up. PMSL.

I thought my digressions were bad lol. All depends on use and how you’ve set it all up / where it lives etc. If fitted in a typical UK home, brick and block, draughty, full of rads that will be on flat out to keep the place ‘almost warm’, and lots of high temp DHW runs, then I’d say you’d be lucky to see 10 years out of it. In your house, can’t recall if you have PV or not, it’ll live a nice ‘low temp life’ and prob last 15 years minimum. Subject to routine and preventative maintenance obvs, but in a nutshell if it moves it’ll break one day, so pumps = head and fan = handle, Trigger.

Sorry maybe didn’t make myself clear enough, I already have a chimney with a concrete flue liner already installed. So it would just be a case of knocking through to it and then inserting a flue liner, which I could then bring out into the living room

how long does a domestic fridge last for, it's the same basic tech.

So they last forever then. Fab.

I bet that finger could tell some stories…… 🤔

Yes. Stop stealing my over-dramatic thunder please. 🙏🤫🤐

Call that crud?