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So to get a "level" thickness to clamp the tap adapters down: I first wrapped the adapters in insulating tape to take up any slack yet still be flexible. Put it "two rubber washers" down so as not to impede the clamping process. For a worrying minute I thought I might have to use blue and BROWN until I found an old reel of red! Cut a bit of marine ply (then sanded and routed a radius on all edges):: And a bit of stainless from an old kick plate (btw this killed the 38mm Erbauer hole saw): A couple of 3mm packs at the back stuck on with mitre bond: Putting the share price up of Sikaflex: Abraded and cleaned with meths (why not Multisolve or white spirit?). All feeling nice and solid, the nuts up tight against the stainless plate. When the Sikaflex is dry I'll tweak up the nuts:

Not always that directly - the old DHW / space heating question again. We, most of us, have been around the dwellings on this, our passive house design model shows we will need around 2Kw of heat, worst case - peak in a typical winter and max of 3Kw once every 10 years. BUT following a conversation elsewhere with @Nickfromwales we are going, as things stand, for a 35Kw Combi because we want to run two simultaneous showers at 10+ L/min and don't want the standing losses from a tank which @JSHarris has shown, and is discussed above, can be a problem in the well insulated home. The conversations above make the same point in that heating a well insulated home consumes a lot less energy than the DHW demand if we are all showering frequently as has become the norm or at the very least demands the ability to expend energy at a hi rate to recover hot water in standing volumes quickly in readiness for the next hose down! This is a classic 'no one right answer' problem - just an optimal one for each according to their circumstances....

Even in Germany, prices vary hugely, I have found out. What you can do however, is to refine your searching by searching for specific products using a price comparison website. Start with a known brand and product code. Then for example: make sure in Chrome you have the google translate plugin enabled and configured to translate from German to English go to a price comparison website such as idealo.de type in the brand and the product code (one number at a time) they will prompt you with the product you might be looking for - click on the prompt or just type the whole code in You will then see a display of all the various online plumbing suppliers. As discussed elsewhere ("I love megabad") some ship to the UK and some don't; some have better reputations than others but the point is, that once you know which suite (collection of components) you are going for, it becomes easier to pick a supplier (or two) who will do you the whole lot at good discounts. The other way you can use it is to navigate via their 'categories'. Example: you know you need a WC, and they have to be a certain size, but how to choose amongst the thousands available? Start off it Idealo's Plumbing and Fittings section: click on WCs (translation: Toilets LOL) looking very carefully, see if you can spot 'all filters' (you might have to try a couple of times) click and you then get a whole shedload of options that allows you to further filter, including by price (bottom of the screen) For example: seelct the filter 'less than 150 euro' select the filter 'wall mounted' click the button 'products show' ensure you are sorting 'price lowest first' and for example, you can see that the cheapest Duravit wall hung WC is 56.92 euro. (Nothing agaisnt Ideal Standard btw) Click on the WC and you can see that 56.92 is from MITI24; megabad are at 67.83 and skybad are at 80.75. Works for all kitchen and bathroom supplies!

I know it's a bit late now but when you had to enlarge the holes in the bath, if you'd made a jig the same as the piece of ply you've put underneath, you could have clamped that onto the top of the bath and then no danger of the hole cutter slipping.

If anyone is genuinely stuck, I'll translate for you if I have a moment..... but please use the @Fallingditch approach first. Ian

But then in winter the heat should only escape into the house anyway, this applies to all cylinder so called heat losses in winter and the heat again worried about far to much that escapees from hot pipes too.

Are you sure this won't be like St Paul's and completed by his children?

Please all, let's not take this useful thread any further off topic. The markets and exchange rates are what they are, and there's nothing to be gained from rehashing the hows and whys of Brexit. Thanks