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At least your first name isn’t Frank ?

We actually got it here http://cmsdoors.co.uk/ as they're an approved reseller (all made to order from the same factory). I found them much more responsive than the RK UK team who I suspect were a bit snowed under when I was buying.

Well it’s 530am Just had a text saying our German kitchen will be with us within the hour I’m just keeping my fingers crossed that everything is there I should have enough time to get it loaded in before I go to my day job Im hoping to fit it over the weekend and get the quartz worktops guys down to template on Monday About two weeks to get those made up We are cutting things fine with our buyers looking to move into our current home as soon as Stairs promised for two weeks Ive an eye operation booked for the same day Fingers crossed I can fit the stairs the following day Hoping to get a free day next Friday and have a look around the homes exhibition If anyone is going I’ll be the tired looking one being dragged around all the home furnishing stalls Seriously it would be good to see anyone that is going on the Friday

...What? Taking the broom out? How big is this broom ?

I’ve not long bought a new 18v makita brushless angle grinder Get your ass down the M4 and I’ll sort it out lunchtime Saturday ? I’ll even get a new blade, plus I’ll do it for half price ??? “mates rates”.

You can set two different flow temperatures, one set by the heating curve parameters and another set by the DHW temperature parameter. To switch between the two needs a connection to the DHW dry contact in the ASHP; when that is connected to 0 V the DHW setting over-rides the heating temperature that is set and the ASHP delivers hotter water for DHW. There's also a switched 230 VAC output available from the ASHP to operate a three port valve, so that the flow can be redirected to a hot water tank when the unit goes into DHW mode.

If you want to include a non-alcoholic choice, take a look at Aldi's 'Zero point zero'. It's in the fizzy wine section, looks like a swanky bottle of prosecco. It's a non-alcoholic bubbly but tastes lovely, quite dry and nothing like standard soft drinks. Also, it only costs £2.49 for a bottle, so easy to add in. I served it up to a bunch of girlfriends recently and they nearly fell off their bar stools when I told them what they were drinking - a big thumbs up to it from a blind taste test.

Ebay item 123324209319 any good?

Ive got the. neohub which works on wireless network and wireless room stats which is partly why I asked. Neohub was a bugger to get up and working properly. but once it got sorted it works well on phone or ipad.

Not sure it’s a straight swap as you need to get both neohub and neoultra which is a fair bit more work. Will have a look

Bite the bullet and get the latest unit, swop for the neoultra , offers lots of functionality , takes 2 mins to wire in ( uses the same wires) and works on your phone with the neohub. 96 quid cheapest at the mo. Pretty confident it should be a straight swop.

Wine would be my choice too. A bottle of red and a bottle of white, or just one depending on how much you want to spend.

Lidls do Chateauneuf du Pape for under a tenner...

Beer or wine always goes down well - I made a judgement as to whether they were likely to be beer or wine people and gifted as I thought best, with two exceptions. One was for a great chap who's partner was about to given birth to their first child, so I though a bottle of bubbly might be more appropriate and one was a chap who's young lad was terminally ill and who was fund raising for the local hospice, so I felt a donation would be more appropriate.

I gave a good bottle of red wine

I know the feeling . Sometimes it all sounds so simple until you try it too!

@newhome I might have given it a go if I could physically get myself folded into the space it needs to go in but unfortunately I have a back problem thats means I cant. Its an absolute nightmare having to lie flat on the floor under mvhr every few days to fill trap with water. I have to slide in and out like a worm and be drugged up on painkillers to do it. If it had just been swapping one trap for another may have been do able but sadly not. So hoping I can get a plumber out soon. Feel hugely frustrated and annoyed I cant sort this myself now lovely chaps on here have given me solution

It will look crap ..... sorry but you've made a cracking job so far, and cutting holes in it to put pointless tat into the tiles seems a waste of time and will spoil what you have done ..! what is wrong with putting your hand under the water to see if it’s warm...??

It was bugging me where I went wrong to end up with pissy little rips up by the ceiling. After all the model I made showed reasonable width cut tiles top and bottom. The culprit I thought was the shower mixer positioning. The model had it on a grout line but I put it in the middle of a tile. But no, that wasn't the issue. Decent tile size at the floor and 4 full tiles up to the pocket. So then I'm thinking some form of accumulative error. Not that either... The culprit...ME! The floor to ceiling height is nom 2470mm. I made the model 2570mm! 140mm tiles at the top would have looked better than 40mm! Tbh with slight tweaking I could have had a slightly higher pocket, near full tile at the ceiling and near full tile at the base. Also no rip along the window sill. Never mind.

Roughly 78% nitrogen, 22% other gasses including small quantities of dihydrogen monoxide?

Firstly they used this new fangled "insulated concrete" mix. When the form work went up, there was about 100mm thick slab of EPS in the middle with spacers to maintain a gap. It was arranged so there was a thin layer of concrete on the outside side of the insulation slab, and a thicker layer of concrete on the inside of the insulation slab. The tie holes that held the formwork together and the spacerrs for the insulation slab were plugged with concrete plugs when all set and formwork removed.

Gary, have you tried putting a broom where the sun doesn't shine and sweeping up as you go along? Cos frankly it makes me knackered just reading the amount of work you get through. Give Deborah my regards, Ian

I think if the concrete had been better detailed and executed it would have looked OK, but that is very difficult and expensive to achieve. A feature wall or corridor internally may have worked better. The ceilings looked like those at @pocster's place! The finish from the shuttering was poor. I am not sure if the formwork contractor had used the system before but I was not impressed with them. I have seen some excellent concrete work. They could have had timber plank pattern or exposed aggregate. A fail.

It makes a massive difference moving the air pump from the GRP compartment in the top of the unit to a solidly built housing. I made a stone chamber on a solid concrete base to house our pump and alarm system. Not only did it reduce the noise so that it's now practically silent, but it also makes checking and servicing the pump a great deal easier.

I guess you've been in the tank rooms at the Tate Modern Jack.....fabulous. I think so...would probably suck up another £25k to make it more pleasing overall to my eye, but a fair bit more to elevate it beyond just getting 'over the line'. Meanwhile I suspect the owners love the fact that most conventionally minded people don't get it.

When doing jobs like that I always put masking tape along the tile edge and then when it squidges out it's easier to peel off and it means using less wipes.

We watched the shop last nigh, my first reaction was what about the cold bridging and my second, how the hell are they going to insulate that! At the start he was enthusing about curves and form in the skate park, he’d have probably been better walking the TV crew around the local multi storey car park! All in all, a nice idea poorly executed. The one good thing to come out of it was praise from my wife for my recent ICF pour, 26m3 into 3m tall basement walls and no leaks.

Wow that seems a lot to do but all the good bits as you see real progress. Do be really careful after eye surgery though. I don’t know what you are having done but working in a dusty environment isn’t generally advised, and eyes are precious things.

Good luck with all that!

I'd probably be more Stan and Ollie!

I had hoped we would be finished by now and I would do a photoshoot of the house, but it is dragging along. We are mainly doing landscaping and snagging. We finally have a driveway, the resin bound top still has to go on. They seem very intent on us taking a specific colour and we are suspicious that is just what they have readily available so have refused to install it until we see more samples. I hated the untidy bush along the road in front of the house, I thought it really let the place down, so I applied to build a new fence and then we tarmaced the pavement. Hopefully the neighbours are enjoying their nice new pavement. The lights are connected up on the stairs and I think they just look fantastic. Driveway, gates are also going in. Pavement and hedge before we tidied it up New pavement and fence Stairs

Well the inside of my house regularly looks like a bomb's gone off, so maybe you're onto something.

See Kevin Mc loud is wearing glasses now but clearly they’re not working after watching the build tonight which he thought was beautiful, I wouldn’t like to try selling it!

Yup. Dead simple. If your solar diverter isn’t in yet you can just bridge 230v in the SA Qontroller and it’ll run happily that way as a temporary measure for proving. Tell your guy it’ll have a bit of an on / off ‘crazy 5 minutes’ with the contractor kicking in and out a lot, which is supposed to happen. It’s to pulse heat in at the start and allow the PCM to start melting gently from the crystallised form. Sounds like something between electrical arcing and a scrumpled up crisp packet quietly unfolding. Not loud, but quite off putting when firing up your first unit

I'll sort it for 8 cans of full strength lager. Simples. I constantly hear of MBC's willingness to just sort whatever issue(s) have arisen. Hats off to the teams, collectively, for removing any headaches this could have caused you. Onwards, and upwards!

Yours may come under the category of 'paid extra for high security locking' then. Maybe it's some of the cheaper doors of this type that don't have as many multi point locks? Not sure. As I say it was just something I was told. That sounds awful for your friend. Sadly I think if they want to get in they will ?

This mght be rubbish but I was told that the locking mechanism wasn't as secure with these vertical type handles (compared to the normal handle type) unless you spent ££ upgrading the locking mechanism?

As expected they did not turn up yesterday and are ignoring texts and not answering calls. SO regardless of how hard it is going to be and how much I have to pay I have no choice but to find someone else.

All off!