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I've been with them since 2019 and had no issues but then I submit meter readings online.

It's strangely mild weather in Bristol last couple of days. My unheated shell of a building is colder inside than out with condensate on all the exposed steels. Get some warmth into the place if you can

Yes currently I pay monthly based on my actual usage and meter reading provided by me.

They do a payment plan where you just pay for the month in advance, and then on the next months payment they refund/charge for any difference, I’ve found this quite a good one to be on and it’s never more than a few £ out

Can you get a look inside the guts of the NAS? I've seen some horrors in the enclosures of external kit, water literally running down components that then go t!ts up. Often a tell tale smell (like TCP).

HA , ip cameras , file storage , streaming , whole house audio etc etc etc - anything else I can think of !

Raise the NAS up on some blocks for a bit. Could be the hot NAS / cold shelf interface.

Some treatment tank manufacturers will not guarantee/warranty the performance if a softener is discharged into it. The quantity of salts discharged into the treatment tank will widely vary between softener and operation and the size of the treatment tank is also relevant in understanding the dilution factor. As mentioned above, in a normal domestic setting it's probably not a problem but it does have the potential to reduce the tank performance in certain circumstances.

I have a BioPure . Whenever I had a question, it was always promptly answered by the manufacturers. Here's their contact page I very much doubt whether water softner in domestic quantities will do anything to damage or slow down the general oxidation process. If you are fitting the same system we have, the oxygenation process is aided by the air pump: the trickle (so called) of air from the pump causes a 'full-rolling-boil' type action in the tank. Its very strong indeed

No, it's never been checked. I just use the nose test. There's no smell with the lid off then I'm happy. There is a huge difference between the old septic tank and the treatment plant in that respect.

What are you doing outside? You need your paving / decking or at least a step set so the sill rests on that.

Strangely enough the showers were delivered yesterday, I’ll open the box and see if the flow rate is quoted on the paperwork, other than that I’ll ask the supplier and get back to you for further advice.

Done! Factory reset and literally turned it off by taking fuse out and completely.

I agree, but we needed it for our RHI claim.

Yes and no ..! An accumulator gives you 50% usable storage so a 200 will give you 100 litres, 300 will give you 150 litres etc. The issue will be when you get two showers running - and it may even depend on the shower itself. If you had 2 showers at 9 litres / min, the accumulator will support the flow rate in RussDLs case of an additional 3 litres / min so will run for circa 30 mins. Up the showers to 12 litres / min and you’re going to be using a 200 litre accumulator in 12 minutes. This is where bigger is better, but that comes with cost and space requirements. Also, a lot of clients don’t know what they want at the outset of doing design and first fix when it comes to shower specifications so it does have an element of guesswork to it, so unless you spec “I want to support 2 Mira Digital xyz showers and one has body jets” when you’re asking for a design then it is sometimes more art than science. @Triassic do you know what showers you want and how many at once ..?

Being able to wear a T shirts and shorts in the middle of winter in my house is a goal that keeps me going! lol

So your neighbours sh!t on your lawn and you're a bit handy with woodwork. Payback time and problem solved all in one. Try and aim for their picture window:

Wow I did ok at £200 Such a con these air tests I wouldn’t be surprised if there wasn’t someone doing them online

@Mandana some of that seems to be your builder fixing problems and supporting the test. Saying that, the test price seems high too.

200 ish

£180 (no vat) a couple of years ago. One man for a couple of hours with a big fan and a laptop!

I think you should avail yourself of the usual free 20-30 minutes with a solicitor to find out if you have any claim, and under which process. Personally, I do not think you have a claim under any straightforward procedure. And that you will have to be content with dodging the bullet. However, I think you need the word from a legal professional. Plan B is to ask the ISE to make a ruling, which may or may not be possible. The SE himself will only bite once you demonstrate a high possibility that you can make a claim stick. Does your own household insurance cover it? I cant't see why it would.

You clearly have the advantage of serial scaled projects. I approached our build in the same way that I would have approached projects I used to manage in a large firm, which mirros exactly what you suggest. However, I've found that if you're building a one-off, which suppliers easily sniff out in discussions, they may not give two hoots what they've previously quoted (unless you buy within the quote window). My architect warned about this - as an architect he got better responses from some companies than I did because they're after the repeat business. For example, I've had several suppliers hike their prices when I came to ordering. I often wonder whether they do this because they know you're committed at that point. Here are some examples: Insulation: price for ground floor wall insulation originally quoted at just over £42/square meter for the full system at order the proforma invoice came to £71/square meter (maybe they were hoping I wouldn't notice). The company refused to negotiate. Roof cover : Original price at just 4300, wanted over 12000 at order then reduced is to just over 8k Windows: went from 22k to 29k even with significant reduction in glazed area as we had to reduce this due 'overglazing.' I've also experienced the wonderful tactic of the builders merchants to give you a good welcome discount only to follow up with awful prices worse than the local diy centres. And be warned if you want something not on your initial materials list you'll have to haggle for each item. That's not to say I haven't managed some major discounts by finding the right supplier and doing the negotiation. Even tricks like not buying throught a supplier's website but instead picking up the phone to speak to someone - many times I've received discounts of up to 30-50% on the web price. Now that I've got some building experience under my belt, when reps ask me I always tell them I'm a developer rather than self-builder. I've even registered a new domain name so I have an email that looks like a company. As I'm self employed, it's also allowed me to order direct from suppliers who don't deal direct with the public. This can save some pretty pennies too. All in all, I've found it to be like one big hustle and not surpised so many trades simply use Wickes and B&Q.

I'm confused why an oven has a demo mode? Does it roll the pastry and do the washing up or just sit there looking hot?

Yep. I'm going to try something else just had an epiphany.