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I've toyed with getting one TBH as I'm on all electric here at the mo but I'm not sure whether the cost vs performance would add up. Mind you after all the effort it took to get my heating working I may be better leaving things be .

Silence may not be the worse thing he has to worry about if he does that .

Tell her it’s called Diamond cos it shines bright like a diamond ?

Thanks! Would somewhere like Plumbnation have the seals or do I need to get them from a ‘parts’ place?

I can see the need to not upset tenants but it seems to me that the quality of a job isn’t influenced by whether someone will invoice or not. Cock plumber invoiced.

Just pour it in a tin with the labelling of her dreams

Tell him it takes you over budget so at present no one will be getting the patio and paving work. £54 m2 just for labour to lay the slabs is ridiculous given he quoted £46 for supply and fit previously. How can it be more expensive if he is not having to provide the materials? I wouldn’t be happy either.

Go for matt on the ceiling. Why do you want it shiny?

A couple of free books (at the time of posting) about Nikola Tesla. And if they're rubbish, well they're free so just delete them https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B075MH3N2M https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nikola-Tesla-Imagination-Invented-Century-ebook/dp/B00CATSONE/ref=pd_sim_351_3?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B00CATSONE&pd_rd_r=d7b1cc4a-8081-11e8-915b-ad4d0e8dff36&pd_rd_w=5BPEY&pd_rd_wg=70pv6&pf_rd_i=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_p=3274180622111699416&pf_rd_r=6GAM0JY073T45BH3Y1S2&pf_rd_s=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_t=40701&psc=1&refRID=6GAM0JY073T45BH3Y1S2

So you asked him to quote for X and he was happy to do that and provided a price, now you've asked him to quote for Y and Z too and he's threatening to withdraw the quote for X unless you contract him for X, Y and Z? That sounds pretty poor to me. I have to say our groundwork contractor offered a reasonable price to start with but anytime we wanted something fractionally different the additional cost came in way above what we felt was reasonable when compared to the price of the original job. Almost like he felt he would use the opportunity to maximise his profit. And in the early days before we wised up he would 'suggest' things that could be done slightly differently but we soon noticed that he was changing a considerable amount extra for each of these little suggestions, some of which didn't amount to much, so we kept having to say, just get on with what you've been asked to do. On the odd occasion when we did want one of his suggestions we asked how much extra he would charge immediately and decided based on that whether we wanted it or not. Maybe the ground worker feels that he has underpriced the original quote? Did you have other quotes to compare it to?

I wish! Interestingly the LA next door to mine installed ASHPs in some of their social housing properties in off gas areas. http://greennetworkforsocialhousing.energysavingtrust.org.uk/CaseStudy.aspx?cid=1149 There were complaints from some residents that the noise was ‘like torture’ apparently

Ah well I’m paying it tax paid from my salary with no chance of offsetting anything anyway. I struggle to get people out here to begin with without making ‘no cash in hand’ one of the conditions. I don’t care much as long as they do the job and do it well.

They all want cash in hand round here IMO!

One of the last local plumbers I had here charged me £35 per hour. If I had been pleased with what he had done I would have been fine with it but he charged almost £700 to do something that @Nickfromwales and @PeterW ripped out completely hence I want to make better choices this time.

Would RHI payments be a reason to fit an ASHP to offset some of the cost?

The last fixed price job I had done here ended up costing me over £500 a day (for joinery) as I clearly didn’t understand how long something would take and he seemed to capitalise on that. So with that in mind I’m keen to understand roughly how long things should take when I attempt to get someone out here. I need to get a plumber out to fix various things left over from my plumbing disasters in this house. This is what needs doing in the bathrooms: 1. Maintenance of 6 cisterns. I’m not sure what’s wrong with these other than none of them work properly. Mostly when you press them the water continues to run afterwards until you stop it. I’m not sure if they all just need adjusting or they are all faulty. @PeterW thought they were these: https://www.plumbnation.co.uk/site/abacus-direct-easi-plan-wall-mounted-1180mm-wc-frame/ If I could turn the clock back I would buy Gerberit but too late now and hindsight is a wonderful thing. So assume they just need to be adjusted for now. 2. Replace a tower shower with a new one. I’m hoping that the new unit will just go directly where the old one was so no tiling issues to worry about. 3. Fit a shower. The plumbing has been done and a bar shower was fitted there previously. It just needs a new one installed. It’s a surface mounted one, nothing needs to be done behind tiles I hope. Just looking for a rough idea of labour time please. I was thinking that it might take a couple of days so a max of £500?

Plenty of them surely? Surprised you didn’t find your bath and bog there

Goes with the territory in Bidonville surely?

Isn’t that the car with the wanky engine?

The current regs? No idea when mine was last inspected. The meter readers just take a reading and mostly I’m out so they leave a card and ask me to take the reading and pin the reading to the door or a window so that they can take the details the next day.

True, but they could just make it a condition ‘in areas where this functionality is available’ I guess.

How long before we are told that the tariff is higher with no smart meter? Bit like paying a higher tariff for paper bills. That won’t have anything to do with an economy tariff or not though. If energy companies are going to be fined for not meeting smart meter targets you can be sure they will be looking at punitive measures to ‘encourage’ customers to take a smart meter. Could even be a condition of moving provider in the future I guess.

So you mean you’re not a cat with many identities? I am disappointed ... ?

and ain’t that the truth! A sense of humour is essential here so you’ve passed that test already @Digmixfill is one of the nut jobs already

Indeed, but marketing, education, detailed information and solid case histories are the way forward almost 150 years on. I had never heard of Sunamp before I joined this site (and the main office is just down the road from me) and I suspect that 99% of the population won’t have either.