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Thanks! So I don't have one of them?

Hopefully soon! His audience awaits

Why would everyone need one of those? Aren't they for gas or solid fuel? I don't have one here (electric heating).

Was that when @PeterW dressed up in my clothes when I was collecting that bloody flow switch from hundreds of miles away?

I think the fact that I have no idea what you’re on about is probably a good thing at this point What’s an HRC?

Yet another occasion where BuildHub would have come in handy. Hey ho!

Well that doesn't surprise me after they shoved in that MCB instead of the proper thing (that's still wrong as it happens). When I looked up what I had and tried to buy a replacement one it was dearer than what they wanted to fit. Guess they had some of the Firex ones lying round somewhere redundant. Nothing surprises me now TBH. I guess I can expect them to fail pretty quickly then .

Firex are the ones they fitted.

That sounds much more sensible. I hope I’ve got those now. TBH when the first one went outside the bedroom in the middle of the night (and it was loud!) I thought I could just remove the battery but no, desperate times trying to rip it out at 3am lol.

Or potato scone in a roll. I never get the double carb thing really lol. Cannae beat a bit of meat!

Thanks. I could find a replacement one online, but they didn’t want to fit it. Can’t remember what make it was now. They supplied and fitted all new ones. I will have to check what make they are. I will have to get a spark in to swap it over when the next one goes anyway as I wouldn’t fiddle around with mains stuff.

QQ on this if I may please. When the battery knackers you have to replace the whole unit? And if you can’t source exactly the same one you have to replace every smoke alarm? At least that’s what I was told by the sparks and I had to pay for all 5 to be replaced when the battery went in one (after 7 years).

Ain’t gonna happen. @Onoff is like ‘My Way’ Frank Sinatra. And if the BIL does the ceiling, every time he looks up from the bath he will think ‘I wish I’d tried’. It’ll all be good in the end; it’s just another twist in the bathroom bonanza

You’re making me feel guilty now as I didn’t offer pie!

I think @Onoff said once before that he only likes playing with himself and doesn’t welcome others in his workspace

Seems like they got the measure of you from the get go. You never told us you wanted to bang your SIL tho. Does the missus know? .

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better"

Plus the Aus guy was one of the directors of the original Irish company too along with the current director of Lilyash https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/NI039864/officers Very weird

One of the directors in Aus has the same surname as the director of Lilyash here. Just sayin . And he has a company registered in the UK since the beginning of this year: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/36FTeeA5AcM2V88k4v2Bp_kymng/appointments http://mail.nulok.com.au/contact/about/

And that 500,000 m2 is only in Ireland apparently so must be huge in the rest of the UK . I can't understand what market they are trying to target TBH since there appears to be no (or very little) attempt to market their product. There is no website, hardly anything on their Facebook page (and only 23 people have liked their page), and hardly any mention on the web in this country. I assume they previously marketed it through the Swindon centre as @JSHarris mentions but it appears that was through a different supplier. They seemed to have had a tie in with Kingspan at some point but I'm not sure whether that product is still marketed. https://www.kingspan.com/gb/en-gb/products/insulated-panel-systems/roof-panel-systems/slate-tile-support-roof-panels-with-nulok-ks100 The director has a LinkedIn profile but there isn't much info on there, although they seemed to have supplied the roof for a church in London but via a contractor called Ashford and Cranbrook Roofing https://www.saint-silas.org.uk/solar-roof-project.html http://www.cranbrookroofing.co.uk/Pages/stsilas.htm https://www.facebook.com/St-Silas-Big-Green-Roof-Project-326837713761/ That's pretty much the largest install I can find for the product and indeed one of the only documented installs I can find. So it's all a bit odd TBH! You would have to buy spare of everything I imagine just in case supply fizzled out at some point.

So go direct to the brand ..!! A quick email to the head office saying you want to place an order but can’t get a response from xyz U.K. disti and you will get pricing I can assure you ..!  I imagine the head office will just chase up the UK office to quote and you may still be paying over the odds. The thing that would worry me about the UK based company is its trading history since it appears to have been around for 17 years but at least 2 companies have been dissolved in that time and then reformed under a different name, but the current director features in all of them. So safeguarding my money if I was to purchase and they wanted monies upfront would be a primary concern. If they won't invoice you post delivery maybe you could arrange for the monies to be paid into a 3rd party holding account and paid once the delivery has taken place. So something like an Escrow account, but I'm not sure how easy that is to do. Certainly nowhere near as easy as paying a deposit on a credit card!

It's a big issue for me since paying up front in the form of cash leaves you completely exposed if a company fails before supplying the goods. Paying just a small amount on a credit card for goods costing over £100 provides full protection in the event that the company goes into administration under Section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act 1974, and it costs the company next to nothing.

Aye, for sure, but drives you demented at times lol. Sanity isn’t a prerequisite for self building, in fact many may consider us slightly insane .

Basin in the downstairs WC is another one that you want relatively quickly. It comes out slow in mine which means half the time I wash my hands in cold water as I can’t be bothered to wait.

That’s a great sentiment but it can be easier said than done when you are halfway through a job, unhappy, but then struggle to get someone else to pick up a half job. And even when you think you’ve chosen wisely things can go wrong. Self building isn’t for wimps for sure.