Nickfromwales

Let's not derail this thread please.

All in hand By keeping on....keeping on. Time for another winky-emoji...

Two separate subjects. Donations are made, not forced. Advice offered by PM is non-contractual and based on goodwill in equal measures. FWIW, some members on here have taken the piss out of me royally, now since departed (booted off) and had to be relegated to the sin bin of "disingenuous bottom-feeders". They now reside in the best of company, at the bottom. Members time here is offered up, and given, regardless; donations offered (then not always made) would not be subject to enforcement action by bailiffs It should be noted, however, that if you offer me a beer I will hunt you down.

Cracking idea. The Suffolk Meet Up Posse are currently thriving. Such a shame that Wales has a population of 1........

This is an ever-evolving banquet; new isn't new, by the time folk get planning permission new is out of date!! Laziness (and convenience seekers) has no cure. Buildhub is here for those who seek to find better advice and maximise on every opportunity that they have. FB is full of randoms, shooting fish in a barrel without challenge. Horseshit on toast, served in abundance. No you don't. You're completely confused. But lets talk about it

Let me know and I'll supply the sausage rolls and pink donuts from Greggs. He likes those, but don't tell his missus

You wouldn't drop it twice

And herein lies the problem folks. If they think they can pas the buck, or dodge a bullet, well......... However, if it's entered in early as a part of the remit, then they know they have to do it or not get paid.

Quite a sobering thread this tbf. I was not aware that this grinds folk down quite as much as it seems to, the old "self-build" malarkey....... I use BH to shed my brain of the excess energy floating around between my ears, quite bad ADHD etc, and an interest shared here and on eBuild, our home before Buildhub, where it's just nice to see and hear people ask questions and then have us lot intervene so they then don't have things go "tits-up". I'ts nice to have a hand in the prevention of such events. For any folk who are a bit befuddled or overwhelmed and want to get off the starting blocks with their projects, if this helps, I'm happy to do so some 30 mins Teams / phone chats FOC. I can offer advice for groundworks / substructures / superstructures, insulation and airtightness, right through to fenestration, roof and solar etc, or ask me which ASHP or MVHR is the best one to go for etc. 60 min chats not a prob, with maybe members offering up a small donation to the Buildhub coffers for our annual running costs or whatever. Buildhub is a free-to-join forum that is completely volunteer run and operated, and is not for profit btw. Without donations, it would not exist. I cover pretty much A-Z, so quite comprehensive, and if anyone is interested just ping me a PM and I'll slot you in when I'm between doing other stuff I imagine it'll be like a really coarse, Welsh AI lol. The caveat is, it'll be offered to contributing members only, so no piss-takers need apply IIRC @ETC offers up a bit of selfless support here and there, so it's not uncommon for good folk on here to give up their time to give struggling members an occasional leg-up. I'm sure a few other regulars help, such as @craig, other maybe going unsung so sorry if I missed anyone also deserving of a mention here. "Long live the Hub".

...is the one you will set out in writing, before any repairs are entered into, so they know beforehand that they can't cut any corners here. Fail to prepare......

Can I nominate a pub in South Wales? Preferably one I can walk home pissed from.

Is that tape and joint or proper wet plaster? Looks like tape joints and those crappy paper vs metal beads on the corners and edges.

Best to yank the band aid off and state that you’re not willing to accept substandard work, much as they wouldn’t accept you paying them short on a Friday

@jfb May be a good idea to add a TF1 mag filter.

Yup. 👍. We used to keep the worst ones, usually those off coal setups, where you literally can’t see through a 6” piece of pipe with the T in the middle of it. It was hard work to get a screwdriver through some of them. Heat only systems suck imho, and its system boiler / sealed and pressurised all the way these days. Just done a big job for another member here, and their brand new WB heat only boiler was a total PITA to purge and get going again. The only thing I didn’t touch was the biggest arse to sort out when recommissioning the UVC and heating etc. All the components (pumps / differential bypass / motorised vales / expansion vessel and top up loop etc) strewn throughout the locality up the attic….just WHY?!?! when a system boiler conversion would have been a doddle and deleted most of that 6m of gas pipe, and one lonely (broken) clip was their offering to secure said gas pipe. The only thing otherwise securing the gas run was the nut and olive on the jig of the boiler 😮. Embarrassingly shite work. All sorted now thank feck. I love attics, me.