Nickfromwales

Is this a gravity hot water system? Or have you had a combi boiler conversion?

That’s Donald Ducked….

Yes. Its potable water, typically coming from a stainless steel (ergo food grade) vessel. I often fill the kettle with hot water from my combi boiler, if I know it’s getting filled right up. Doubt it saves money but defo boils in less than half the time which is handy.

Half a job by the sounds of it. An email to clarify why this detail is missing is WAY overdue.

It's all about the prevention of backflow from the untamed cold mains > UVC via the hot pipework. If you'd have seen all the installs I have that went horribly wrong, done by clueless / careless / ignorant installers over the years, folk would have a much greater respect for these things. Adding a non return to the hot outlet of an UVC (single check, not a double!) and / or a secondary pressure reducing valve at the stopcock are all retro fit disciplines vs a complete new install, done from scratch; the latter meaning all mixer outlets are fed from balanced feeds. The G3 installation particulars shown in the Benchmark / MI's allows protection for things like mixer taps being changed downstream for 'non-compliant' hardware, which then introduce an issue later on, and more, so you may start with a 2 tap hole sink with separate taps = zero mixing, and then go and buy a monoblock mixer without non return valves supplied in the box, so you don't then fit one on the hot feed to prevent backflow, and then you have caused a serious issue (that you thought was a harmless upgrade). Nobody gives 2 shits about this, not even British Gas. Don't hold your breath looking for anyone to care about you getting roasted, as there are too many plumbers out there (on their mothers side).

Erm……it would be you drilling the holes! A 20mm drill bit for £5 and some time marking out is total cost there. Copy other ready made benches, considering their logic for where these holes are and why etc.

Clockwise is loosen / open btw.

Put a spanner on the hex nut to hold it still, and give it a slight tighten when you're done. The internals of this gate valve may have seized, as these don’t last forever and dislike being in one place forever and then being asked to move. If you’ve got a combi then you’re high pressure hot and cold, and gate valves should be replaced with lever 1/4 turn ball valves. Simple route is to switch off the stopcock to the whole house, drain down, cut the bath pipes and fit speed-fit isolators in , then put the water back on.

Less traffic / (vigorous) mopping etc? 2 of mine in my bathroom are almost white again after 6 years. Added to the list of shit I’ll never get around to changing, even as a 2 min job. Life continues in the background.

Replace with new for £20 ?!?!?!?

That has a much bigger head iirc, so stick with Monument.

I always leave a small up-stand at the threshold, so you have somewhere to apply a sealant, as these will see a bit of wind driven rain if opened in our typical weather. You can’t really seal (successfully) without creating a slight internal angle for the sealant to reside. I also would defo not just feather right at the last couple of hundred mm, like a ramp, as you’ll see that when the sun’s on it; minimum 500-600mm.

Lol. Glad it’s a fun and zero stress pastime you’ve gone for.

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5-6mm is like 2 x £1 coins on their sides…… Go and take some time to recall stepping in and out of every other doorway of any person you’ve visited in the last 20 years, and then reply here with record of each instance where you tripped over 10, 20, or more mm of thresholds. The results will tell you to put the magnifying glass on Gumtree and rejoin the rest of the population.

A chuffing tarpaulin. There, I said it. Have the installers asked you to do this?

Just beware, making a house uninhabitable can cause foreclosure on your mortgage, as it’s secured against a saleable asset. Once you remove electrics and plumbing, and rip out the kitchen, it is no longer habitable and no longer saleable as a residential dwelling. Stage the works around a jerry rigged kitchen sink, WC / basin / and some sockets still in operation, so the minimum criteria is upheld. Read the small print of your mortgage agreement twice over.

MBC and English Bros don’t, neither does Lowfield iirc. So “No”, and nor WOULD I want to use it as it’ll dry out and open up gaps, is shite for fixing regular wood screws into, and is heavy a feck until it eventually dries. Stick to good stock of C16 and C24 and be meticulous at the inner and outer sole plates, for DPC and cold bridging, and you’ll be fine for a half century.

The centre caps just pop off. Small flat blade screwdriver as said above; just don’t stab yourself in the other hand when it breaks loose.

Kinda conflicts with all the perforated, leaking copper heating pipes I have dug out over the years. There are loads of different laminate floor suppliers offering different finishes over solid wood or MDF, so you'll get something to match the LVT. DON'T use the chrome plastic collars as the chrome wears off with even just mopping etc.

Pay your carpenter to make some out of basic materials, simples; but make them strong as they'll be in for some use / abuse.

Same we do on every job. Plenty good enough tbh.

https://www.screwfix.com/p/essentials-pillar-round-head-high-neck-sink-taps-chrome/1045T?tc=ET2&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=4&gad_campaignid=19822795373&gbraid=0AAAAAD8IdPxbBfOOgbFQZBDBKKlA-OBpI&gclid=CjwKCAjwu53SBhAhEiwAJzSLNq2b0AkAWVP_gdXS5RH9YqsnjAX9ggTsoc_CrZZqxd6OSvDZs1eQtxoCBFEQAvD_BwE £20 brand new......