Nickfromwales

Never blame the staff, always blame the manager? If any of my subbies didn't do something properly I put it right myself, gave them a bollocking, and wages were chopped to suit. I chose relatively well throughout, apart from some who were more tortoise than hare, but tolerating poor staff is a choice. If you pay good money, you'll get great staff. Doesn't sound as if the money reached the lower ranks.

👍 Don't drill into the plastic components They're tight to the frame in places!

Maybe contact the NSBRC and see if they have anything?

Defo do not convert! Traps will go onto 32mm solvent weld pipe like a tramp on a kebab. 👌.

Connect the pressure gauge to a short piece of pipe with a cap end on it and test the gauge before doing anything else. If the leak persists, then connect this lot to the cold mains and get some water into it at cold mains pressure. That's how I test, and you'll soon see where the leak is.

You may hate me, but that flexi would have been the last thing I installed on the discharge of a Saniflow..... You may be ok with it, does it move at all when the unit is pumping?

You're welcome. PM me if you want to better understand my PoV.

Down and out then.

It's a Heat Only boiler . Best to leave it fire every 30 mins, as it's not exactly out of the expected use pattern for a boiler in a less-than-excellent ( thermally ) house. You can get wireless room thermostats, and getting it away from the cold at the front door would be beneficial.

Crack on, lol. My frame is starting to creak so I've opted to pay and observe, ( to make sure nothing gets damaged more like ).

What is your relationship to these works? Is this a question / concern for the builder, owners and council?

Leave as-is. No need to do anything more tbh. Exp foam would be my only suggestion as it is a cold mains so maybe you'd get condensation forming on it. Remove the clip, fill with foam ( behind the pipe ) and hold in place whilst the foam cures. You won't need the clip afterwards, the foam will grip it perfectly well, if not better!

It's a new build, so zero VAT?

Shouldn't we ask about the fabric / standard of the build before suggesting no stats per room? @hbooth Who designed the UFH and what calcs have been done? 1st floor should 100% have stats per room. To rads or UFH? If rads, then you'll have TRV's on each rad to give individual room temp control.

Another use for a small machine, which will pull out the stumps entirely, move a shit-ton of dirt, and yank out the majority of the roots to boot. Get a machine and not a stump grinder! Kill 3 birds with one stone ( cost ).

Legend, lol. I'm delegating, and at £800 a week for hire of a micro + powered ( lifting ) barrow, it's a no-brainer. 25m hike down my garden and through the side > front access alleyway = feck hand-balling. Would cost more than the machine hire. Getting the farmer to drop off his 14 ton trailer @ £150 a load ( inert only ) for muck-away 👌

Are you using a machine? Or doing it the "old fashioned" way?

You would be tar-free, sir, as the above is what is called "recognition and agreeable compromise". Apples for oranges in your above instance

Exactly the nightmare I would run away from. Also completely incorrect. As a contractor, I often get refused better terms when I buy up front ( as I do not want or need credit accounts ) as they see me as one-off business then. I have to basically tell them I'll go elsewhere, and THEN they'll magically give me the same ( better ) terms as account holders. If they'd sell to you directly and cheaper for a one-off vs selling cheaper to the builder, then the builder would tell the merchants not to expect to see any more of their money as they've essentially then undermined the builder. Merchants want life-long relationships vs servicing one-off 'hit & run' custom. For these exact reasons. My favourite is where the client couldn't get what was requested, so they "bought 'this' instead" which is useless, and un suitable. Usually because the client had very limited time to search / find / procure and that lets everything downstream fall to shit. At more cost. The client won't save money doing this, I assure you. Consider VAT, down time, bad taste from the arguments that will follow, losing traction and good people to it, and the fact that the contractors / builders will STILL want a 10% mark-up on the items you took out of their anticipated profit margins. Ask for this at the outset, and most builders will walk, as they know exactly how the rest of the job will go.....babysitting a micromanaging client who's savings schemes end up costing more in time, more in money, and frustrating everyone wanting to get on. Time is irrecoverable for everyone, and once it's gone it's not coming back!

I'd be ( as the contractor ) more worried about why my client couldn't or wouldn't pay monthly, in advance, or agree to stage payments in advance per increment. No way will I ever, again, give a client any form of credit. Been there, got the T-shirt, but not the circa £50-60k ( estimated ) that I'm still owed to date. These disingenuous scrotes of clients are currently using and enjoying the items I purchased, installed personally or worse paid to install, paid hotels and expenses to the subbies etc, fuel and more out of my back pocket. Clients and contractors are equal, IMO, and if an amicable agreement can't be made with my potential ( new ) clients, then it's "adios amigo". There is a huge amount of work out there, and I don't need or want to take the risk, again. Clients can make up any bollocks to sue a contractor but it is very different the other way around, as the courts favour the "poor victims" vs the professional ( who is assumed to have every T crossed and every I dotted ). There can be, the client just needs to recognise this and then justify to themselves that a representative needs appointing to this accordingly, and to whatever else they or the typical general builder won't know, understand or execute with any competency. It's one discipline that keeps me very busy, but clients often either don't see the value of appointing an M&E consultant, or get one in at the 11th hour ( more like 5 mins to bloody midnight ) and then expect miracles. This level of detail and the involvement of somebody appointed to take ownership / responsibility for delivering it needs to be in place well in advance of breaking ground, and then the client can insert this into tenders for the builder to be able to make costs and time allowances for the "additional" work, eg you've then turned an unkown into a known so it can be addressed and quantified, and monitored. Either that, or the self builder needs to get out of the way and go turnkey, a-la MBC's foundation > frame > airtight guaranteed package, which is newbie / idiot proof, but also very safe and simple.

With a Gas Safe Registered installer and certificate?

Welcome to the team. "What doesn't kill you"....... I've done 30 years of this, so suck it up and enjoy.

Lets look at this pragmatically, first! . Please remind me if you have balanced hot and cold supplies to each mixer outlet?

You do not need this with a "balanced DHW and CWS" system. Stand down Red Alert

Apologies, but does this have any direct relevance here? Again, ditto. Please explain what this refers to? And where, when etc?