Nickfromwales

I’ve just realised, you’re causing yourself a bit of unnecessary pain and suffering by not using fittings from the underground ( orange coloured ) range. These will give you 15o and 30o bends, whereas it looks like you’re mostly ( ore exclusively ) using 45o ( aka 135o ) bends?

Yup. 👍

Right…… Number one schoolboy error. On a run supporting something such as this, you need to fit a clip, on the pipework, immediately prior to each fitting either end. If it looks like a see-saw, gues what it'll do

Just chuck an 80 grit flapper wheel in the grinder and dispense of these acts of tomfoolery…..

@pocster spent 1/2 a day trying to charge them before fitting them……..

Silence, fool. PV then, indirectly, but Steibel Eltron ASHP install this week…..( well almost, was a fail to launch today, even with the best will in the world sometimes it’s better to re-convene…. ). However; Never too busy to prevent you from giving poor plumbing or grouting advice.

“Disappointed”? I’ll be absolutelyfcukingbesidesmyselftothepointofinconsolable ……..

The only failed tiled floors I’ve replaced have been where a binder such as ply or membrane hasn’t been used At the absolute minimum you must install a 3.6 ( aka 4mm ) plywood binder, glued down and screwed at 100-120mm centres to give something for the adhesive to get its teeth stuck into. That, or a decoupling membrane such as Ditra. Unless you hugely improve the insulation ( and draught-proofing ) then I would not go with UFH. You’ll be running it nigh-on constantly in the winter, in an ever-losing battle against the significant amount of ventilation and fabric heat losses associated with this type / age of structure. To put UFH over a cold-ventilated subfloor is a difficult task to manage in terms of heat and energy requirements, even in a modern build with block and beam. Rads will give almost immediate heat to the spaces, so you can time the heating-on times to better suit your needs. UFH will likely never turn off in the winter, instead you’ll be toggling between economy heating tempos and then comfort to stave off the long recovery times that the UFH will promote. If you can install some 20mm strips of Compacfoam atop each joist to kill off cold bringing then that will pay big dividends from not creating cold ‘spots’ at each junction, plus that’ll allow you and additional 20mm void to fill with more PIR.

Not anyone I know, and not on any of my turnkey passive clients builds…… Prob best to leave him keep running, as he prob just doesn’t understand what is required to maintain the airtight envelope.

Rads with TRV’s vs UFH in plates, pipe, manifold, pump, blending valve, actuators, individual rooms stats and wiring….. Doubt it, but DIY can reduce this a fair bit.

Turn all other loops off during the day, drop the temp and run the new loop to “thermally shock” the new screed, and reverse for the evening. Do that once or twice and you should be fine to go full throttle as normal.

Not good advice. Sorry. By the time you next look, they’ll have started to rust, irreversibly if this IS water leaking and not pipe compound / other contamination from the installation.

What they may have used is what I buy for 1” - 1”1/4 and over; Link I used Stelrad, when still promoting setting fire to stuff to heat homes. They do a range which have slightly curved cosmetic grilles / side panels which look very nice for not much more. Myson stuff is very good too. Screwfix and B&Q, iirc, sell Kudox stuff. Big bags is shite when they first started selling them, half height convector panels presenting less kW per m2 is radiator size etc, crap covers, and almost every one I fitted was already rusting from the wet test. The biggest annoyance was the lack of paint at the pipe connection bosses where, when you removed the plastic factory plugs, you’d have bare metal exposed where the paint came away with the plug. That’s where the rust starts. I looked at them the other week, and now seem improved. Can’t say I’d buy one though, sorry!! PM me with which is your local branch of Wolesely ( aka Plumb Center ) and I’ll see what I can do for you. You’ll need a list of everything you need ready to go.

Sadly, when the shizten hits the fan, conversations / spoken words mean zilch. It’s ONLY what is in ink ( email / text / WhatsApp etc / scribbled on a bit of loo roll ) that makes any difference whatsoever if you wish to attack or defend. All the good will in the world means absolutely nothing. Customers can keep taking, refuse to pay for all the things they asked you to do, agree that they are elegant solutions, but then just switch off where you ask for payment. If things were written down and agreed beforehand, as they should always be, I’d be better off right now to the tube of 5 figures myself, so know that is a fact. Even if you write it for someone ( who’s sword is mightier than their pen ) and they receive it from you, you’re 100% covered for any recourse.

Just watch it. You’ll feel better. Trust me.

And now…something completely different….

It’s a shame that site doesn’t list lying scumbag customers. I wonder if any self employed members here have had issues with non-paying customers. May not be an isolated instance. The worst ones are those who think their in the right, in the wake of people with families to provide for, that have not paid what is due, with witnesses, and who have manipulated the “system” to their benefit when the people they should have paid were most vulnerable..,., These people disgust me. The lowest vermin of society.

Only if that is your only defence…….. Those who wriggle off the hook are not worth catching. Go clean the slime off your windows.

Indeed. The sediment-sucking (expletive deleted)tard I worked for on promise of payment owes me over £10k. £1100 for works unpaid for, for lighting in his kitchen, changing power feeds to the unannounced changes to the ovens, and more. The biggest piss-me-off we was the fact he moaned like a little bitch about me not coming to do X,Y & Z, and then, when I employed a second trade to come and do these things, he BEGGED me to deviate, which I contested, to do the extras in the kitchen diner. Then NEVER FCUKING PAID ME!!!! No matter HOW much this bead of sweat from the base of my balls, tries to justify the way he SHIT all over me, he will NEVER be half the person I am.

The entire reason that my business doesn’t need a website. People can meet me, do they or OWN DILIGENCE, and decide if they wish to do business with me or not. A very simple mechanism, agreed, but followed up by my insistence, then, of a robust and written contractual agreement where both parties understand what is to be given / expected. it’s regrettable that I had to take money from my bank account and put it into someone else’s property without reward, or even thanks, less their endless pursuit of smug happiness. The joys of owning a business based on the hope of sincerity.

No.2 all over sounds like my last, adverse, curry house experience……

Slime is probably a big issue.

Indeed. And the aforementioned case is mostly my fault. The alarm bells should have started ringing when I realised this guys wife was scared of him. Clients are as bad as companies, and you ( and I ) should NEVER go on faith alone. It’s a sad world we live in, where someone’s word means, absolutely, the square root of fcuk all. The only upside from these experiences is, that my business now functions with sufficient defence mechanisms that I cannot ever fall fowl of the first 2 bags of shit that I unfortunately ended up working ‘for’. The best information available on this forum is to follow the correct avenues and stick to them like Velcro. It’s a very nice thing to have a good rapport, but the devil is in the detail, and that detail being in writing. There are no friends in business, and I’ve learned that the very hard way

Yes, but it’ll need some woodworking skills!!

Not laughing now?