Nickfromwales

You’ll be sending 2 different temps into 2 different manifolds? What is the methodology for FF UFH?

Your issue will be the rate of discharge when it’s regenerating. How long is the run of 28mm pipe, and where does it terminate? I’ll assume the worst and advise you make a ‘table’ for the softener as you’ll need to have some gravity fall for this to work reliably (or at all….). This is how I plumbed the last one in, where the pipe had to run some distance horizontally, caveat being that the traps were then much higher off the floor. The white square is the ‘softener stool’ that the client made for it to sit on. Left the underside open so bags of salt cubes could be stored under it to use up the space. The two waterless traps have 21.5mm reducers in the top, and the 2 hoses off the unit just poke into those by about 70-80mm or so. FWIW, there are few instances where you can install the softener directly on to the floor.

If you have both GF and FF UFH, then I assume you’ve allowed for a TMV on each manifold, and a buffer for hydraulic separation? You’ll need the flow temp from the ASHP to be at or slightly above the one that needs the highest output, hence you’ll need to be able to manage the temps per floor for the differing emitters and coverings.

Should we add that this typically pertains to 2 or 3 storey dwellings, and is relaxed for single storey?

Maybe lack of (known) FR of the infill material. But obvs should all be ironed out at the outset……just amazes me how much of this gets left to ambiguity and misadventure. See it all the time and it’s just crazy.

FR PB mechanically fixed over standard closers should be suffice, maybe if Dias that was bolstered with 15mm FR PB being the minimum acceptable material to form these barriers. Intumescent foam is flammable, go figure!?!?!

My point exactly. If fires not getting to it, it doesn’t need to be considered in the FR makeup. After 30 mins of flames licking something, in a domestic fire that’s fully involved, either everyone’s already dead or they’re outside watching the fire brigade do their thing. Steels only need FR PB over them if they’re exposed, for eg.

Not a great pursuit, especially if you’re getting robust advice from a random Welsh fella, one who’s been installing high end, luxury bathrooms most his life. Let us tell you when to worry. If something is worrying you that much, share it here. Pointless suffering needlessly in silence! Post a pic of the shower valve, or zap a link. I’ll advise you then. Simple as that

…..made of solid brass…. Are you planning on any WWF slam down matches in the shower? Or just bathing as we do here; 2 adults, 4 very unsympathetic children now teens hammering these things. Still as good and functional as the day I put these in, 7 or 8 years ago now iirc. Cheap as chips shower arm (380mm long for my 800mm wide bath) and the rainfall head was £8.99 on eBay. Died after 6 years of use / abuse, another £8.99 one went on. Looks like a £100 one, so sue me https://ebay.us/m/b0q0qC More money left over for beer. Chill out, it’ll be perfectly fine Can we see a pic of the connections on the shower valve plz?

And?

You use outside tap type angled backplates for the outlets to the handset and rainfall head https://www.screwfix.com/p/flomasta-brass-compression-adapting-90-wall-plate-elbow-15mm-x-1-2-/92934?tc=BT1&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=19822796606&gbraid=0AAAAAD8IdPyUGEfGZZmhJ90IDJw5JjdyE&gclid=Cj0KCQiAkPzLBhD4ARIsAGfah8hKcKRu6pms4b1EB6CpPB7-4xkBVO9bS-dQVLeJvDxI7Mgb0nVqyuAaAvBDEALw_wcB And.... Do exactly this (please). Not true of every single one I've ever fitted, and that's "more than one"

If it's 9mm PB then yes, but if it's 12.5mm with plaster skim coat then the 30 mins regs are satisfied?

I did! My version won't see the plaster vs frame junctions constantly cracking.

This is a PM position, not an architect, unless they have stated in their contract that they will PM the trades for you. Usually this is so eye-wateringly expensive, very few ever go this route. Architects are also very good at drawing houses, but are often not so dapper at building them.

Haven't looked at them yet sorry. Been an a few sporadic meetings already today, plus a few extra 'life associated bits' fell out of the sky; oldest son's Golf just decided to puke every drop of engine oil out in the university car park, so now I'm off to tow that to his mates unit and throw it on the ramp..........then he will say how many £££££ to fix the fecking thing. Usual Sunday.......should have stayed asleep ffs. Anyhoo... So, if you've paid up, and they've done the GA's and b regs drawings etc, then they're pretty much at the end of their works as far as you (and they) are concerned? The issue is now that the stuff they've produced isn't 'very good' or is it completely lacking in useable information for the builders or trades or yourself to take reference from?

Internal pre/post heater in the unit?

We’re perfectly fine, just that this was derailing the thread. Plenty of love left.

They have to underwrite everything done to date, and even if dismissed will be liable if anything was ‘duff’. What support do you think you’ll need going forward? A good architectural technician can support if it’s just to provide sections, eg organic works in isolation. Have you had b regs drawings done by the current architect?

I'd squeeze these lot for every once of blood I could get from them. Time to go at them to get what you expected to receive, or to ask for an adjustment in their fees to reflect your dissapontment.

I've not long got off a Teams meeting, with my new clients and the newly-appointed AT. It was a great meeting, ideas shared, bad ones guffawed at, and a high-value next step for the clients self-build adventure. At NO point, none whatsoever, should this be so fecking difficult!!

It's what happens, unfortunately, when unscrupulous companies see their client as subordinates. I've instantly dismissed more than 80% of the architects I've been asked to work with, based on easily demonstrable incompetence (and worse, over-charging).

Nothing would give me greater pleasure. For one previous client, the architect was a family friend, who said he would support on "mates rates". I got brought in when the wheels were starting to fall off the project (YAY!!!) and immediately confronted this individual for his dispondence. "I'm doing this as a favour so they'll just have to wait, I explained this to them". Tosser. I said it wasn't a problem as I had the clients agreement that we should lose this bell-end and introduce some new blood. All I wanted was the .DWG's converted to PDF's, and some stupid faux-pas corrected before hand. Not the world, and the sky and the chuffing moon. After embarrassing him sufficiently, low and behold, the requisite information started flowing. Prior to my employment, the clients had waited months for this muppet to get his thumb out of his (overpaid btw) ass.

Be honest. You must get a bee in your bonnet, as do I, watching these barely-qualified pricks take good money, in good faith, and deliver disappointing sack-full's of dog turds?

Respectfully, I am going to shut this dialogue down. That's quite enough. Please rest assured, that from BH's inception, to date, we have survived on our own framework and principles. We shall continue to do so as a successful, accidentally formed entity, run solely by like-minded folk, for all the right reasons. In the unlikely event that lost souls discontinue to arrive at our doors, we will close down and call it a day. Until then......."play ball". End transmission.

This.