Nickfromwales

They’re definitely notable on the higher setting, so deffo go for the 2-speed. These also come with a remote control ( hard wired usually ) to save your back . Remember to factor in maintenance as the heat exchanger needs periodic vacuum / brush cleaning ( or possibly blowing through in situ with compressed air ) to stay efficient. As these suck air in down st floor level they are prone to dust / hair contamination which will eventually render them ineffective.

Just buy a regular socket and one with just 2 or 4 locations tabs ( bump stops ) and ping them off with a small cold chisel. Instant slip coupler and no trip to the merchant if you already have one to hand ?

I always go to 28mm if there’s anywhere near that many bends. In honesty I can only recall a couple, where they were 22mm for a couple of metres and straight out, where I didn’t upsize.

On an UVC always, but, you can get away without one on primary circuits as it’s just the volume of expansion to get rid of. BCO’s never chase on that but are all over D1 & D2 on potable as it’s drinking quality water being ‘lost’. There are several waterless traps ( sealed ) which are transparent, so you can use one of those if a visible discharge is required internally. Where it runs to an outside wall you can rely on that as means of visible discharge.

You don’t really need the tundish as it’s not potable. Change it to a waterless trap if you’re getting draughts coming up

I’ve never seen a shower trap that isn’t top access ?. The grille on the top usually needs a tool, like a crotchet hook, to remove that part but they have bucket sieves inside in most cases where that catches the worst of the hair / other. FWIW, some don’t appear to be serviceable, but are.

Firstly, why would you consider a deep tray? They’re not exactly ‘beautiful’..... The litres per minute discharge rate is what usually dictates the size of the waste. A slimline tray is deemed more likely to need efficient means of discharge, hence the larger diameter, but the deeper trays can use a bit more gravity to get rid of water. Suds are the nightmare so cause most issues, but make sure the traps regularly cleared out and you should be fine. To be honest, if the waste pipe work is in 50mm instead of 40mm ( 2” instead of 1.5” ) then that will pay huge dividends. 50mm gives a decent air break ( air can travel back up the pipe over the discharged water travelling down it giving relief from any vacuum happening ) and is something I practice without exception. Taking the chrome cap off the shower waste will also show how badly the suds stop natural discharge.

Yes, it’s time / volume / temp that dictates the permissible discharge regs. Also, iirc, all modern plastics can tolerate high temp for quite long durations. That’s how communal UVC’s ( dozens of them ) can be connected to a foul water riser without issue. Some more pics of a sealed / expansion setup. PRV yet to be connected. That’s the port at the rear of the angled brass union with the small red cap

B is the 3/4” female union that the expansion vessel screws into..... A is the pipe that you want to tee into.

@Russell griffiths Will this be facing true south, or can you get an E/W or E/S/W array? I assume it’ll be mono pitch to match the house though? We’ve not long done one which was 135m away from the garage, where the AC batteries and CU2 reside, and that’s spewing electricity out. No issues with remote install whatsoever. As said, just hook into the garage CU, but, knowing you, I’d put a 25mm2 SWA between the house CU and the garage to allow you to run some big stuff in there too. Don’t forget the laundry room will need a decent supply also, so allow for a 16mm2 to that too. Price hike in buying bigger cables now vs future costs of up-sizing later are pennies . Also consider people coming with EV’s so the outside feeds will then be future proofed against that too.

If the stat says it’s up to temp then it won’t come on. Try turning it to max ( 30oC ? ) and report back after 24 hrs.

That’s how I used to populate CU’s on my bread & butter work, eg where an all RCBO board wasn’t cost-effective enough for a client but they still wanted segregation. For me, it’s now ‘all RCBO’ or nowt. Just way too many plus points to consider going back to split / dual arrangement.

Quinetic do dimmers too. If you use all IP67 switches ( for no official reason ) you get the single push ( reactive ) type switch and they’ll all match. Also, these all look the same when used in 2G / 2-way arrangements. Eg you don’t end up with one switch ‘on’ one switch ‘off’ alongside each other. Acceptable for normal human beings of course, but OCD freaks like that kind of thing

Agreed, but I was more than impressed by these Quinetic stuff. Utterly faultless and a fantastic solution. I use them to put light switches inside bathrooms ( like on the reverse of a free-standing bath ) to switch between main and feature ‘relaxation’ lighting whilst taking a dip. Last place I used one was behind 300mm of waterproof reinforced concrete ( so a bit of a cage ) and it was on the inside of the garage wall. Transmitter ( switch ) was about 25-30m away at the carport and it works flawlessly. I really didn’t expect it to work so well in such an adverse s situation, but work it did, and still does. Connect up the receivers and take a walk with the switch. You’ll be surprised how far away they’ll still work.

Cut the back out of the 2G to get 2x rcvr in there.

Maybe put a 2G box alongside the required one and put the receivers in there with a 2G blank plate over the 2G box?

Are you and @Onoff related by any chance? .........?

Have a read here;

I always use clear CT1 to do the fundamental sealing, for waterproofing etc, wiped back to the point it’s not noticeable, and then apply the most minimal bead of silicone I can get away with. Silicone doesn’t last much more than 5 years or so, after being wiped / cleaned etc, so I treat silicone as a sacrificial, cosmetic seal rather than the fundamental and cosmetic seal this chap seems intent on creating in one go. A good video for ‘DIY / daily drivers’ but not what I do. The last thing you want is for silicone to get a hairline gap and start letting water in constantly, whilst you carry on bathing / showering x times a day and the water is merrily soaking into the house structure for the duration, undetected. I’ve done loads of insurance jobs where the room looks immaculate but the studwork and plasterboard are completely turned to mulch. That’s been solely down to tiny amounts of water being absorbed by the fabric of the house, day in day out, over a number of years. One job where I could literally just squeeze the 4x2 and wring it like a sponge. Two bathrooms back to back so the bath hid the leak from the en-suite shower until the downstairs ceiling eventually gave up the fault. Finished that job on a new years eve, ( just as their guests were arriving I was getting shown out via the ‘staff exit’ ), and not even a cold beer or king prawn in breadcrumbs made it in my direction. ?

Mixed bag here because I’d have recommended using a flexible waste to alleviate such a baptism of fire. FWIW, a large number of tray-specific traps come with a flexi and in some of those instances you have to use it. Ive been fitting barrooms for a 1/4 century and I’ve never had a come back from a flexi. They are thinner walled, they do have grooves / undulations, but it’s just water and no solids so, apart from a build up of ‘human / soap fatty scum’, ( which builds up in a rigid waste pipe JUST AS WELL I ASSURE YOU ), there is no issue using a flexi at all. If it’s out-stretched then it could benefit from being supported, but after that I’d never say it was to any detriment whatsoever. If the supply waste pipe is rigid with no movement X/Y/Z then you will need to be mm perfect in the execution. No twist, and finished plumb and flush to the waste hole and aligned dead centre. Good advice given about mocking this up dry, but some fittings will bind and not allow you to push them home as they will do when lubricated with the glue. Gaining 2-3mm over 2 or 3 fittings ( during re-assembly ) will put you off centre. Beware

Might get some T-shirts printed up.....?

+1000

Thermal inertia ?

Dead man walking.......

Yes, but largely because ‘most’ generic types of heat source cannot deliver low enough amounts of heat in most situations. Therefore the heat on / heat off cycles aren’t sympathetic to short windows of heat injection. That is amplified by the emitter then mimicking those peaks and troughs. All comes together for a not-very-nice end result. Been to lots of property’s suffering from this, especially retrofit.