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  1. Nickfromwales
    It's an unanswerable question because of the quote being made up of mixed disciplines TBH. Ask for a quote for the oddities and the plumbing etc as two separate items and then we can work out what's what. Architects are wonderful folk, but when they put things out to tender it's usually via the straightest route. Not always the best route.
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    You can get all the advice you need here. Draw it out and study it, or Wunda ( for eg ) will design it for you for.........bugger all. Use the money you save to buy beer. A very important component of any build. Dilly Dilly .
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    I think they're just referring to normal soldered joints. If it were different it would say push-fit / press-fit / compression, but the method of soldering copper joints uses what we call "end-feed" fittings ( just regular copper joints to you and I ) so that what I believe they are offering. E.g. a pukka job. £20k for that doesn't sound crazy tbh, but very strange for a plumber to quote the guttering. Lead maybe but again a bit odd. Who is actually going to do that work ? The plumber or a sub-contractor ? If the latter then can't you get quotes direct to you instead of via a 3rd party? Ultra mods beat me to it, not in the quote so labour is a LOT of the quote. Where did you get the £45 figure?
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    @tonyshouse blog will serve you well with the old heavy / wet build approach. If im ever lucky enough to build, there won't be a brick or block in sight. A decorative stone facade maybe, but no block internal layer that for sure.
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    You need a bend and then the branch, or the branch then the bend. Don't use the branch to make a 90o turn in the run as it's a stalling point and a big no-no.
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    Pressure testing is a no brainier. ?
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    Could have yes, what with the short days and spare time we had
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    Exactly. Cut out the middle man .
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    Had a £13k showroom kitchen for less than £6k. That beat the customers B&Q quote of £9.6k for a bag of shit kitchen with stinking Chinese appliances.
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    Magnet or magnet trade ?
  11. Nickfromwales
    Source your granite independently too, there are some great independent suppliers around.
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    Howdens is bread and butter. Can be made to look nice but there is better about for not bucket loads of cash. Magnet trade will sell you anything that's in the retail showroom at a whopping saving off list ( even though their list price is of course for folk with more money than sense ).
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    Plus 1 on the second support on the mid purlin. Whats is the floor construction that these are all sat on?
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    Ok I'll try and summarise... SA ( for PV storage ? Sound like you've got a decent chunk of that, so that's down to sizing the SA units accordingly. Gas: Cooking. Boiler. You can squeeze the SA's nearly dry, and then lean on the gas boiler as a last resort. It shouldn't come on at all during the 'sunny months' so sized properly this should be a nice solution. With a combi you may want a thermostatic hydronic diverter which, at a certain temp, divert DHW from the SA away from the combi and send it directly to the outlets.
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    Select the neighbour you dislike the most and buy yourself a long-handled shovel. Tally-hup......"Incoming!" Did that with one neighbours dog in a previous abode, back doors opposite each other. Their dog would shit on our back door step. Wife lost her rag and piled up a load by their back door. Then made me put a fence up. Oh, and he was a night-club doorman who finished work at 3am, and would insist doing a 3-point turn to have his car parked the right way for the morning. Wouldn't have been a real problem except his Rover 220 turbo coupe had no exhaust, and for good measure he and his missus would then argue loudly for an hour or two to add the cherry to the cake. Throw your shit at the annoying neighbours. They'll soon smell the coffee......or maybe they won't
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    If you get formers which don't need to be fully supported then the ones over timber will be an hour or two a piece to install dry. Give a fitter time to unpack, eat and pack away, but expect two of the timber ones done in a day with the wastes connected and tested and the proprietary sealing of the trays done too. A good bit of reading here... and here.... and ?loads here. Ill add a bit more on the UTH ( under tile heating ) later ?
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    2 over timber and 2 on concrete? 3 and 1? Drainage in place ?
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    Do you have a copy of the MI's that you can upload here for the Burley?
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    Flush plate or....?
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    First question is are you going SA and what size / qty? That will determine what size UVC you need. I only got the info off @AndyT literally today about increased capacity of the uniq units when fed by pre-heated water. Makes a huge difference. All the cards need to be on the table for a conclusion, so for every component you consider / add / discount changes all of the peripheral decisions in the same heartbeat. eg add sunamps = reduce UVC size remove boiler = increase SA size Each has a direct effect on the other. What is it you we're thinking of doing with the sunamps? We kinda did something along these lines once lol. Just mention Buildhub and you'll be sorted as Trevor at Cylinders2go has agreed to keep us sweet.
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    News to me !!
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    You already seen the reflection ?
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    Beware the full polished chrome as blokes may get to see an interesting reflection when standing up for a pee, especially with the convex shaped plates. Not the end of the world but there are satin or chrome-on-white versions too. More of a problem with the 1120's and not so problematic with 820's.
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    And then to prance around in them in a nice warm house. Neighbours are going to love that! Was this your debut video?
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    Voice of an angel
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