Nickfromwales

Your WAY over my head. I go into my merchant and look at the shelf. There's clear, black, white or grey. I grab the one that I need that day. .

I omitted the 'few other things'.

You and I are peas in a pod. My customers jobs are 100% complete, with merits, and my bath panel has been missing 5 tiles on the end for 3 years. My wife has stopped nagging now, is that good or bad. ? I guess you do what brings home the bacon........

Some folk are happy to compromise with a reliable Ford, when the budget doesn't allow for a smart Mercedes.

Keep going. "The greatest of journeys start with the smallest of steps" ( and other such inspirational nonsense ). I despise Amazon, but they're undeniably gargantuan in their presence. Use that for your own advantage.

That's the importance of sitting customers down before fitting things, and stating clearly the pros and cons, so they make the choice not you. Has saved me a thousand arguments.

100mm fixings through a 44mm soleplate will keep you safe and fixed sufficiently well. For added pazzaz you can use a D4 PU glue to bond the timber to the screed. TBH, after the glue goes off you could take the fixings back out. WC pans go down with CT1. Oh, and ffs please stop getting bogged down with what potential future occupants may do with a drill bit. .

Council guys around my neck of the woods do very well given the number of staff that have gone through budget cuts. I am very happy with them accepting photos, and wouldn't want it any other way. It helps me, it helps an already stretched but valuable resource, and keeps momentum up on the projects. Canera, and a tape measure, = satisfactory service. After a coupe of calls to a previous project the local BCO went to speak to the customer, unbeknown to me, and said he had no reason to keep checking my work in person. I guess if the BCO has no faith in what he's seen so far you'll be waiting on him, so aim higher and you'll be fine.

TS's don't typically come with expansion vessels for the primary water system as you normally decide what additional volume there is beyond the TS and then fit a vessel or vessels to suit the entire system volume. The TS's that have a DHW coil always come with a small EV ( aka shock arrestor ) so @Alexphd1 can you confirm that you have one fitted? The Telford TS's usually arrive with the TMV fitted and all Tectite fittings in place with the upper cold feed going in on a tee. In that open end of the tee goes that small EV. Nowt else to go with a TS, that's the beauty of them. 10 bar DHW coil so cold mains straight in, if the mains is sub 5 bar at your property, and oodles of high flow DHW.

The installer should know about that ( hopefully lol ). / The DHW ( tappings ) are on the DHW coil so cold in / hot out are sorted . A pair for boiler A pair for space heating ( all ) Make sure you ask for two stat pockets, one upper and one lower. I'll explain why later down the line when your plumbers on board. Expansion vessels / valves etc will be down to the design your plumber adopts.

Go for 500 as you can run a bigger TS slightly cooler. Also, more volume to store PV down the line.

A fast flowing bath and one shower running simultaneously should be possible, as long as your cold mains flow will support that of course. 20+ kW to the bath and maybe 10kW should be your worst case scenario TBH, so for that reason I wouldn't go less than 35kW for the boiler. Remembering also that space heating may be drawn at the same time too, so in order to match demand ( so no drop in DHW performance, which nobody wants after forking out for a new system ) your better off safe than sorry. An 18kW boiler would just about support the bath filling, or even fail at that if it's a big bath and good flow rates at the taps. A 35kW boiler will modulate down to less than 10kW, even lower with better makes, so you absolutely will not be wasting gas if that's a worry. As for makes, I prefer a Vaillant TBH, but WB have a guarantee, not a warranty, for 10 years. You have to adhere to their installation criteria ( their filter their controls and an accredited WB fitter ) so check out the small print ( speak to them directly prob best ) and see which has the most appeal. WB have got a good reputation, Vaillant similarly so, but for an excellent daily driver I would easily recommend the cheaper but afaic fit and forget Baxi Megaflow. First two are the Mercedes, the Baxi is your VW golf. . Never ever had issues or comebacks with the Baxis, an excellent boiler.

+1

Ah, my teenage years .........

I can forgive those . The fact you used a blowlamp put you in credit.

I've 100% never EVER been asked for one. Ever.

Go and wash your mouth out with that soap and water. Wasn't this something to do with plumbing ?

Well shut my mouth

Agreed, but what does it say in the bag ? If it doesn't say finish / filler then you need a product that can be feathered out to nothing ( if it's on display for eg ).

Thats a good price tbh, and you'll be giving around a grand + filter + fitting for a regular Baxi Duotec. Tres bien.

Load the adjustable bend up with silicone grease. Fairy liquid and water mixed and a paint brush for the soapy water test. Edit : should have read , dismantle and load......

I'm going for all internal and the rear one on the garden-most wall ( below #1 sons room too as he's moaning about wifi being crap in his room ). Go climb a chuffing tree like I used to !!!

For absolute final filling, easifill normally will suffice if your painting ( then rubbing down the paint as a fine filler ) Toupret is the best I've used so far. You can accelerate the drying times with a hairdryer without compromising the filler and it feathers out to nothing ( unlike the joint filler which is coarser by comparison which 'maps' around the edges sometimes.

"I only told you to blow the bloody doors off!" .

Yup. Any insects caught up in your slab will be fossilised by now ?