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  1. Nickfromwales
    Pic from under the boiler plz. Do you intend to just run rads and UFH the same time always ? You'd be better off doing that TBH with a combi and no buffer. .
  2. Nickfromwales
    Yup.
  3. Nickfromwales
    Don't you have 2 x 2-port valves already installed and a dedicated pair of flow and return pipes run to the manifold location ?
  4. Nickfromwales
    A one day job MAX.
  5. Nickfromwales
    Do you have the manifold there?
  6. Nickfromwales
    I think @Declan52 has used one that powers back up in the same state
  7. Nickfromwales
    What needs doing to the ufh to get it working?
  8. Nickfromwales
    -Service temperatures: 40°C - 95°C. -Maximum working pressure: 10bar -Five-layer composite pipe. -Combines the benefits of both metal and plastic pipes. Sounds like you've just removed the protective outer layer. You'll need to check with the substance you use too, that its not going to dissolve the outer material of the pipe. @JSHarris territory there
  9. Nickfromwales
    Pointless testing with warm water tbh. 6 bar is 4 times the working pressure of the UFH system so if that holds then anything the system can chuck at it will hold too. Just make 100% sure the system contains a 3 bar PRV on the primary side and away to go. I honestly think you'll do more harm than good cutting into that pipe. That magic gel doesn't specifically state that it sets solid, which is what you'll need for the pipe repair. The manufacturer may be able to tell you, but won't endorse its use for this scenario. Me personally, if it were my house, id just backfill with a pissy mix of strong concrete or even a self levelling compound first ( up to a depth of 50mm ) and then screed over the repair. Your only looking to stop any expansion of the pipe tbh, so a few tight turns of PVC tape, 3-4 max to ensure the aluminium NEVER gets into contact with the concrete / other and you'll be fine. Oh, and the guy who did your concreting is a penis.
  10. Nickfromwales
    Should have added that this pipe will tolerate crazy pressure, and yours will only ever see <3 bar max, 1.5 bar nominal which is nowt.
  11. Nickfromwales
    I wouldn't cut that pipe tbh. Is it Pex-al-pex? The grey shadow you can see is probably the aluminium layer, so the only bit compromised is the outer sheath. Id buy an external cable resin kit and pour a mould around the affected area to fortify where the sheath is damaged. You could even just back fill that whole trench with the resin, which imo would be infinitely better than cutting and jointing the pipe. FYI ive cut, joint and buried ufh couplers and elbows before with zero fail rate. The recommendation to have the joint exposed is just that, a recommendation. . In your instance I would, if your going to cut out the damaged section, just cut enough to be on clean pipe, and use two 90o bends with a straight bit of pipe between them.
  12. Nickfromwales
    Ok. You know what your doing now ???
  13. Nickfromwales
    Number of times your current soil pipe has needed digging up and / or maintaining ? . Solid floor for me if it were my own build. Why not 250mm of insulation and 100mm of reinforced concrete over the top of that with the UFH pipes in in? A floating floor needs cross ventilation so is inherently flawed IMO. Go 25mm sacrificial EPS over sand blinding, then DPC, then 125mm EPS at the bottom and then 100mm or 120mm PIR atop. Excellenté!
  14. Nickfromwales
    Damn he's good lol. The only thing I'd add is that there may be a conflict of supplies in the internal switch if that's got the existing lighting feed in it, and then you take the outside live into it too. @Onoff / @ProDave, any issue with the two feeds sharing the same switch plate ? If not, then if the existing internal switch is a single or double, it can be bumped up to a double or triple ( 2 gang or 3 gang ) rather than make a new cut out for an additional switch to add the extra gang. Getting from the blue square to the green square can be done by fishing the cable down the cavity. Push some slack back on the cable, into the cavity, to get a drip loop.
  15. Nickfromwales
    Yes, and kinda. Youll need one cable that powers the lights, live neutral and earth. From any junction you then create your switching circuit. Live to the 2-way switch Common terminal and L1 ofcthe switch goes to the lights as the "switched live" feed. From that switch you then need a 3-core and earth as a 'strapper' between that switch and the second switch. I'll add the configuration later but that's what you need to know for cables .
  16. Nickfromwales
    Should have circular knock outs on side / top / bottom etc specifically for a 20mm Swa gland .
  17. Nickfromwales
    Beware going to a light switch to get a feed as normally they won't have a neutral in there . Open it up and double check first. Didn't you say you have an external power supply ? If so use that for the feed, and if you want to be flash, do as @Onoff suggested and run a 3-core and earth ( 4-core 1.5mm2 SWA ) to the nearest internal light switch. Then you can switch it on / off from inside or out. Give the cable tobthe bricky and explain where you need it to / from? If he's half intelligent of course .
  18. Nickfromwales
    I would normally say yes, but the reinforcement of the steel mesh says "chill, Winston", that is going NOWHERE fast. . Its going to be a Carlsberg bathroom mate. .
  19. Nickfromwales
    Do it, Dave .
  20. Nickfromwales
    One word for that. "Bin".
  21. Nickfromwales
    Bought a new screen for my boys iPhone. 6 days later I enquire "what's that bright green rectangular thing banging around in the washing machine?" Yup.
  22. Nickfromwales
    Bugger. You beat me to it. .
  23. Nickfromwales
    Search : glazing reflective solar ?
  24. Nickfromwales
    First question, have you read ( Jeremy's for one ) info re solar reflective coatings for the problematic glazed sections?
  25. Nickfromwales
    Mine are both hitachi. Just felt lighter to me. Cheaper too.
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