Nickfromwales

Sit tight and wait for the replies to come in. There's usually is a way out and a few heads are better than one

Apologies, as im only seeing this now....this place is moving in the fast lane at the moment The pump looks fine, brass body / brass impellers, ticks all the boxes afaic. Have you considered a slimline UVC? No need for pumps then maybe, and you can do away with the huge CWS you'll need if going to a 2 or 3 bar twin pump. 50 gallon minimum for that. Question for 2 or 3 bar is dependant on whether you want to run two showers simultaneously. Then you need to look how much hot water that will use as two showers will suck a regular hot tank dry in no time at all. Last one I did all pumped was a nightmare, and we ended up fitting a much bigger hot cylinder and adding a 50 gal CWS tank to the existing 25 gal tank so they could fill their large bath without a drought.

Pity the sloped bit is the other end Have you chosen taps yet? Bath overflow filler is uber sleek

Ive never seen two guys so happy to be holding each others wood

Is the hot water from a copper cylinder with tanks in the attic aka a vented / open-pipe gravity system? If so you will need a mixer tap that separates the hot and cold water all the way to the open mouth of the spout. If the hot and cold are able to mix in the tap body then you may get issues with poor performance of the hot flow as it'll be fighting against cold which will be at mains pressure. A non-return valve on the hot may cause the issues its meant to cure as it'll also act as a restrictor. In a bungalow for eg you would already be minus around 0.8 - 1 bar of head ( pressure ) so you'll need to ask questions prior to purchase

Not that I wish to "rub it in", but a verbal assurance from one company or individual about a 3rd party's involvement or commitment is not concrete advice on which to base anything, im afraid. I'd suggest that we focus on the architect here rather than MBC, as MBC clearly have done nothing wrong whatsoever in this instance and the architect has completely misled you, unless they can show you any written correspondence directly from MBC to the contrary of course? A rant is fine, does a bit of good even, but it needs to be focussed on the parties or individuals that have provoked it. In this case the architect.

Still of little comfort.........

Interesting

If your buying a mixer tap it'll likely be supplied with 10mm x 1/2" flexis. Hold off buying anything until you get the tap. Do you have a combi / UVC?

Only any good if its just your feet thats getting fatter

Plumbing not too shabby lol. Question : Why have you got a P-shaped bath in a room with a separate shower?

@kaba Why not something like this ? A skilled fitter would be able to chamfer the 1850 down to meet your sloping ceiling. Way better than a hinged door in a tight space, and you can leave the doors open to dry out after showering without compromising the room / circulation space. PS nice tiles

Automated deadbolts sound appropriate and if you have aux relays in the existing box you may be able to use a second button on the fob to control them. What is it you wish to protect ? Car or garage contents. ? Typical thieves will use a bottle / trolley jack with forks to lift the middle of the door so they'll do shitloads of damage first anyway, before realising there are secondary measures in place. Lose lose situation. Do you have a side door ? If so they'll hit THAT first anyhoo.

@Barney12 This one any good ? Also without mirror chrome you don't get a view of yourself peeing. ??

The good news is they get serviced from the front. The control knob cover rings come off and then the square faceplate slides over them and off. Two inlet filters usually and then the thermostatic cartridge screw out for cleaning / replacement. Check if the one you buy has non return valves built in, for prevention of back flow ( but more importantly CROSS flow aka mixing ) as you'll need to fit en external inline one locally otherwise.

They're so cheap it's a no brainer to buy two so you have one ready for spares. I have an even cheaper one, and it's in its 3rd year of service with just a little degradation of the thermostatic control. Still works fine but the hot / cold dial has to be turned slightly further to get the same temp as it did when I first fitted it. May just need cleaning / servicing. If your burying this into the tiled wall then buying a spare is sensible IMO.

Ask them to put "one in the bank". You square them up when your next flush with dollars and they've helped you out.

How DARE you Its a specialist trade you know

Legends

I only bond ( with foam ) where the board edges join as you cant get screws both directions on every joint when overboarding. Use a plasterboard lift or home made stilt to keep the board up tight whilst the foam goes off or it'll bow as the foam pushes outwards.

Well try and think of someone else won't you please ? While your enjoying all that insulation some of us will be in terrible pain trying to lift heavy glasses full of ale with their baddy arm .

You need to find out what adhesive the layers will use to see if they'll react to each other. I don't see you needing to do much more than mastic all around the wall / ply junctions to seal up the gaps. Sealing the vinyl to the wall afterwards is a no brainer. Will there be skirtings sitting on this junction or tiles / other ?

Yuk No wood where it needs to be on show, get it overboarded. By the time you've typed this you'd be on your second or third board and closer to the pub ?

Yup. You need to ventilate a service void to have a gas pipe in it. What I would do is run a 25mm PVC conduit from the attic down to the top of the skirting say 10mm past it and plug the top with foam. Leave that there as a duct and you can either drop a 15mm pipe ( overkill ) or what I'd do, drop a 10mm pipe down if when required as that'll be ample. This assumes a <7kw appliance which won't need a vent iirc and also therefore won't need a big gas supply. I doubt a GSR'd fitter would want to connect to a buried pipe that's been DIY'd unless you've got photos, lots of, and he / she doesn't deem it at risk. Just fit the straight run of conduit and get on with your life . Remember that gas regs and legislation change. The duct is a future proof solution imo.