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  1. Nickfromwales
    At the absolute bare minimum it should have been sugar soaped and scrubbed clean, then rinsed with clean water. If it was a silk or eggshell then it should have been prepped accordingly eg scratched and or sealed prior to new paint going on. I'd offer to pay for the paint if they remove the u/s coat and reapply it properly for free, that way it's only time and not money for them. It really should be totally free but all depends how good the relationship is.
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    Yup solvent welding 4" soil isn't for the feint-hearted.
  3. Nickfromwales
    Some are almost flush, and others have a 'drip' where the sink overhangs the unit.
  4. Nickfromwales
    £150 is a lot to have a repair, but I'll admit to not seeing one that bad repaired. Middle ground ?
  5. Nickfromwales
    I would simply hound VP until they sort this for you. Ask for the supplier and then find out who ( else ) retails their products.
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    Anything that takes the focus off my bloopers is fair game. . Oh, and there ain't ANY doctor who's got a cure for the crack ( that is the San Andreas fault ) going through your sink.
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    If I think there's a chance of contamination I'll use foam cleaner, but tbh, with a good few revolutions you can actually see the white of the PVC dissolving into the solvent weld. At that stage your never getting a leak.
  8. Nickfromwales
    Get your hose pipe with the spray head on it. Set the spray to shower / mist and shove it down the first bend. Push it in, an inch every minute and that'll spray it top to bottom on each joint. .
  9. Nickfromwales
    If he didn't have "no nails" maybe he'd have hit them with the hammer instead I worked in a new build estate many, many moons ago whilst working for my old ( dick of a ) boss, and the biggest house sold off plan, well in advance. The lady ( reminded me of Hyacinth Buckét ) said she wanted to buy her own kitchen and bathroom suites. A lovely cream and brass ( ???? ) suite for the ensuite arrived and I got to fitting the basin back against the wall. On goes the spirit level, and it was a mil or so out, so without even thinking about it I pick up the claw hammer and turn it to use the butt of the handle ( rubber handle before you judge ) to, ahem, 'tap' the basin into aligmanent. The rubber was missing and the steel shank was exposed....first contact went through both skins of the basin, destroying it in a heartbeat. As I'm juggling the new jigsaw puzzle that used to be a sink, in walks the happy new owner to admire her creamy gold vision of vomit that I had just destroyed. Tbh I put the damn thing out of its misery, wavey shell shapes and all. Yuk.
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    You'll do well to find anything better than Sikaflex EBT, both as a sealant and an adhesive. Tbh, I'd have done the jointing with it too, but sounds like you've already welded it with the solvent. Squeeze the joints to see if the solvent cracks away from the shiny plastic, if it does, it'll need a secondary seal .
  11. Nickfromwales
    Picture please. I NEED to see how hard you hit your sink with a hammer Upon reflection..........??
  12. Nickfromwales
    I was looking at 6 or 8 oil barrels as a thermal store, built into the ( not quite ) 1000mm gap between my shed and next doors garage. Insulated deck and then bury them in a vermiculite / similar coffin. These to be heated off DIY solar thermal and boosted every time I light my chimnea, ( converted to act as a boiler ). More because I can than anything, with a PHE to provide DHW uplift for my combi boiler. 2026 trials sounds about right. ?
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    Original house getting kept and rented .
  14. Nickfromwales
    Do you have to worry about copyright if it's one off and not for demo / sale / reproduction?
  15. Nickfromwales
    If that is your bath, the first bend off the bath trap will need support too. Why a bath trap and then an inline trap ? Oh, and just to scratch the itch....what's in the tee?
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    In all reality not many. However, we do tend to have a more aware, and conscientious crowd here so my assumption is that if someone spent their life savings building their dream home, they'd ensure these things were serviced and maintained accordingly. If they choose not to, then they have themselves to blame when it goes wrong, but we will have shown due diligence in stating that not only is it a requirement, but it's also just plain good sense to keep such system/s looked after accordingly. G3 has always required initial commission and sign-off by a G3 qualified person, and, afaik, has always required susequent annual inspection and testing of the safety devices etc. A lot of cylinder replacements and failures could have been avoided by this annual check. Not to mention the damage to property from such failures. Good luck claiming on your insurances if they can prove you've been negligent.
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    This would only be practical if you envisage using all, or more than the SAPV's can store, with any real frequency. If you estimate you will have excess pv then maybe your a candidate for one x SAPV and 1x SA Stack ? Preheat is deffo a good idea as long as you'll actually need it, so maybe consider a bigger vessel and a PHE as @JSHarris has done, and maybe just one SA Stack for eg. Another consideration is do you need the extra flow rate that 2 x SAPV's will give ( 2 x 15mm outlets combined to a 22mm delivery setup ) or can you manage with only a 15mm supply? Bearing in mind that the Vaillant 938 heat store combi chucks enough water out of its 15mm connection to get you adequately showered ( with 2 showers running simultaneously ) if the cold mains will support it of course.
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    You can. Reasons against doing it are about efficiency . The Sunamp has very little standing / latent heat loss vs say an UVC, so less lost energy = less energy required. An ashp will have a poor CoP when delivering DHW, but if your not a huge DHW user, say retired couple for eg, then you may just be happy to suffer a bit when the ashp is providing DHW. Capital costs is one big point, but deduct the cost of an UVC plus yearly G3 inspections, and its losses, and then the cost of the SA starts to balance out.
  19. Nickfromwales
    I was going to post similar tactics but got worried about how far i was willing to take things
  20. Nickfromwales
    Simple. Just stop lying down on your kitchen floor . Dont thank me, it's what we do
  21. Nickfromwales
    Aye, there's a good crowd on here, and amazingly diverse too. Take a seat .
  22. Nickfromwales
    Hi, and welcome . Replies will soon follow so just keep an eye on the thread. @Temp will be amongst the crowd I expect.
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    Pmsl.
  24. Nickfromwales
    Then drive over them when your hungover ? ?
  25. Nickfromwales
    @TerryE has the 'dual' setup . Details in his blog
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