Nickfromwales

Which one ? Lol.

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Buy him some Lego NOW!!!! My favourite thing was going to my ( wealthy ) auntie and uncles every Boxing Day and opening my present. Always the biggest Lego technic set that ToysRus had to offer . I wish I was a kid again ?

I bet the young man is looking at the digger with baited breath.

Mowing the lawn has never been so much fun !

A couple of off-roaders . Look like fun. .

Much less, when you factor in lost time and the distraction. . Unless you KNOW you can win, and you can get your 'personal fees' back too. If this was £12k it would be very different.

+1. Expend the time and effort moving forward. .

Second shot shows the timber clad steel mid-section. Mentioned in the previous entry isn't it ?

Was it crud in the water that actually ruined Xmas . Any contamination finds its way to the float valve in these AAV's and blocks the pins resulting in water coming out of the cap at the top. +1

Ok folks. Using the aforementioned Marcrist 6&8mm double ended bit. Results are in.....it's fantastic . Havent ever had a porcelain tile as hard as the ones on this job, and my regular diamond tipped 6mm bit, used wet to do a few wet holes already with near zero wear, didn't even scratch these tiles £41.99 later ( last minute dash to screwfix ) and it's going through with reasonable ease. 6 holes in and even though it's looking a little rounded now, it's still going. Will update shortly after seeing if it gets the 10 remaining holes done too. Im a convert people. These bits are worth every penny ( that the customer will be paying as it's a consumable).

Vaulted ceiling maybe?

Same in mine, they're shredded polystyrene ceiling tiles. Forget the mess.....fire hazard and all the cables we're entombed in the stuff . Not good removing that when I did the attic out for my boy.

The hydro set up makes me think you should go bigger. Do you have any info regarding expected yield, eg pattern of delivery for the hydro ? Can we assume the hydro will give 3kw idle and 5kw peak, with 3kw a fairly constant ( over 24hrs ) figure? If the 3kw is a constant, then I'd say much bigger. I'd want to harvest as much of the hydro generated energy, convert it into heat energy in the TS, and have it stored ready to be used to off-set the shunt heating load, eg when the house is asked to attain the target / comfort temp, plus DHW. To do that in a TS of say 300L capacity would be IMO a stretch. I'd go for ~800L, more if the space is there, but that is wholly dependant on the hydro figure being accurate. You stated 2kw in the OP but now your saying 3-5kw, so have you had some feedback from the unit installers ? Also, can they provide an excess generation controller ( hydro equivalent of the Immersun ) that will pump excess into the second immersion ? If not, make sure one of the immersions is a 6kw, and the second at least a 3kw so you have 9-12kw of electrical boost ( also a backup if the oil ever runs out and you need to temporarily switch to electricity to keep things running ). Id deffo want to design this so the hydro is providing the maximum yield, and that is best achieved by using it to trickle charge a large heat battery, aka TS.

Nah, just fill the void with acoustic wool like you get in speakers. .

4 off cuts of FR PB expensive ?

Dewalt DWS 780 XPS shadow line. She's the beast. Hire one, it's too much to buy and own ( unless your doing all the internal carpentry and joinery ? ). ?

You clearly stayed on to take your GCSE's

Should these be going into fire rated 'pockets' to maintain fire barrier integrity, if above space is hallway / habitable ?

Try saying that in 80 characters or less . Agreed. If they apologised and refunded you should leave pos feedback. I just bought a tile cutter 'used once' and it arrived with no blade guard. When I asked where it was he replied "did you see one in the pics?" Did he EVER! After a couple of exchanges where i enlightened him as to how listings are made by genuine sellers ( his pics were taken when the machine was first taken out of the box not after the once that it was used so the blade guard i assumed was still in the box ) he stumped up. He admitted in his first reply that he knew it was missing so I had him banged to rights. He stumped up and we both left pos feedback. "Live today, fight tomorrow"

I'll do the abuse section. When the F**** do I start ?!? .

Yup. When you get to the standing-and-staring-at-it stage, it's time for a kick up the arse. Chomping a pie whilst deciding MAY help . Better than granola. ?

We'll just hijack @ProDave's one. Imagine his families face as they wake in Lancashire . "Everybody out !"

Just about get the 5 pairs ( days written on the labels ) of @PeterW's favourite cream and brown Y-fronts ? ? in there.

Ian, it takes a big set of brass balls to undertake what you have so far, even if that's been quietly reinforced by the presence of a 'builder'......That has obviously boosted your basic knowledge and confidence in what you can, and more importantly cannot do, so as you already know in the back of your head, this is down to how you feel you will cope. Simple. To break it down into the obvious, it's apparent you now feel that you can overtake the builder by replacing him with yourself + necessary others ( sub-contractors as and when ) and are, from what I'm reading, being held back by said lack of competency / and commitment from Bob ( the builder ). If this thread is what you need to fortify your 99% already made up mind, then do just do it. Today. Sleeping on it is another 24 hrs where your pandering to someone else whilst they decide how and when your build will progress, whilst your sat around twiddling your thumbs ( ), keen to crack the fack on. The "Dear Bob" chat needs to be calm, quiet and stone cold sobering, so it soaks in quickly and stealthily. Best to prepare some of the major hiccups and issues as bullet-points before hand, as the mind gets disorganised when ( if ) placed under duress, and you need to keep the upper hand to carry it through. If you were clueless I'd probably advise otherwise, but with advice from here there's not much which cannot be solved, methodically, it's just down to how you will achieve it physically. All you need is one decent all-rounder as your +1 and you'll be fine. Contact Bob ( revisited ) on gumtree and sound him out ASAP. It's only a phone call. If you were planning on PM everything after weathertight anyway, there's not much left in between, so my 2-cents.... GO FOR IT. ?