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  1. Nickfromwales
    Dragons Den for you, cockles . ???
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    If that had a slightly more forgiving handle it would be great. Maybe you could retrofit an old sports bag shoulder strap ? I use totes with tubular handles and rubber grab grips. Two of them so they're not too congested. Theyre both full to the brim with various crap btw
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    Do you know anything about the disappearance of the original vicar Jeremy?
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    PVA it and give it a 3-4mm coat of latex, then paint the latex ? It'll be like a snooker table then. Second year with no man shed so I know what you mean ?
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    Leak sealer should be the absolute last option IMO. Relocating the EV is quite straightforward, I'll add details in a bit ?
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    That water on the floor was probably the PRV connection onto the boiler having not been tightened up properly so basically the pipework leaks when the boiler discharges, from the actual union on the boiler where the copper PRV tail connects via a brass nut. If you have a basin wrench / similar, see if you can check it for tightness. It's got a rubber washer in it so it doesn't need to be super tight, but most put it on hand tight and just forget about it as it never gets tested when filling and commissioning.
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    Oh, if your feeling fancy, you could mount the unwanted filing loop and pressure gauge in the office / other as a remote means of checking the system pressure and topping the boiler up. Maybe preferential to going into the dungeon to do it?
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    You can tee the EV in just about anywhere tbh. Ideally it should be local to the boiler, and if it were me, I'd do that just to have a plumbing-free attic. At the moment you have a cold feed for the secondary filling loop. Not needed. You have a secondary PRV. Not needed. You have a secondary D1 discharge pipe from the PRV. Not needed. Youd have central heating water up there heating the EV and wasting gas. Not ideal. Strip the the ev back to its input connection, bin the rest of it, cap any unwanted / redundant pipework accordingly, and mount the secondary EV at the boiler. Match the two pre-charge pressures at 1 bar and end of problem. The EV in the attic looks a terrible install to me, so is just a liability waiting to go wrong. Far better to have all the boiler related equipment in one location IMO. Do the cold and heating pipework that go up to the attic and terminate there, or do they traverse the attic and come back down to service another rad / etc after picking up the EV ?
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    Well, if they're driving landys over it then winner winner. A sacrificial rubber mat where your putting the stands down or laying anything heavy / metal would still offer some longevity IMO so that's my 2 cents .
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    The only thing that marked my travertine, in the bathroom, was my daughter throwing up on it . It doesn't like acidic 'solutions' that's for sure ! A good bit of elbow grease and some clever cleaning of the floor with various cleaners and it's now barely visible, but was a pita compared to the porcelain outside the bathrooms which just wipes clean in milliseconds, regardless of who's done what to them. Is your slab screed, or concrete with Re-bar?
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    Maybe paint the whole floor and get a large rubber work mat cut, say 2.5m x 4.0 m, so your working on that and not directly on the floor? Also be a bit warmer in the winter. Oil and grease spills can be wiped up off that with ease, but the 2-pack floor paint is pretty damn good stuff for general wear and tear. Is that a 2-part, or just open and apply?
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    Yup, that's what I found. I also like the fact that it seems to harbour less surface crud, so the joints need less cleaning / refluxing during soldering. Im a convert now, but remember to have a clean pipe and a clean fitting so soldering goes well. What flux are you using ?
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    Ok. Looking at the pics it's quite easy to see that this guy can get both his Landy and his van on HIS drive. Also, as a medium, he can park his van across his drive, face on, and if he needs to get the Landy out he just moves his van. At the very last resort, the space can be moved 3' to the left and placed at a slight angle, sympathetic to the acces to your plot. I think it's simply a case of meeting with this guy and saying it exactly as it is, as he's not exactly going to be massively put out by moving over a bit, or parking on his own drive. Go knock his door, and just spit it out. . You'll feel much better when you know where you stand. .
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    Slightly relevant to the thread
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    Turn it vertically through 90o and bingo..... your new bog roll holder ??
  16. Nickfromwales
    You can borrow my Pajero then and shunt his van into the next street. Just a fall-back option. .
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    Patch the render and paint the 90 white first ? .
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    Lol http://www.ebuild.co.uk/topic/16955-desk-top-pc-died-what-next/page__fromsearch__1# Guess who the author was
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    Have you ever heard the phrase "suicide mission"? 1) I doubt he'll be appreciative of you saying his house is scruffy and you'd like to make it more pleasing to the eye. If you knocked my door and told me that I'd tell you to Foxtrot Oscar. 2) Don't make such a daft gesture, ask @JSHarris where goodwill to your new neighbours gets you. Bollocks to that. Black and white is what this is. If he'd read the planning he'd already know what's happening. If he didn't then that shows his level of giveafuck is around 2%. If it were me, I'd pay for the highways contractors to come and burn the road markings off and ask them to do as @ProDave suggested, with his new space painted accordingly. As you say, man up a little, tell him what is happening and await his next response. Until then this is all a bit 'hypothetical'. Let's get a response, then deal with the outcome. You have planning so the worst that can happen is you don't speak to him as you drive into your house. Big deal. You can please some of the people all of the time, so to be -1 wont exactly cause you any panic. After a while he'll come around any way, ( he'll have to! ).
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    Search here as I've had advice, lots of it, for breathing new life into my old machine for very little outlay. . I plan to do the upgrades quote soon after @Onoff finishes his bathroom. ?
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    Got to love the simplicity, but I think I'd have at least put a tap next to it with a hose. . One of my 'I'll do it one day' ideas is to put a huge TS ( 2000 litres or more ) in my shed, entombed in poly beads or similar, and use my chimnea to heat it. When that thing is going flat out I can barely stand 8' away from it. Can't help wondering how much DHW ( cold mains uplift via a instantaneous coil in the TS ) I could generate by my evening BBQ sessions. ? Was thinking of a home made ST rig ( old rads painted black ) on the flat roof of the shed as a means to keep it from going 'cold' for background input. Theoretically, after two 'burns' per week, it should always be above the flow temp of ST so weighing up the options. ?? DIY PV becomes more sensible too then as I'll always have somewhere to dump excess. Hopefully I'll live long enough to find out, maybe another 200 years would suffice ?
  22. Nickfromwales
    Exactly what I would do. Light it once, heat a giant tank, and enjoy. Same principal as charging a battery. If you've got a big charger, charge a much bigger battery. .
  23. Nickfromwales
    And on further inspection, the gauge shows zero, which reinforces my last. Therefore :- Result 3) previous plumber is a penis.
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    Ok, I think I've got it. Sounds like they've put the additional EV in accordingly, but have inadvertently connected it to one of the severed pipes, rather than connect it to a live central heating pipe. Result 1) water pisses out where it shouldn't. Result 2) you aren't benefitting from the secondary EV volume, so your boiler is giving the pressure issues that started this thread. A non-retired plumber needs to attend and make said connection accordingly, at which point your books and towels will be dry and your CH will be reliable and function as it normally should .
  25. Nickfromwales
    They're basically the same type of valve as I've got, but with the facia plate removed. Often referred to as 'fully concealed'.
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