Nickfromwales

Nope. She's deffo a one trick pony. . Go for the cross line Dewalt or Bosch. Both are good units. My mates dewalt one has taken an absolute pounding over the last 4 years or so he's owned it and it's still going strong.

I think that little green Bosch may have a vertical too?

Ed, it's not sounding good mate

This one may be trouble. Ill put a man on him Welcome Nick ( if that IS your real name ). Best you don't be good at plumbing or the gloves are coming off.

In fairness, it's a two way street here. For every golden nugget I've given away I must have had at least two or three in return. It's quite difficult to get free, impartial and, most importantly, honest advice, but here it's plentiful. Regretfully, I'm unable to help with your sausage guilt. Maybe eat less bacon? ?

Sorry Ian, this could be one of those tangents we promised not to take threads off on..........? My bad.

That seems to retail around the £120-130 mark. Tbh, for a bit more money I'd consider this one instead. I borrowed one of these off my mate when my Bosch was out of action and I thought, for the money, it was a very robust and versatile unit. The green Bosch stuff is the DIY range, with the blue being the proffesional range. Also, you may want to check out the Bosch equivalent to the Dewalt which is also around the £150 mark. If I had to choose, it would be the Bosch. I do a lot of tiling and stud work, so I went with this beauty Only downfall is it LOVES the batteries. A water level is good for when you don't have line of sight, but it doesn't have the cool red laser lines which make you think your in an illegal rave. ? Spend the other couple of tenners and go for a professional item.

Bugger......confession time. This seemed like the cowards way out ( so naturally, I went with it ) Coupled with this In my defence, ahem, the templates went straight in the bin as the rise and going was not on there for my particular requirements. Also, for anyone considering one of these DIY / flat pack staircases, they're the dogs bollocks. Stairs for idiots made simple. A word of warning, with the winder box if you've not got a perfectly flat floor to come off you need to adjust all the stated dimensions accordingly. Also, the underside of each winder was marked for 650 700 750 800mm etc and I wanted 700mm so duly cut along the lines. Ended up with chuffing 625mm width !!! , work that out. Fwiw, the instructions were less than great so I binned those too. Do I still get a Blue Peter Staircase badge?

After finishing my boys attic 'conversion' I now need to fine tune which detectors go where. I need 1) for attic room 2) for back bedroom ( above kitchen ) 3) landing 4) hall ( current battery one goes off when I cook steaks ) 5) kitchen ( heat obviously ) My main concern upstairs is technology catching fire. PC / tv / consoles etc on standby through the day ( 4 kids so don't even say to put everything off during the day, never going to be a realistic option ), with same downstairs but more about appliances there. Location 4 is the tricky one, but advice as to which is better, where, and hopefully why would be gratefully received. Thanks all. Edit to add : there are two bedrooms under the attic room, should I go crazy and cover those rooms too, or will the landing detector suffice?

Interesting or worrying?

There's so many different disciplines in a build. To be a master of them all would take a lifetime of learning. Success, certainly in my game, comes from adventure, failure and then success. Hopefully not too much failure to recover, but you can see why others get it so very wrong. The stairs for my boys attic room. A right hand winder going to a straight flight but steeper than the roof so two 'double depth' step-stroke-landings on the last few treads so as to not get any 'swede bashing' on the ceiling. Measured and marked it all out, didn't work ( no saw out yet btw ). Marked it again and again and then said bollocks to it its going in. Only cock up I made was the stringer should have finished flush with the attic floor but it was to joist level, oops, so 18mm short. Not the end of the world, bit of pine strip scarfed in here and there and bingo. Fact was, this was my first staircase and I'm happy I stuck to not ringing my Chippy mate to dig me out of it. Now i 'understand' stairs, "tread" / "riser" / "rise" and "going" / "squeaker blocks" / "toe" and the such I am now confident to get more involved when such jobs arise. Newels will be the next nemesis but one 'step' at a time. Definitely a good feeling when the not-knowing turns into clarity and you say to some inanimate object....."Bingo......have that you bastard". ?

"Praise the lord!"

That's annoyingly easy and un-complicated

Pressurising the building instead of creating a vacuum would be better for the initial test. Using artificial smoke ( flue test smoke bomb or smoke matches / smoke detector tester aerosol ) to find leaks would be much better IMO. You pressurise the building and just go around watching where the smoke exists the various junctions / points of the house and mark them off accordingly to repair later. When your choking to death on the thick putrid smoke your good to go ?

This is on the intake, so theoretically you'll never get any problems from any nasties / spores etc as they would be getting pulled up and out ?

????? @jack how much was your unit if you don't mind, please?

Crikey. 2.4 m mounting height ! @jack, how is yours positioned for cleaning / maintenance / replacement etc? 67% ( manufacturers quoted efficiency ) isn't to be sniffed at TBH. Different models suitable for first floor showers ( 2m long vertical tubular type ) with other models specified for ground floor ( big shoe box basically ). Interesting that it says NOT to insulate the unit itself ( pipework to be insulated ), unit to be kept below 25oC ambient, and ( preheated side ) pipework to be kept 3m or shorter ( to achieve max efficiency ). Mounting and locating this unit should really be included as a design consideration, before your builder gets the tools out .

You read my mind ?

It is......and don't call me Shirley

Seems a lot of hassle for little reward to me, especially the tank option, not to mention cleaning and maintenance headaches. DIY sounds like it would give you a sense of achievement for less bucks, but not much more. Iirc, @jack has these fitted. Any performance statistics anyone?

That has to be, singularly, the best post so far in 2017 You sir, are a legend. PMSL.

PMSL You don't think ?!? FFS........ Ill buy you the bastard thing if you hurry up and get some tiles on. ? ??????

I'm already in contact. .

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Oops already hoovered them up .