Nickfromwales

I always fit FR spots below hallways & stairwells and habitable rooms, and always in kitchens / utilities. If your making a hole, make it safe afaic.

Sounds like a plumbing job me old China ? You could recess the brackets but it's not cricket ?

Will rotating the brackets take you from the deepest depth to the narrowest depth ? The brackets are usually an offset L so laying them one way makes the radiator project less . Pipes should take a bit of 'gentle tugging' if the bracket will get you half way there.

My thoughts exactly tbh.

Just thought back and the 6w ones deffo did come with unsheathed input cables. Why the hell didn't they just supply these drivers with those lights?!?

Hmmm. Seems that inconsistency may be a supplier problem too. The ones I got ( 9w ) as follows... Very handy twist to lock connectors to separate lamp from driver. Cord grip kind of provided by the orange cable clamp / cover Cable has writing and a CE mark and an SAA number which I googled briefly and got this. Long and short, the cable is certified and cosha for mains use . I had 3 of these running in a tiny bathroom. ( 1100mm x 3000mm ) and my DAB didn't blink when switching on / off and I'd foil lined the room with PIR sheets. I'd use these again in a heartbeat. Oh, and 6 for £40 delivered. Tres bien x2

Is it actually glorified speaker wire, or is it 230v rated stuff? Any writing on it? For testing, put it in a large Tupperware box and seal it in, but put it outside or do NOT leave unnatended. The unit will usually have the heat from the light adding to the running heat of the driver, so recreate that as best you can with the driver sat over the light. Much as leds are supposed to run very cool, these units do get quite warm. I bought these ones and they're fine. The 9w have a fantastic output. FWIW I just made them off with Wagos straight onto the twin and earth cables . No complaints from me, and just ordered 4 more to go in my boys ( work in progress ) attic conversion, due to the lack of head height. These also have excellent dispersion vs standard recessed GU10 / MR16 downlights, and can be bought IP66 too with no additional recessed depth. Remember that, afaik, you need to supplement these with additional fire proofing measures as they're not fire rates from what I can derive. Anyone know different. ?

Dewalt went through a VERY rough patch, but their current pro range is very nice stuff. The consumer stuff usually has shitty little low power batteries which do ok for diy but you'd end up killing them if you use it for a build etc.

Heed @8ball 's words about not getting excessive amounts of pva solution on the adjacent faces .

Relax chief, the one you have is bombproof ? Do you have the 80ish mm half round clip that holds the soil connector onto the metal frame?

They usually don't. The most a 'conventional' roofer would do is cut a cross in the membrane and poke the flue through it. The breathable membrane only needs to not let any accumulated water / dew etc through to the fabric of the dwelling, so making some form of upstand at the highest point would satisfy that criteria. As long as the outermost junction is rain / watertight then your protected against water coming down the flue wall, and if your sealed at the airtight layer your ok for airtighthess. The breathable membrane is the least of your concern or liability imo.

I've fitted gas burners in commercial buildings, and they've been stainless twin wall and on corrugated metal roofs. Don't see this being too difficult to sort . Fit one of these to the airtight junction, with a ton of CT1 / intumescent mastic, and then another at the roof junction. Simples.

I shit you not, I was in the process of thinking up something appropriate to add to the title, to pay homage to the efforts you've made in documenting your "journéy dù crappér" ( that's French for toilet adventure btw ) and the delights held within. I think it's due for an amendment....... . Id leave the void empty, and consider a chrome plated 'magazine' that relies purely on gravity. Loaded from the bottom, and dispenses from the bottom, with a slight trough at the bottom to hold the next roll from popping out. You'll still need a loo-roll 'holder' though, as I think an all-in-one device may be a bit tricky to make work AND not look chavvy. Why not just fit a bidet, and then do a handstand under the body drier to finish off ? ??.

Only now catching up on your "bog mini-blog" ?? You ever watch "Fast 'n' Loud"....? Change the 'beer assistant' for a 'bog-roll assistant' maybe? ?

Your forgetting that @JSHarris does what I would do, and utilises the buffer as a DHW pre-heat via a PHE fed from a second set of tappings. For a dumb buffer I agree, as long as the ashp can draw back from the UFH water, as a medium to aid defrost, then a buffer with a unified slab circuit may well be ott. NOTE: This would be a very different argument in a regular British BR built house however, so we must remember that these 'disciplines' need to be taken as suitable for this topic alone. Just a nudge for the wider viewing audience.

Iirc, @JSHarris has a wunda manifold which utilises a thermo / hydraulic head that requires no such differential as it's not a 'typical' blending valve. That uses a hydraulic probe which sits in ( again iirc ) the flow rail of the manifold and regulates the flow temp VERY accurately. ( his blog gives specifics ).

Painted hardwood is not a bad option tbph, and, as said, allows one to paint accordingly, rather than be stuck with whatever options are available with the plastic / PVC / metal 'generic' trims. I've seen wooden quadrant used in a half-height tiled bathroom, not wetroom, and it looked / worked very well. I am very much a fan of a pukka polished chrome ( mirror chrome not cheap ass aluminium stuff ) tile trim, but be ready to fork out £25-£50 and upwards per 2.5m length depending on size. Many people will instantly choke on that and say they're not paying those prices, but when your in the finished room looking at them, it's very hard to deny that they look absolutely stunning.

Yup, agreed. Just ( wet ) sponge it back between layers and allow 24hrs between applications for it to shrink back.

Use Toupret once, and no need to redo it .

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I'd recommend Toupret filler ( powder mixed with water ) and hard fill the big cracks. Mix some 50/50 pva / water and saturate the insides directly before the initial fill. Wipe the surface with a damp cloth to remove excess pva solution. . Only use the acrylic 'caulk' to do the internal corners as it can't be sanded or re-finished after it cures.

And no draught .

There is a "one property in 10" rule you could have used there perhaps. I've got away with no vent at all on some jobs where I can clearly demonstrate that 5 houses down and 5 houses up have vents. The difficulties from there are probably exasperated by you being detached. Personally, Dave, I'd get my completion cert and drop the vent out of the house roof and leave the plant vent do the job. BCO's sometimes need to chill out a bit, but they're just covering their arses most of the time which makes them over-cautious.

As long as the pipe is packed snug / all around with some type of fines / shingle then it's pointless tbh. You'll also regret it if you ever come to want to expose / alter it later in life .