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Floor mounted baths and other plumbing snafus
Nickfromwales replied to Bitpipe's topic in Bathrooms, Ensuites & Wetrooms
As per the brief convo', cutting the floor to get the bath trap in is commonplace. Even more so with today's extra deep baths, but also with the practicalities / restriction of the entry height ( top of bath from floor ) where being higher than normal is not desirable. Fwiw, trying to pre-empty where the bath trap will finally end up, and allow for that to be tiled to, at the correct location, is just not practical. The bath trap issue isn't a failing, it's just how 'it is' so don't beat yourself up too much, plus your not welsh -
Any one used Marmox boards?
Nickfromwales replied to Leaway's topic in Bathrooms, Ensuites & Wetrooms
Plasterboard, and tank it. Cheap, simple, and bombproof. -
Hello and welcome back ??
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At Loggerheads With UFH Supplier Over Design Layout
Nickfromwales replied to slidersx200's topic in Underfloor Heating
Ok, I see. I'll await his response and see what, if any, influence I've had -
At Loggerheads With UFH Supplier Over Design Layout
Nickfromwales replied to slidersx200's topic in Underfloor Heating
@slidersx200 Micheal, I've just seen that plan and agree. I've just spoken to Byron at Boulder and asked him to personally review it urgently / at his next earliest convenience. He said he's not familiar with it off hand and asked that I email him the project details, which I did at 15:54 today. Ill come back to you ASAP and see if we can get something sorted. ? -
Lol. You're so unfair !
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How are you managing without cross-members or gussets on the main support legs? They're very long, doesn't the whole thing move at all when kids are blasting around?
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hut, house, it's all the same.
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Not tiling it should make a huge difference underfoot . Good choice.
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You'll have to give us a clue dave
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Hello..your help will be needed.
Nickfromwales replied to mvincentd's topic in Party Wall & Property Legal Issues
Hi and welcome. It seems befriending a local farmer is the way to get a lot of muck shifted for not a huge amount of money One cleared the side of mine for less than the ( empty ) skips would have cost. Best to buy a flat cap and some wellies now and start looking for trails of cow poo -
Where does the hut get it's power supply? Umbilical from yours or fresh supply ( on the same phase ? ).
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Can't help thinking that for 40 m or so, can't you get a cable there? Cat6 is cheap as chips, so you could bury 2 runs in cheap PVC conduit and enjoy hard wired performance. Maybe part buried / part arial run with catenary wire?
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I believe you'd be better off asking them directly tbh, so as to be sure not to invalidate their warranty FYI, if you @ ( hashtag ) a member they get a notification. Just type @ and the list of members can be sifted through by typing the first letters of their username. Thus JSH would appear as @JSHarris He'll then get the prompt to respond.
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House fire - how to control mvhr
Nickfromwales replied to warby's topic in Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Recovery (MVHR)
I'd assume it would be by interrupting the mains power supply, via a contactor. Maybe some units have a set of zero volt contacts for external shutdown / control. Would be quite simple to do tbh. -
House fire - how to control mvhr
Nickfromwales replied to warby's topic in Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Recovery (MVHR)
If gasses are being produced in those quantities, it'll be from combustion created by a fully involved fire. Smoke will have been produced far, far sooner than this combustion will have occurred and will have subsequently been detected by the installed, linked, detection measures. By that stage there should be no real reason why you wouldn't be (1) alerted to the smoke generation, (2) up and exiting the property, and (3) removed from a position where such created gasses are a risk to life. IMO the focus here is on the wrong thing, hence why I'm splitting hairs. If there is a remit to tackle that situation, the talk should be of fire suppression and emergency / terminal escape measures. Its one of the reasons that 3+ storey domestic dwellings send a shiver down my spine. -
With the steel supported on chairs, many choose to zip tie the Ufh pipes to the steel as a ready made 'clip rail'. I'd favour having the pipes clipped to the steel, and thus fully encapsulated in concrete.
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Iirc, the plug in ones use the earth to transmit / receive. Voodoo to me tbh.
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Netgear stuff is good quality and reliable. You may want an outdoor unit that can go on the outside wall, or one with an arial port so the antennae can go on the high point of the outside wall. @JSHarris may be able to offer some wisdom.
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Hello and 'welcome back'. ?
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House fire - how to control mvhr
Nickfromwales replied to warby's topic in Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Recovery (MVHR)
Whilst I clearly hear your concerns and unpleasant previous experiences, it's simply not comparable to the safety you'd be afforded in a new 'regs-compliant' home. Kitchens will have heat detectors, and as the question relates largely to properties with mvhr, I doubt there will be issues from things as catastrophically bad in a fire as polystyrene tiles. Burnt toast in the toaster or a well done steak will set off my smoke detector by the front door, some 12m's away, let alone flames or a fire. -
Can you give details of which make / type of film you went with please?
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Yup, one of the major benefits. That job had semi-pedestals at each basin so more of a pita to get at them later. The other major benefit is being able to leave rooms isolated if they haven't yet been first fixed and then bringing them online, one feed at a time, to check for leaks / commission. Very handy in a part-complete build as you don't have to keep draining down and interrupting the water supply to already connected outlets. There was another 2-port manifold at the bottom of that pic ( yet to be fitted at the time iirc ) which serviced non-softened water. One to the boiler filling loop, and one to the kitchen sink cold tap ( for filtered water tap & cooking quality water ) plus it also tee'd off at the kitchen sink and supplied the outside tap. In an installation with a softener and an accumulator, the point where you tee the outside tap off from is of critical importance. It needs to be directly after the incoming cold stopcock and before the non-return valve of the accumulator**, or multi-block of an UVC arrangement. The outside tap should be before any pressure reducing measures so it influences the cold pressure to the house as little as possible. **You don't want the outside tap to be using stored energy from the accumulators,
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You normally fit spacers ( door stop size timber ) between them to allow airflow. If it's just one or two then maybe worth trying, but it could go wrong tbh. 1-2mm isn't going to be something anyone other than you notices so maybe best left alone, or buy 2 new doors and gum tree the others?
