Nickfromwales

I think his content got exported, when he took a break from here. I’ve checked and his profile has a link to the off site blog, but it’s a dead end.

The cast one.

Defo need one person at the helm and the others following. One person to take the info, and one person responsible. If not, it’s he’s said / she said, or worse; when the chap you programmed fecks off for a few days leaving Larry and Mo behind, who immediately start doing their own thing.

That’s what I meant. Not saw one before but then thought what a brilliant tool. Only good for ground that’s largely organics though. Otherwise it’s a world of pain and digging with the narrowest bucket you can find.

Some farmers will have a pipe trenching attachment for their daily driver. Can shoot through this job in a day with that tbh.

I wish I could charge for “tools” lol. Could just drop my stuff off at 08:00 and collect again at 16:30, and say “stump up please “ Finally, the perfect career

A lot of companies go through due to cash flow issues and non payment, iirc Beattie was one that suffered the same demise; an otherwise fine and function-able company with a good reputation. Them going down affected other smaller companies that I deal with, which nearly put them under too. This is a 2-way street tbf, but clients can use CC’s to get covered whereas when someone didn’t pay their bill to me (more than once) I just had to suck it up. It’s near impossible to prove a client owes a contractor money, when mid multi-disciplinary turnkey works, unless your paperwork is as good as your practical work; mine wasn’t so I got screwed. I charge a fair bit up front these days, but only nominally and at as little risk to the client as I am willing to risk myself. I come via recommendation, clients fee to reach out etc, so the risk is with me; one client last year said they had 6-figures of funding in place, so I cleared my calendar for 4 months, and then said “oops, what we meant to say is, we’re flat broke and a year away from progressing”. Ffs. Left me in limbo looking to pick up another job then, with the resulting impact to my pocket book. Recommendations and trust are the best you can hope for, but both parties take a leap in one way or another, for sure!

Installation or manufacturing defect, quite common tbh. They should exchange that in a heartbeat, so I’d not panic. It’ll get worse, nothing you can do other than don’t open / close it, if you care that much of course. If the opening ‘door’ part of the bifold is the other end, then using that will have no affect, but if this is the ‘door’ then every time you open and close it you’ll see this crack grow. Let us know how you get on.

I’ve fitted loads of these, always ST, and never a moments grief; other than them clapping out after 100k miles, with a full military funeral.

I’m assuming this is to balance the chambers and possibly the output supply? If it doesn’t affect the shower, then I guess a design that allows it to work is not a flaw?

This is what I just scan read through. https://www.stuart-turner.co.uk/product/monsoon-u3-0-bar-twin-46410

Your missus said the 16a outlet would have been more than suffice

If you look back at @Jeremy Harris build, his retaining wall would fend off WWIII in comparison.

They have flow and pressure switches.

If you take into account both the drill and @Onoff then there were two tools in use lol.

The damn things will run molten for a long time if it’s an overload tbf. I ran some electric UFH (in screed wire) off a 30m 230v extension lead to test it. After a few hours I went to check all was good. There was a little camp fire in the centre of the plug top, literally a molten pool with a small swirl of smoke rising off it, and everything still on circuit and floor warming nicely <2kw load iirc. From that day on, the extension lead and plug were ‘together forever’, like Kylie and Jason lol. I reckon you can get easily north of 16-17a before these actually start to think about popping.

No, we’re being pedantic, I don’t like to be excluded from anything ok.

We’re not even supposed to use Denzo tape on potable copper feeds anymore.

Its great to have a good BCO.

It's got a 13a plug though, hasn't it..... lol.😘

Incorrect. It's 110v so the maths change! All the site trannys we've used (for 3 decades) have a 13a plug top, 16a or 32a. How else would you ever plug one in?

Should be barrier pipe, but only certain contaminants will really penetrate that pipe, and only over time; petrochemical spills etc. Dig around the damaged pipe, repair it, connect to tank and move on. Chop chop!

We're in the danger zone. @Tetrarch, go get the SE involved mate. Nothing that's said on here can be used on your project, and it's getting silly now A good SE will offer up solutions that you / your friend can't possibly even think up, so do yourself a huge favour and get some professional input plz.

Great news, but I'd suggest installing some CCTV in case of any vandalism during the construction phase, one camera you can see, and another that you can't. Did this with a since departed neighbour and caught them vandalising property, funnily enough facing themselves away from the visible ring camera, but directly towards the rechargeable Stick-Up camera. FWIW, the chap upstairs sounds like right idiot. They took kindness as weakness, which is a horrible trait. Been there, had the same, lesson learned.

Don't take this the wrong way, but what you've just written is utter tosh. 160mm deflection isn't even what the Severn Bridge has accounted for!! Get an SE involved immediately, as you are severely out of your depth and are just making crazy assumptions. FWIW I really do not think you need any prop or column, and I'd ask the SE to sister 2 beams side by side, across the internal leaf and the end wall, and then beef up the intersecting beam to suit. Or bring another steel further inboard to break up the distance of the intersecting beam. Hard to say without lengths, loads, sectional drawings etc tbh, but an afternoons work for any good SE. As I said, I've seen bigger unsupported spans many times before......