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Are you able to lower the temp for an overnight period.. or do you just keep it on deliberately like the day setting?

@joe90 right Im on board with your idea now.. great thanks for that/ this will be neatest way. Nice idea whoever thought of it too. These bits of skirt not fixed in yet: plan is to fix in all but the top step piece, as the door frame needs going in before this bit. Ive got carpeter penciled in tues you see.. so I need to do frame, plus put these skirt bits in, paint them all.. before. Jeepers. @Onoff yes that's what I thiought you meant- I'm left with the annoying 'end' of mdf tho this way, which seems to remain brown mdf'y even after 2 coats of woodpaint unlike joe's idea/ the visible edge primed. thx

No way not at current plumber rates. I just have to form a plan to put to my installers, rather than demand, certainly not fight them if Steamy Tea's paid for it all. I'm still struggling to understand the dribbles at the mo: this only just sprung on me. They did suggest it -was- related to new pump & it would settle down, so I've got to wait &see if it subsides 1st. Then I can be a bit more forthright if it persists. In the meantime its no longer a (rotten) ASHP now new pump in, & a huge difference thank god (& thx to Vailant I must say- no fuss, they just did it asap). So now its just a compressor-noisy ASHP, with teething issues let's say. ProDave how many rads does yours run, & what kW is it?

One of the reasons Ive been inclined to contact vailant on this noise, altho told by installers to get back to them 1st (I have done mostly), is the feeling that altho installers competant -they do nothing but these arotherm installs one after another/ so are good at fitting- they don't seem experienced in the workings. 2 young chaps in 20's, each with a team of even younger trainees = coke bottles to tidy up, grubby walls, grubby carpets etc. I asked what was in the high pressure pipes for eg, "erm.. I think gas is it?". So Im confident if I put these technical points to them, they'd be scratching their heads going thru manuals avoiding reply. The vailant engineer(s) were what you'd hoped turn up: in their 50's, highly pro, very experienced in the workings & if I put these points to them.. they'd have answers (more akin to yourself MJN & ProDave discussing here: impressive knowledge btw). Many thanks for your input- zoot.

Ah understood, but installers fully aware Vailant changed pump. I had to take the reins & call Vailant/ disturbing sleeping isn't something I could wait on installers to stall on. Ok I can call them anyway about this- there are a few things I need tidying up tbh. Hole in outside wall left unfilled, some old wiring near cylinder not properly tucked away. I can also ask on the compressor noise too: if my spare bedroom is unuseable now, that's gotta be an issue itself.

@joe90That pic does my nut in. I can't figure it out, or rather can't figure out how that could be done with my area.

@joe90 I'm lost.. dunno where you're referring to exactly with the sketch joe. Isn't Onoff suggesting just nipping off like 1/2" off my front edge of the mdf?

@Onoff or did you mean champfer edge, with a chopsaw tilted over? Any idea what these damn mdf ends can be painted with? I put woodpaint on, come back & its dissapeared/ gone back brown again.

Ok I suppose.. tho seems a bit odd to me if it no dribbles before the vaillant engineer faffed with it. So, if I were to email my installers.. what to say/ just its dribbling alot, pls fix? (they'll say 'that's to be expected after new pump' I'm sure).

@Onoff great that's a plan.. but in practice with a router I can only see the bigger 18mm section getting cut/ the profiley bit just gets left as it. Is that what you had in mind? IE the 45* follow-guide-bearing on the bit will only hit the larger 18mm side.. it'll be above the profiley bit. I think.

Haha! No, I mean Ive been saying repeatedly, that there was a problem (main BIG prob- noise) & it was fixed by Vaillant fitting a new pump (well 1/2 the noise prob fixed, the remainder from the compressor still to be addressed). There was a prob & the installers didn't fix it. I called Vaillant & they fixed it.. then.. it starts doing its big dribbles already. How can I demand the installers back to fix this-?

ProDave, did the installer fit the new pump? if not who did?

@joe90 joe what do I do here. These 3 skirt bits not glued in yet. Ok I need to edge the front skirt bit w'summink as it looks odd (I can't continue it on into room- too tricky & no more skirt left, both L&R sides so has to end here). i know its a bit of a compromise.. but will have to do. Pic will follow/ edit/ gotta jump onto my flippin ipda.. zootmultiflippintaskhorn.

Thx.. but what a b'stard job boxing these- an utter sod. And I got 2 rooms more of it to do with all the new rads/ pipes mayhem. I know its all going on at once here joe. I can't really cope tbh. Did you find your diy doppleganger? gotta be you, surely.

Yes you've paid for it. Now, can you pop over & mend it pls its dribbling?

Understood. So if my low pressure issue, & this new issue I didn't even know was an issue until you said so, is connected with the installation of anything -other- than the new pump, I fully take your point that the installers should be those who come back & fix it. But ProDave how can this dribbling -not- be connected to the new pump install, if, it only happened as soon as it was fitted & not before tho? pure coincidence?

Didn't pay either! You think the installers should rectify a problem linked to Vaillant fitting the new pump-?

@joe90 taken Most of a week this bloomin Boxing.. thanks for the help, sketches joe

Hi Peter sorry missed this reply.. the innitial install included a hw cylinder yes. Pic for joe Of it coming up..

@daiking trouble at mill.. same thing happening in private mode. Last ev the same few secs youtube doc playing.. then 1min wait as it buffers, impossible to use.

ProDave- ok that's conclusive as to a problem then thanks. But I'm back to same thing: this only started after new pump Vaillant fitted. Are you referring here to Vaillant as effectively being the installers on this issue then?

Straight out the wall joe to the outlet pipe, slight downhill etc.

@ProDave ok this is gaining clarity now. Yes Ive seen this black thing, I easily traced the outside outlet pipe back to this thing inside the house.. & since this pump installed notice it drip driping away sometimes even a slight stream. I was told by installers, to expect a bit of water asap after the new system installed 3 months ago. That it did, then settled down after a few days (never ammount I saw a few days ago, a week+ after this new pump fitted tho). I still feel reluctant to ask the installers back, if/ as seems highly probable, its an 'after-issue' directly linked to a new pump a Vaillant engineer's just fitted. But you still think its for the installers to rectify-?

Aha! yes of course, if you mean here is the mystery "leak"? Right that makes sense. Its definitely linked to the new pump: I have only seen this excessive water (I assume it is a bit excessive, & not normal) after the new pump fitted. So is it a problem of the innitial installers? surely you can't put this problem in their intray to sort out.