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MikeSharp01

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  1. Not sure 50Pa will result in gale force wind, it is only 0.5 millibar pressure difference after all. I dimly recall that 4mb pressure difference gives 10mph wind, so 0.5mb = 1.25mph, although I could be very wrong on that as fluid dynamics not a strong point with me. To be fair I did our first suck out air test the other day and took the house down to 25 pa and I was hard pressed to open the outward opening front door. Will go down to 50 pa this week and see how the extract rate is.
  2. You could make it so by double nutting or Castle nutting it. Alternatively, assuming the nuts are not under load would be to use half nuts and then leave the 2 thread clearance. You could probably get down to bolt head thickness that way.
  3. Can we know more about what this comprises - bikes, scooters, rodeo simulators......
  4. Visited this place today - Little Morton Hall! Still up 500 years (ish) later. Spoke to the surveyor who says the tower moves a few mm (13) in a cycle over the year and depending weather, but its not sagging any more than it already had when they started measuring, which they do 3 x a year, 9 years back!
  5. We used AFT - they worked very well with us, they did the structural work with our SE, supplied the Kit, and supported us all the way. We prepared the ground, set out the kit, did the rebar work, attached the UFH to the mesh and poured the concrete ourselves.
  6. Yep me done to - via my phone which takes great pictures of QR codes.
  7. Welcome to THE forum for people like us.
  8. The structure above it needs assessing against then wash out. IE is the loading too great. Either way I would guess you, or the landlord depending on the contracts, need to put a stop to any more washout and look to back fill / underpin it.
  9. £300 for our as designed SAP in Kent!
  10. They just do sometimes - is it a normal breaker or one with earth leakage (Residual Current Breaker with Overload protection - RCBO) detection- if the latter then it is even more likely to trip, our oven regularly trips the RBCO when we use excessive steam!
  11. That is an interesting link - we live right on the boarder of London, 120m to London from here, and the overhead line that feeds us comes from London, yet we pay 16p a day more than our neighbors who do live in London and they pay slightly more per unit than we do. All a little bit mad. I must try and find out how this is calculated.
  12. If they are RECC members then they must also be MCS certified as the latter enables the former. So you may have two codes to leverage your claim but they may both give you the run around. Have you looked at their, RECC's, FAQs if things go wrong - https://www.recc.org.uk/consumers/if-things-go-wrong might help.
  13. Is it terrazzo surface you are going for? If so then a big chunk of the cost will be tooling for 157m2 you will get through a vast quantity of industrial diamonds and the associated pads.
  14. It must not be a private organisation it needs to be publicly accountable and with enough power to get things done. In my view getting all the leading bodies under this on wing would make sense. So include EG MCS / FENSA / GASSAFE etc should also be accountable.
  15. I found that the 75mm fits neatly into the 90mm and the seals work as well. So I have just used tescon tape around the joint to be sure it won't come apart.
  16. Yes if feels right to feed a Zombie - it just keeps shuffling along with with its limp hands on the ends of outstretched arms emitting a constant moaning noise. I wonder if Simon Pegg is on the forum, he would know what to do.
  17. Which window system are you using - I expect others would like to know as it simplifies so much to get them fitted air tight?
  18. Have your installers agreed to doing this as it seriously limits the time they have to get the windows in and fixed.
  19. Makes sense to support all the edges, we have kept a pile of off cut battens to do it between boards on our boarding.
  20. At the risk of offending our fellow members - WTF.. you can actually prove, using the three riders of the MCS apocalypse viz; data, physics and algebra that you only need 3kW and that your DHW demand is manageable in that envelope so why emit the carbon making an 11Kw unit when 3 will do it. This whole game is madness but if you want a decent EPC, in your self build, then your choices / options are limited.
  21. Not sure, others can probably give you a better steer EG @JohnMo, but I wonder if the 3 port valve in front of the buffer might lead to short cycling and defrost issues if the coil in the DHW tank does not have sufficient volume for the defrost cycle, the ASHP is not in control of the 3 port and it, the coil, is the only thing engaged when a defrost happens.
  22. Did you mean 'do' rather than 'don't'?
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