canalsiderenovation

Hi Our utility walls are always a mess and we are looking to tile one wall floor to ceiling where we have a bench (always getting marked as we sit on there taking off shoes etc) and then also tile around the utility sink from worktop to wall units and the side walls of the sink as it's continually filthy from scrubbing things, etc. We are looking at some metro style tiles in sage green. As we come around the side walls of the sink some of the top tile edge will be exposed and also the side edge. I know there is a silver edging which I'm not really a fan of but has anyone got similar that can tell me what colour/style of edging they used. Thank you!

Wishful thinking perhaps! I can't get the links to work but this is what Octopus sent me. My account still shows my current rates above. Guess I'll have to wait until my fixed term ends. I'm already on Go Faster so hopefully everything will stay the same ??

Same here. We heat the hot water by ASHP to the set 48 degrees kicking in during the Octopus Go 5.5p cheap rates (8;30pm for an hour and half only). We have been fine with this even on days of very minimal solar but in the past week we have noticed with some spring sunny days in the day the water temperature has risen to 56 degrees so the ASHP hasn't kicked in to heat the water in the evening as it's hotter than the 48 degrees. Last summer I turned the ASHP controlling the hot water off completely for 4 months as we just didn't need it as the solar was doing it all.

Our Go Faster Tarrif comes to an end this Friday with Octopus but I can't seem to find what the new rates will be I'll roll onto. Does anyone know who has recently rolled over? We are currently paying the following with the 5.5p per kWh between 20:30-01:30 which has been great for us in winter and on average half of our use is at the cheap times (hot water and heating mainly and running appliances when we have had limited solar). I'm presuming it's going up but I don't know what to!

It's all off unscrewed completely now. I'm going to clean everything today. Then tomorrow CT1 clear around tray corners where it meets showerwall, let it dry then Forever White over top around tray (only the sides against wall). Then screw channel back on, put back on glass and CT1 clear on OUTSIDE ONLY none elsewhere inside. Hopefully then this will solve everything....

It's off - there was a plastic seal! I'm a bit confused really as I didn't see any silicone inside to be honest but but we were getting water that appeared to be on the skirting (you can see the mark) and the opinion was it was water getting trapped in the channel. Do I now need to also remove the metal channel to see if there is any water or sealant in there before putting everything back and resealing?

It's off - there was a plastic seal! I'm a bit confused really as I didn't see any silicone inside to be honest but but we were getting water that appeared to be on the skirting (you can see the mark) and the opinion was it was water getting trapped in the channel. Do I now need to also remove the metal channel to see if there is any water or sealant in there before putting everything back and resealing?

I see the glass is fitted into the metal channel but how on earth do we get the glass out of it.

So the mission to take the screen off and reseal the tray as we have a leak where water is running from the skirting and I believe it's due to an incorrectly fitted screen thanks @Nickfromwales Removed silicone inside, removed bar, removed silicone on outside. It's still stuck! How the hell do you get the glass off the tray? Does it come out with the metal bit against the shoerwall, e.g. is the glass sealed into that or is there a knack. The bottom bit is moving but nothing else!

We are looking into prices for a fitted furniture for the office and my dad has kindly filled in the forms to open a trade account. His local Howdens is different to mine and I'm just wondering how this will work in practice. Can I log into his account as him and do a design and get a price or should he send me as a 'customer' of his into Howdens and let them do a design and then send the price to him. Obviously my dad won't be charging me any profit and will let me have items as trade prices, e.g. what Howdens charge him and I'm presuming they will be a lot cheaper than the prices we would get just going in without any discount but I don't know just how discounted they are!.

We have the TP link, we found if far easier to set up and it works great and we have WiFi all through the house now. Even got my parents a whole set up for their home/business when the main router is some 400m away in a separate building as the signal was so poor in the house streaming was impossible. It's a full signal now. If only we could get something similar for our mobile signal. It's fine if we have WiFi in the house as we can use wi-fi calling but if the power goes, no signal and outside the house no signal either.

@Nickfromwales exactly which bit do you mean? You can see here the build up of silicone and where it's run under the skirting This is the inside: How on earth do the damn screens come off?!?

Oh hell, I'll have to look into taking it all apart what a nightmare.

We have both and I use the overhead when I'm washing my hair and the handheld when I'm not.

I've got one of those fancy kits from Amazon and I am going to be removing the sealant on our walk in shower and redoing it as we have noticed water leaks out of the corner onto our bathroom floor which must be happening between the tray and glass screen as we have shower wall panelling. Can anyone point me in the direction of a helpful YouTube video or similar on how to seal a walk in shower or if there is a particular knack to getting it right to make sure it doesn't leak again! Ta

The one chucked on the chair - that would be me ? I'm not allowed to hang stuff up as apparently I put it in the wrong place and there is a 'system'.

That's between us - you can never have too many! I confess we are still sorting through some things and there's probably at least 3-4 that need to go - and we can buy new ones ?

We have got ourselves organised now finally! It's amazing! Accessed from our bedroom.... (Decorating needs to be done/redone next year)! VID_20211118_173929.mp4

I confess this is for our boat as we are fitting a whale gulper pump in our bathroom. We need some 19mm hose and we have been advised to use the type with a wire spiral inside which won't collapse under the draw of the intake side of the pump Similar to this: https://www.midlandchandlers.co.uk/products/hose-suction-green-3-4-id-per-metre-ah-001 Does anyone know of anything like this I can get online (the chandler's isn't local). Ta

I must be really nesh. Our neighbours came in earlier and said it was hot and I had a long sleeved top on and a jumper!

We definitely haven't had warm weather. It's been terrible, really windy and cold. But then I'm always cold ? You all must be further south!

I know! Engineer coming on Tuesday to 'replace flow switch'. We have had our heating on (and hot water as the solar isn't doing much) since the end of September and temperatures have been really poor generally for the latter part of October (down to 2 degrees). We have heating on all through the house with temperatures being boosted up during the Octopus Go Faster times (8:30pm-1:30am). I haven't been seperating our our ASHP use against our 'other' in October but i am for November so that will give me some figures. For October our total use has been 567.7 but I can't say what proportion has been our heat pump although generally our other use has been between 3-6 units when we were monitoring earlier in year albeit we don't have much solar now. A large proportion of our use is during the Octopus Go Faster times though so will be far less cost than using all at our normal rate of 14.63.

Alto are calling me as it was installed less than a year ago. Our heating has been on since just before October.

Turned everything off and back on and error has disappeared but I'll ring the installer shortly and see what they say.

It's less than a year since install so I can ring Alto but wondered if there was an easy fix.