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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.

Yep but it may as well be in French

Help! Any ideas? I think it's something to do with flow bur I can't work it out and everything seems to be off.

We love it. There is an odd mark on the drawers but we should be able to touch those up.

The lovely joiner guy plus me and the wife! Who knew the joiner does a lot of weight training ??

Here it is, less than £1700 all in with the quartz worktops, wardrobes and fitting. Only minor gripe is that as our dressing table was in a slightly different place than it was originally fitted and connected to things and as we don't have it connected to anything you can see where the skirting was cut and in hindsight we should have had the worktop longer so the joiner could have put an end piece on. There will be a standing mirror there so you won't see it and perhaps we can think of something to put there to cover it. Needless to say we are putting clothes into something not made of cardboard tonight ? VID_20211029_165849.mp4

We do have doorways so I'll need to check we also have one step as the bungalow is split level! My dad's knackered his shoulder so is out of action and our neighbours are in their 70s! Getting extra hands at the moment is proving difficult, or rather anyone who doesn't have a knackered back/neck/shoulder (and that includes me)!

I'm getting some grief for this. We have a lovely piece of quartz to go on the dressing room island. We got the dressing table piece on, moving it from the hall to the bedroom with lots of swearing about how I should have got it put in the bedroom to start with (I know I know, had it not been delivered at the most inconvenient time I should of - hindsight is a wonderful thing)...... Large piece of 3cm thick quartz 128x113 we can't lift (it's a bungalow thankfully but it's two opposite ends of the house)! Is there anything I can use to help make the job easier as well as finding two people stronger than us? I know two men lifted it into the house so it must be possible!

I just do! I don't drink milk, coffee or pop/juice as I don't like it. So it's water, herbal tea (or gin)!

I drink a lot of water but the Quooker tap/cube has a water filter for cold/sparkling water so I don't notice any bad taste with water rather it's the bathroom taps I am most worried about. I'll look into options and up my cleaning schedule!

We are unlucky to live in an area where we have terrible hard water. It's destroying our bathroom taps which are all Bristan/Hudson Reed so not cheap ones (we have to descale the Quooker tap/boiler regularly and coffee machine). I have tended to clean the bathroom taps almost weekly with vinegar but this is one of them. The waterfall taps in our ensuite are even worse. I don't want any sort of permanent softener as it causes problems with shampoo/hair washing stuff but at this rate we'll be replacing all the taps less in than 12 months! Is there anything I can do to get them looking good again/preventive measures?

It really is! Hopefully once it's back on we won't have to touch it again!

Cheers @TonyT nailed it, now got them working on PIR yay!

It's never been connected, we are putting new lights on. The lights are only on when the switch is on inside the house. We want them to work with the sensor. If we were to walk outside at night the lights wouldn't work with the sensor unless we turned them on by the switch inside the house. If the lights are off on the switch inside the house and we go outside when it's dark you can hear PIR sensor clicking. We just can't get the lights AND the sensor working together.

My wife has asked me to put this on here. I'm posting it so she doesn't blow everything up.... On the drawingbelow only the live wires have been shown for as the switch is packed with wires. The left hand side of a rocker switch is the one we are struggling to decipher, the right hand side deals with the inside hall x3 spotlights. The left hand side is dedicated to a sensor and 2 outside light with wires to the switch for both the lights and the sensor. How this is currently wired the lights can switch on or off OR the sensor can be clicking on without any lights, but both the lights and sensor do not work together. If we move the sensor wire marked up C in L1 into the live wago block will the sensor will be permanently fed, but do the A and B wires need to be relocated?

Success, Hudson Reed are replacing the sink so just need to get the other one off the unit (think it's been siliconed on). Ordered a new plug/waste and going to fit everything myself thanks @wozza for the video. The new tap we have ordered from Bristan comes with plug/waste but I will probably order this as well https://www.screwfix.com/p/thomas-dudley-ltd-basin-waste-seal-kit-3-piece-set/8795r which seems to get good reviews to make sure everything is sealed properly. Hopefully that will be the end of the issues.

Ok so previously this plumber has replaced the bottle trap and the chrome plug/silver thread waste (twice he has replaced the chrome plug/silver thread waste and I do believe it was all sealed. In desperation last night we messaged a local plumber, one that comes highly recommended but is booked til Feb asking for advice. I sent him the pictures, video and he asked for pictures from the top/of the sink itself. I explained the dripping doesn't start immediately, rather seems to occur shortly after running the tap. His comments mirror @PeterW as this is what he said: I've seen this before.. its a faulty basin where there is a small crack in the shell of the basin as it has an over flow in it. Replace the basin.. I've messaged Hudson Reed to see what they say as it their sink and it hasn't been fitted 12 months. Thanks for the video, I've got PTF tape from plumbing in the boat so I'll be fitting any new sink like shown there. I should be an expert by then as I'm doing a complete fit out of the bathroom on the boat with new shower and folding sink and fitting a whale gulper pump. Wish me luck ?

Here's a better video. Whatever is causing it doesn't happen immediately when running water, it's more once the tap is off as water passes through VID_20211014_144016.mp4 VID_20211014_144016.mp4 VID_20211014_144016.mp4 ;