marshian

Quick Google https://www.r-e-a.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Boiler-Upgrade-Scheme-Launch-Event-QA.pdf 1. If a customer disconnects from the gas grid, and then a heat pump is installed, then reconnects back to the gas grid (say for cooking purposes) what would happen? 2. Can a gas connection be retained for cooking purposes? Answer: Heat pumps are eligible to be installed in properties on or off the gas grid. A gas connection may be retained or reconnected for cooking purposes. 2. Can a gas connection be retained for cooking purposes? Answer: Heat pumps are eligible to be installed in properties on or off the gas grid. A gas connection may be retained or reconnected for cooking purposes.

I thought that the BUS Grant wasn't impacted by continuing to use gas for cooking?

Alternatively - if you get some solvent weld adhesive and it melts the down pipe fitting you might be able to pie cut a fitting and then solvent weld it??

I'd be gluing a 45 deg bend to the down pipe and then firing up a hot air gun and heating the downpipe just after the bend to make it form to the required 38 deg angle - you are never gonna see it from ground level and the water is going to want to flow along the bottom of the down pipe anyway

When I was doing my suspended ground floor insulation a couple of years ago I was reasonably flexible with thickness - I could use anything from 60 mm to 100 mm it's worth investigating / calculating the cost comparing sizes sometimes there is a sweet spot where it works out you get better price For me 75 mm was a few pence more that 60mm but a significant amount cheaper than 80mm (obviously if you need fixed thicknesses and can't deviate then it doesn't help)

Yeah that’s a little bit more flow than the average rad based gas boiler circuit due to a very low dt (for clarification my usage was based on boiler dt of 5-7 deg c - a flow rate of 0.4 m3 / hr at a WC flow temp of 23 to 32 deg C. My old grundfos pump was 35W at similar flow rates (modern pumps are witchcraft)

70W is a pretty high usage for a modern circulation pump on a gas central heating circuit - mines using 13W 13W x 24 x 180 = 56kWh or £14 It was one of the factors I worked out before going 24/7 on CH The old pump I will grant you was a Watt hungry little sod.......... Imagine if all the houses in the UK adopted modern pumps saving £50 a year - the payback would be under 3 years.............

Hopping on the conversation - does anyone know what the scores are for all aspects of EPC assessment - I've googled a few times and not had a decent hit?

You're thinking shove the WD40 can in the mouth - because yes that would?

No I haven't - can I borrow yours? I don't mind the odd drip

My forum signature in a different place as always “in life you need three things - cable ties, duct tape and WD40 - if it moves when it shouldn’t use cable ties or duct tape - if it doesn’t move and it should use WD40” I am partial to old Opels so it’s pretty normal for those cars

just needs duct tape over the mouth to resolve the noise issue caused by cable ties

Really interesting @JohnMo and prompted me to work mine out - good way of looking it it

I didn't want them to be frightened by the stranger in their nest In hindsight I probably should have reduced the compressed air pressure slightly - I may have nuked the nest a little harder than intended - this made clean up a little longer than I had expected!!!!

I couldn't find anything like that when I had a massive wasp nest in my garage roof - I was up there extending the socket ring main and they really really weren't happy with me being there. I gave it a dose of wasp killer spray and but it only killed the stripey b*stards outside the nest and clearly they weren't happy inside the nest - I couldn't get close enough with a can and lance....... So radical measures required 3m 15mm copper pipe and a suitable plug Obviously I made the plug stripey b*stard friendly Then a decent load of ant powder (Apparently it has same active ingredients in powder format) From a distance of 3 m I lanced the nest and then with a compressed air feed I injected the ant powder - pushed down the pipe by the ear plug Next night it was very silent and I cleared it all up A massive number of lavae were in the nest and the whole lot went in a bin bag and I was able to finish my wiring!!!