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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!!!

I know I have a problem - acknowledging it is half the battle and I agree skinny cuts suck big wang............... I centered the shower controls and ended up with skinny cuts on the window - I spend less time looking at the window than I do at the shower controls - I'm at peace with the world

Now that I find perfectly fine - I think it's the off centre that makes it OK

Sometimes that's exactly what you have to do - call their bluff - it'll get escalated up the food chain and someone who has control of the purse strings will go WTF is going on.

I'd have centered it on a grout line so effectively a small cut out of 4 tiles but as I said it's probably just me Please ignore me