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  1. richi
    Yeah, but I was looking for something that would genuinely cope with a whole house. Cistermiser says to remove the divider (#8 in the picture) to get more polyphosphate balls in contact with the water for whole-house application. Refills seem to be about £25, including replacement O-rings. Said to last 12 months.
  2. richi
    As an alternative to a conventional salt-gobbling, kitchen-cabinet filling, water-wasting softener, I'm planning on installing a whole-house Combimate (made by Cistermiser). This is one of those polyphosphate micro-dosing thingies (it adds about 2–3 ppm of food-grade polyphosphate, which sequesters the dissolved calcium, so reducing scale). @JSHarris almost certainly knows about the idea, but I thought of him when I read the claim that it's also good for red/brown water from boreholes. I was going to get a BWT Combicare from ScrewFix, but was put off by DIYnot denizens saying they often plug up with scale, which is kinda ironic. Or there's a similar Italian product I found on FleaBay. So anyone got experience of these things? Do they work? Do they keep working after a few years?
  3. richi
    The crew here are laying a Visqueen Polythene DPM layer on the concrete screed, then 100mm of Recticel Eurothane GP, and then 22mm Caberfloor Moisture Resistant, glued together with Caberfix D4.
  4. richi
    I guess so. I paid £45 (no VAT) for an EPC in 2012.
  5. richi
    The wrinkle about CNAME that can catch people out is that you can't use them for mail servers. In other words, if you're running an SMTP mail server on the Pi, its MX record can't point to a CNAME.
  6. richi
    +2, although be aware you lose Section 75 rights on an credit card payments via "indirect" processors such as PayPal.
  7. richi
    OK, you're on. We don't need no stinkin' PM Not tomorrow, please; but Monday should be OK
  8. richi
    Sorry for the delay: Just back from a soul-destroying trip to Wickes and some sort of flooring emporium/shed. They're each 770x1600 mm. I'll leave you to measure your load area! Presumably, you'll want to stack them on top of each other, so I guess you'll need adequate soft packing between them, to protect the glass tubes.
  9. richi
    I guess the shorter dimension is ~600mm (I'm looking out the window at them at the bottom of the garden)
  10. richi
    ...or just come get these three old-skool tube panels: http://forum.buildhub.org.uk/ipb/topic/2494-free-solar-thermal-panels-x-3/#comment-39425
  11. richi
    Hey, feel free to put the entire cost on the card. Alternatively:
  12. richi
    I say again: The total needs to be above £100, not the CC deposit. (This is my final word on the subject, unless someone offers a credible source that says otherwise.)
  13. richi
    [citation needed]
  14. richi
    Citation for the "£100 total" rule: moneysavingexpert.com/shopping/section75-protect-your-purchases#deposit
  15. richi
    ...or even Lidl
  16. richi
    Shouldn't be necessary. As I understand it, the £100 minimum is for the entire transaction, so you could in principle charge just a penny card deposit. However, #IANAL.
  17. richi
    Yes, it has.
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