Big Jimbo

It is a difficult one. When i had my kitchen company. I would spend a good few days designing a kitchen that would look stunning, and perform the tasks, and needs, and wants of the client. They were high end hand built, and generally in excess of 50k. I stopped giving out my drawings when i designed a kitchen that was £127k +vat. The client loved it. I never got the job, and found out later that the celeb client did'nt think i would be able to do the kitchen for that price. They gave my design to another company, who copied it exactly, right down to the personalised engraving on some of the wood, and charged £200k. I was miffed, so i would say, go to the company who did the design. You never know, they might even have built it and have some real world ideas of how it could be even better.

I do think Nick is the fountain of knowledge on all things water.......Very handy chap to have on here. Thanks Fella.

Boiler sorted. Hero dad. It was the spark igniter. Housed right at the top of the boiler. Full of water and obviously causing a short. Had a shake, and then got the hair drier on it for 10mins. Just goes to show that the fault code it was showing was right. The annoying thing is that it was all caused by the plate exchanger spraying water all over the place. The new plate exchanger was £87, but the agro it caused was priceless..... The boiler was put in by a good mate, and I was there. Straight in, no leaks etc. Now if you can see from the photo, the bottom of the plate exchanger is deformed.... I bet it leaked at the factory when tested, and was overtightened at the factory to stop the leak. I expect that's what you get for buying a cheap boiler. Ravenheat cs80. They never bloody break in the summer. Rest of the day is mine, so I'm going for a lie down.

Thanks Nick. I'm going to give that a go.

Only other thing i might check is the output from the board to the gas valve. I can do that with a multi meter. I think it's 24v to the gas valve. I bet the board is at fault, although i bet the plumber says gas valve. we shall see.

Not many of those around. I had w/b service engineer out a while back. He just kept chucking in new parts untill he got it working.

Yes it was fella. The book says error 01E ...No flame......Check the gas supply.....Ain't touched that......Check the overheat thermostat.....Not been near that.....Check the gas valve.......Ain't, and won't be going near that.......Check the spark igniter......Check the electrodes..... I am thinking water in the control board.....I don't mind mucking with the wet side, but it's over 25 years since i was Corgi. I won't touch gas these days.......I bet the plumber says Gas valve, and i bet it ain't.

Done the on/off. Error code01 is gas supply/ignition problem. And i did'nt bloody touch any of that. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

What a pain. Call from my daughter this afternoon. Dad water persisting out of my boiler, all over my bathroom floor.... I go round, switch off the boiler electric supply. Shut off all the water valves, cold supply, central heating flow and return, and mop up. Take the cover off the boiler and start drying up. plate exchanger leaking. Got the same boiler sitting in my garage. Nip down and take out the plate exchanger. Drain her boiler, fitted the new exchanger. Took off her filter as it had service valves. Cleaned that. Topped up the system, and even put in some more inhibiter. Bled all the rads. Rock and roll, ready to turn the power back on. Click. Bit of start up noise......error code 01. Grabbed the book. Error code 01 is gas/ignition problem.....but i ain't touched those.....pressed the reset clear button....Boiler tries to start, fan kicks in etc, but won't fire....Error code 01 again.....So i said to the boiler "I ain't touched the bloody gas" .....hard reset (Basically hold the re-set button for 20 seconds).....same error 01 code...... So now i am going to have to get a plumber who will no doubt tell me, needs a new gas valve mate.......And i bet i dont.....Only other thing i can think is that when spraying out water some of it might have got onto the control board, although when i had a look, that did'nt seem to be the case. The joy of plumbing, and daughters....Lets see what tomorrow brings.

Yep. Free flowing into the toilet cistern.

What a twat. Missed pic

Beds in sheds. Just make it into an illegal hmo. Loads of money! Only kidding. Anything is possible, but you may be better at looking to replace. It looks like sectional concrete. I think any purchaser would find it hard to get a mortgage. Converted buildings are always coming up at auction like that. Non standard construction.

Morning gang. Should the condensate on my daughters boiler look like this. I took it off a couple of weeks ago, and cleaned it out. The ball was very sticky. Is it right that the ball should be right at the top, and the condensate trap full of fluid?

Right all you lot. Leave my buddy Pocster alone. When he glued his soil pipe bits up, It looked stunning. That, and the fact that he had the massive balls to post a pic of his first effort....

Well done Temp. Top of the class. Not many people know that about Balsa, and most people think Oak is a hardwood.

Oak is quite soft, infact it is actually a soft wood, and not a hardwood as most people think. As you said, Wenge is very dense, and heavy, and cost a considerable amount more than Oak.

As per Tom's post above. I would look into it but, Very recently 100mt from me. 5 barns with Part Q. Guy went back in for planning for 5 new instead of converting the 5 barns. Total, flat refusal, stating that the barns were only able to be converted due to part Q, and that was not a fall back position ! Frankly the whole planning system is written very badly, and needs to be thrown away, and written in plain english. Councils are able to interpret as they please. My own place is in the green belt. Managed to get permission to extend to 6 times the current size. I went back in for Two new houses, that would fit inside the One (permission obtained) Large house. Refused for overdevelopement in the green belt. Went to appeal, and refused with the comment "No need to look at it because the Green belt policy should not be over-ridden. However different planning officer, same council, passed exactly the same about a mile away from me. Planning is a minefield. You do have your Part Q which you will retain. If i was to look to go back in for permission, i would want somebody great to design something fab. I would try and then get the local councillor to call it in, and get it in front of the committee, rather than leaving it to the council planning officers.

Those pics are looking good. Starting to move forward. Looking forward to seeing the new roof.

Ì love fitting LVT. I don't do it for a living, but i have done loads. I can easily do 50sq mt in 2 days, including through doors etc, providing the floor is ready to accept. At £30 a sq mt that's £1500 for Two days work. Nice for the fitter. Not so nice for Canalside. I must be old, because i have a pal plumber. He said he likes to charge enough on a job to earn a minimum of £500 a day. That's £10,000 a month with no weekend working ! Perhaps that's why i am a tight git, and end up doing everything myself. A couple of years ago, i had a brickie do the walls on a smallish extension for me. He did it for £2000 cash. I supplied all the materials, including the mixer, add. Even tea, and bacon sarnies. He bought another brickie with him, and a lad to feed bricks, and blocks and the mixer. They did it in 3 days, so £200 and £150 a day for brickie and lad =£1050, leaving the main man £316 cash per day.

Your title say it all. Bad idea. Dog barks. delivery arrives. Child falls over and cut themselves. To many reasons to walk away, and leave it running.

Looking good Zoot the Hoot

Exactly. I'm grassing on him.

Ferd. The wheel on that trolly is not locked. I'm no grass, but i'm phoning H and S.

It's a few years ago, but you could try contacting RNIB. They used to do wicker baskets, any height, depth, etc. They were great prices, and obviously raised a few quid for them.

Exactly Jo90. you don't want to screw up your vat claim. The other thing is insurance.....Most of them will take anything they can find to not pay out. So if your camping stove burns the place down, i can see the insurance company saying. "No completion cert" You should not have been living there.