Russell griffiths

I’m putting normal diesel in the digger, breaking my heart and bank account £60 this week already 100mm by the way.

Did you get your pet beaver to chew that pipe to length c,mon bud you can improve on that. Or or I will inform @Onoff

This all depends on your ventilation details, what are you doing to combat condensation you will get lots of condensation on the back of the sheets so you need to work out how it will dry out good ventilation is the first answer

Sounds interesting have you got any plans drawn up yet.

Hi Leigh, welcome.

I don’t think you can have what you want have you heard of that triangle of 3 things time - quality - cost. I think you have the same situation but with different headings no maintenance looks cost. So. Timber - looks good- lots of maintenance plastic- cheap- looks shit aluminium - looks sharp and modern- expensive you need to make a choice i have chosen timber, it was expensive and I know that I will need to re stain it every 2-3 years, it looks absolutely spot on and nothing else would have looked right except probably powder coated aluminium. Work out what you are trying to achieve.

Is there a way to insulate pipes from giving off too much heat, my design at the moment has a group of pipes running under a section of our kitchen floor, I have seen pipes with a thin duct around them in areas that might get extra wear or movement, is there a way of insulating a pipe so it doesn’t give out that much heat in a dedicated area. I did wonder about cutting every other pipe into the insulation surface and covering with another layer of insulation before the screed just to keep the heat output down in this location.

Thats a good bit of fall you have, wish I had some more fall, mine as looking very flat you will have a proper ??⛷⛷?

Cut price insulation are doing deliveries of both pir and plasterboard, just had an e mail from them.

But the main question on my mind mr @pocster is HAVE YOU BLOODY WELL SWEPT UP YET. ?????????

I’m just think of getting a list going of all the costs to use it versus an ASHP the maker of the boiler is not far from us, I did contemplate taking it back to them for a freshen up.

That would depend on if you use the Australian government guide to showers while I was over there they sent to every household an egg timer with a rubber suction cup to stick to the shower door, you flip it around as you get in and take a 3 minute shower. We had two girlfriends of my wifes staying and they asked what the egg timer was for, I explained and the said how do you expect us to have a shower in 3 minutes. I thought of how to explain and did a little demonstration that went something like. Armpit, armpit, fanny, bum and now your done. I don’t know if it was the New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc or what but they where all rolling around the floor.

That’s ok I put you on the banned list already. ??

Totally off topic @Mugwanya but anyway, I would be very careful with regards letting agents and holiday properties we own two holiday letts and my wife handles the books for a few others, ours are ok but we have noticed that in times like now when people are cancelling holidays that the letting agents are still taking their commission even though the holiday doesn’t go ahead. Look into a contract very carefully. Ps, if you let someone wash their dog in the bathroom you will need to refurb them every year and extra cleaning every week, warm tap outside for dogs, showers inside for kids, no bath takes too much hot water. We allow dogs and charge an additional rate for extra cleaning.

The thing is, I have a 3 year old boiler that has only done a years work when we knocked the old place down, space is not an issue i thought I would have an ASHP from the start but this boiler is sitting on a pallet staring at me.

So how does this influence anybody’s thoughts on me putting my oil boiler in still haven’t added up the costs compared to an ASHP if we think oil prices are always rising there will surely be times when it crashes so a good time to top up that tank.

As promised I’m back to stop you all getting bored one of the main high usage taps will be a distance of 20m from the cylinder is this getting crazy , am I looking at needing a hot return oh god my heads hurting again, all I need now are some smart Alec comments from @AnonymousBosch and it might push me over the edge.

Thanks peter, I will ask another question regarding cylinder types so I can work out what I need first.

Anybody got horizontal cylinder, I hadn’t considered one at all but whilst looking online at other things one popped up and could solve a few space issues I’m facing.

Ok, quick reply’s you must all be sitting at home bored hang on and I will come back with some measurements. Cheers all.

ASHP and a big cylinder. Oil boiler and a big cylinder yet to decide, got to get some prices going as I already have the oil burner.

I like the look of a manifold type water system, however I have some reasonable long runs for the hot water. Is there a way of calculating how long it will take hot water to reach the tap from a cylinder. I will have a measure up today to see what you all think I understand you can change pipe size to certain things. But it would like to be able to do a mock up to see if it will work before I dismiss a manifold and start thinking about hot returns.

Have done this, but no reply as they have probably shut up shop, I’m just concerned that if I have to follow this up in 4-6-8 weeks then it’s going to be difficult, all I have is the evidence in front of me. Oh well something else to annoy me.

I wonder if anybody has any thoughts on this. We had a load of cedar cladding delivered to site, all looks nice however I think I’m short on the quantity that I’ve ordered, I’m wondering how to provide evidence that it’s short i have counted every length twice, the wife has counted every length once, and we are short a dozen lengths which adds up to around £200 plus vat I’m wondering whether I should do a video of us counting it. We have sent e mails to the company but unfortunately it turned up just a couple of days before we all went into lockdown. If it ended up going into a legal dispute how do you provide evidence of what you have or haven’t got. Its a bit tricky as it’s only £200 but I have had words previously with the salesman from the company and I would rather chew my foot of then let them short change me.

Will access be good enough for other trucks, how about the concrete truck, concrete pump and other large things. It might be worth looking into putting in an access road across the land other wise you might be in for a very painful couple of years.