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Have you found all the inspection covers? have a real good go to find them all, this way you can see flow from one chamber to another as he sucks it out. Then as he drops the level you can flush the bog to see where the pipe enters the first chamber.
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Leaking stop tap: why does it always happen to me?
Russell griffiths replied to ToughButterCup's topic in General Plumbing
What ya asking me for. I know nuffin. -
Start sucking you will soon find out, we have 3 on different properties i got one sucked out only to find huge slabs of concrete 1mx2m laying at funny angles in the bottom it turns out when they built the new one the couldn’t be bothered to remove the old one and just pushed it in the middle of the hole. I would suggest getting a man around with tanker and start sucking, you will soon get an idea as one chamber empties it will flow in from another, you will see if it is ground water coming in as it will obviously be a bit cleaner. One of mine will only drop 2 feet and then ground water pours in from the leech field flowing backwards, so we concentrate on sucking the solids from the bottom, get 1000ltres out and give up, if you carried on you would need to empty every lake within a few miles. Get sucking boy. ???believe me it won’t get better by ignoring it.
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That is true, but he hasn’t he has a cess pit.
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Why? they suck the shit out and you pay them bye bye shit, doesn’t need to be anymore complicated than that. Just google the closest one. I pay £100 for about 1200 L
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Empty ours every year without fail even if it looks ok, just good insurance.
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Hardest Part Of The Build
Russell griffiths replied to nod's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
Conveyor belt, easy. C,mon try harder. -
I fully agree with @Sensus if you build it as you have detailed I would expect your timberframe to start rotting out immediately and be beyond help within 5years. The other drawing shows a timberframe layout, if this is how it is planned to be constructed you need to go back to the drawing board and completely re design it, if you have drawn this up yourself say so, if you need a hand and we will point you in the right direction there are many knowledgeable people here who are happy to help. what you have there is a poor construction drawing for a shed.
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Twin Wall Flue Storm Collar...
Russell griffiths replied to Mulberry View's topic in Stoves, Fires & Fireplaces
Why not get a rubber one and cut the aluminium bit off and just use the rubber to pull down and sleeve over the lead upstand. -
Twin Wall Flue Storm Collar...
Russell griffiths replied to Mulberry View's topic in Stoves, Fires & Fireplaces
Have you not got a big rubber flange thingy with an aluminium outer that slides over the flue. This is what I have, I have never got around to actually fitting it down to the roof it is just slid on and pushed flat to the roof and it doesn’t leak even when not finished correctly. Do you have a pic -
BLOCK AND BEAM INSULATION Panels WANTED!
Russell griffiths replied to Patrick's topic in Heat Insulation
Get some prices for eps, I need a fair bit. 185m of 100mm -
BLOCK AND BEAM INSULATION Panels WANTED!
Russell griffiths replied to Patrick's topic in Heat Insulation
If that’s what you need just make them. 150mm eps make a hot knife and cut it out. Should be easy with your German background. Oh oh hold on I think I’ve seen you with a saw. All joking aside, that looks very straightforward to do. You could make them off site somewhere warm and dry and bring to site. I think you will find some insulation co will cut to desired shape. You could even just use two different thicknesses and glue together. -
BLOCK AND BEAM INSULATION Panels WANTED!
Russell griffiths replied to Patrick's topic in Heat Insulation
When I looked at mine I couldn’t understand why the infilled panels had to be a funny shape. Why can you not use 100mm thick eps 200 cut to 450wide to replace the blocks, then another layer of 100mm eps 200 on top glued down with a concrete topping for strength and rigidity. Dont know why they need to lap under the beams. -
Help me pimp my eaves please!
Russell griffiths replied to ToughButterCup's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
Oh sorry, where do you mean inside. -
Help me pimp my eaves please!
Russell griffiths replied to ToughButterCup's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
If you put pvc on your barn you will burn in Hell nope don’t do it must be wood to keep the look. You are pointing up using lime mortar and now want to use pvc. Nope don’t do it. ???? -
7.5 inch wide block work price?
Russell griffiths replied to Byron Littlefair's topic in Bricklaying, Blockwork & Mortar
If you don’t know this you shouldn’t be doing the job I’m sure you where asking last week what the going rate was for 190mm blocks. Wrong forum mate, sorry. -
Make sure the insulation is butted tight to each other as well no point having a 15mm gap and covering it with tape. And tape it to the wall vcl as well.
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Wunda underfloor heating
Russell griffiths replied to Russell griffiths's topic in Underfloor Heating
Ok cool will bite the bullet and see what they come up with. -
Wunda underfloor heating
Russell griffiths replied to Russell griffiths's topic in Underfloor Heating
This is a list of stuff in the quote, shall I pop into the plumbers merchants to see if it looks reasonable. -
Evening peeps. So I sent my plans into wunda to get a design done, knowing full well there is a £50 charge for the drawings, ok cool bananas. So I received an invoice and it turns out the cost has gone up to £100 refunded from your purchase. So am I being bent over ? do I just pay it as their stuff is good and it’s not worth the agro running around looking for other quotes, there quote has come in £1000 cheaper than continental underfloor. What ya reckon @Nickfromwales @PeterW And any other knowledgeable people out there.
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The more insulation the better, but obviously every job is different you probably need a chat with your builder, or do a test hole and see what you have there now.
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Help me pimp my eaves please!
Russell griffiths replied to ToughButterCup's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
So looking at that pic with the dog is that not what you are trying to achieve? little soffit, remove gutter and fit a facia. Or am I barking up the wrong tree, boom boom. -
In that case you could do with digging down further and getting more insulation in the floor, the extra insulation is relatively cheap, it’s the digging down that’s a pain, whats the headroom like ? Can you go up instead of dig down.
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Not meaning to be a killjoy here is this already a habitable room i really don’t like the idea of a kids playroom in a cellar, is there another means of escape in a fire ? i may be barking up the wrong tree but would hate for anybody on here to advise that this is a good idea without knowing more facts.
