ToughButterCup
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Good to see properly stored (stickered) wood
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Interesting. Thanks for the post. How are you dealing with the penetrations to the Impey waterproofing layer? I've just been on a course run by Impey, and they did not cover that aspect of the installation..... ?
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Get the cheapest. Peter Millard does a comparison between the £30 Aldi version and a £600 one. Virtually no difference. (Easier to clean and maintain)
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Ok, then Big Boy ..... ?? H1, Page 8, Diagram 2 , Cross Section A, Key Both @ProDave's point , and indeed @joe90, nudged my thinking a bit further: it makes sense NOT to do what I initially propose. Its just as easy to insert a Y further up the line. That said, I now know the Regs a bit better: time not completely wasted, then.?
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I know that .... now. But any non-plumber looking at a T can see it looks like a Y and - if you don't know there's such a thing as a proper Y ... a few frustrating hours searching Tinternet disappears into the ether . I don't know what I don't know. If I did I wouldn'a started (from here)
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@ProDave, the Tee sits on the stack: upstairs loo piping descends to the left-hand branch and the right hand branch to the downstairs loo. Bosses used for hand basins. And, while admitting that a little learning is a (in this case) very dangerous thing, My sh!t chute is swept, baby, swept Man, that's a badly formed r .... I wanna meet your infant teacher.
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Thank you so much. ( Edited to add for completeness: Approved Document G3, 3.19 : Water heaters with a capacity of 15 litres or less that have appropriate safety devices for temperature and pressure will generally satisfy the requirement set out in G3(3). Building Regulatiopns 2010 Approved Document G, page 21.) Are you in the least surprised that I've ended up salivating over their kit? The only little alarm bell going off in my head is a comment I remember J making (years ago: ebuild?) about what Stiebel refer to as '.... temperature raised by 25 C ... ' In other words I need to satisfy myself that a cold-only supply will suffice.
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Thats what happens when a know-nothing like me reads about unvented water heaters. Its a painful process. Don't half learn a lot though.
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And at work, who gives a toss? Regulations have been fulfilled? Tick. Next.
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When its a Ring Seal Soil 110mm 92.5° Access Branch Double Socket Now, to me, that looks like a letter Y. But oh no, its a T or better still a Tee: not tea either. Took me 2 friggin' hours of research yesterday to discover that. Only just recovered.
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Bath: and maybe shower too.
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Ziss is vy I em choosink ze Tchgerman Kompanie Stiebel Eltron
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I agree @SteamyTea, but even that amount of spaghetti and infrastructure is too 'much ' for me. I was (am ?) looking at supplying 2 small bathroom sinks with just enough hot water, just in time. Enough to rinse yer toothbrush, wash hands and wash away the odd Daddy Long Legs. Settled on this : unless the commentariat rises up in outrage, that is.... Why? Next to no infrastructure No hot water losing its precious heat all day I can install it
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If you wanted to make a complicated, expensive, annoying system for delivering warm water, you'd invent an Unvented System, it seems. All that spaghetti, all those valves, all those regulations, all those regulators, tun dishes. I like simplicity. Unvented isn't. I now know why I'm not going to use an unvented system
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Oh yeah? Now you tell me ( just in time ? ) Thanks for watching my back. Is there any online guidance around?
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Heres a brilliant playlist on painting MDF
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Architects Role After Planning Permission
ToughButterCup replied to colin7777's topic in Surveyors & Architects
Here's a crystal clear answer. As an aside, our house features on the company home page ( the image with the dogs chasing a ball ) -
Thanks. I have 4 bar to an external tap where we live currently, so I'll have to limit the pressure somehow. Nuvver steep learning curve ahead, I see.
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So, what's the benefit of Unvented over Vented? Apart from the system being newer ....
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I'm currently researching instantaneous water heaters, and in that context I discovered that there are both unvented water heaters and vented ones. A bit more research shows that whole plumbing systems can be either vented or not. Whassa difference? Why would anyone choose one system type over the other?
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A very important and perceptive question to ask..... I am almost sure that the area definition for this calculation is based on what the RICS call Gross Internal Area. But I may be wrong. Broad indications of cost assume that 4ukUps don't occur. The sources of those, as you will know are legion.
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Hello, Build cost : very roughly £1500 per square meter. Less is possible but that's if you DIYMax. Ian
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You could also use PHPP - but @JSHarris 's s/s is simpler.
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Attention to detail - and the sheer drudge and hard work of following it up - is , for me, the essence of self build. There is nothing to be lost by insisting he ( I assume its a he - I bet a woman would have followed through on your request long ago) just bloody do it. Now.
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Cost of buying/renting bracing
ToughButterCup replied to eandg's topic in Insulated Concrete Formwork (ICF)
Bracing post major burst: £300 of wood and a day to put it up - a week of my time to to take it down.