ToughButterCup
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Double check valves. Why? Where? Says who?
ToughButterCup replied to ToughButterCup's topic in General Plumbing
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And just when I thought I was getting my plumbing well organised, I bumped into the terms 'check valve' and 'double check valve' in a YooChube video about fitting taps. Scheiße - schon wieder , verdammt noch mal ! At this stage of the game, I'm getting really tired: folks, could someone give me a quick sentence on where they should be fitted - and maybe a quick word or two of sageness about how not to use them? Please? Danke.
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If you can get it. Apologies for sounding a negative note: forewarned, forearmed ? In terms of ICF, PM me for a recommendation
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For them, that's a very common customer reaction. And one they will likely ignore. What were the grounds for refusal? Are those grounds reasonable?
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Thanks both.... SBR? OK, looked it up..... I don't suppose anyone makes SBD do they? ? Ya learn sum stuff on 'ere dontcha?
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Not worth a post is it? Unless those three holes are in the slab. At one stage, we planned to duct our MVHR from the piggery (a small building 5 meters from the main house) into Salamander Cottage. But @TerryE and others dissuaded me (condensation risk). Thanks. Now I need to back-fill the holes. Since they come through the slab, I thought I'd check a bit of radon barrier at the very bottom 500mm of EPS some fairly strong concrete on top Kinda hoping it's as easy as that.....
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Merchants and trade/credit accounts
ToughButterCup replied to eandg's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
When visiting, always wear work clothes - dirty ones. -
I'm beginning to wish Id never heard the name SunAmp. The idea and the theory is so appealing. The reality is niggly, piggly lack of attention to detail. If ever there was a case for the application of boring, clumping Teutonic thoroughness and attention to detail, this is one. Scheiße ist das alles.
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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 )
