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    Here's Peter Millards review of a similarly low price tool.
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    Please God the linen cupboard doesn't need FD30s.....
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    Is it me, or does the requirement to fit fire rated doors upstairs (in our case FD30) mean we can't have MVHR? (Because of the gap under the door for the MVHR). Please tell me I'm wrong. Please tell me I'm overthinking! Reviewing current threads on and around the subject of fire doors, nobody seems to have pointed out that MVHR and FD30 doors are incompatible. Yet common sense says they ought to have door auto closers on them (but that requirement has been removed @PeterW here ) , but it seems obvious to me that a fire door with a gap under it is about as useful, well, as a chocolate fire door. I've reviewed Approved Document B, and the table on page 64 seems to suggest we could use an FD20. Both our bedrooms have a suicide door in them, (with a Juliet) so I suppose it might not be too bad.
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    Ooooohhhh you are awful, Declan. But I like you.
  5. ToughButterCup
    Just Do It.
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    I bumped into this... and will keep looking. Thanks for the nudge about 2040, hadn't thought of that
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    Oh, sheeeet. @Bitpipe and @jamiehamy, you did warn me that First Fit is a pain. I'm going to the NEC this Thursday. Any key names I should look for in terms of internal FD30 doors? (Going through the list of NEC exhibitors now)
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    So 826 it is, then. Final door opening - 4mm (2mm either side) wider - ie. 830.... ?
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    'Nother click. ?
  11. ToughButterCup
    Click! A light goes on in what passes for a brain these days. Thanks.
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    Yes, I appreciate that. That's why we have designed the downstairs such that a small area off our downstairs sitting room can be sectioned off to create a bedroom - right next to the downstairs wet room. I know it's a bit morbid - but I intend to snuff it in our house, and I don't want the paramedics to skin their knuckles - hence no internal doors downstairs.
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    Ahhhh, downstairs consideration only then? (We have no internal doors downstairs......)
  14. ToughButterCup
    Why not go the whole hog mate.....
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    102mm, well done. Pass Go, collect £100. Its not a deliberately stupid question. Everywhere we go , I've recently been surreptitiously measuring door widths. I try hard not to let Debbie see me do so - not entirely successfully. Door widths are important - but 102mm difference? Does so little make so much difference? Why not 964? Thinking about bedrooms upstairs, why would I choose 864 over 762? Yep, I'm of a certain age, yep, the usual is happening.
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    Deeply uncomfortable - bit too close to the bone for me. But a very useful reminder indeed. I'm paranoid about scaffolding safety now. Paranoid. Even worse - got @TerryE on my case... That's worse than the HSE ...
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    Nice idea. Very nice idea. The rafters are exposed (albeit under something like Kloeber Permoforte) ? There will be some fitting that works well - use that - and then cap it off with code 5 lead? As usual, I'm short on detail.....
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    That's an excellent filter. If he says he wants it - but not at the minor expense of a bit of paper, then in reality he doesn't want it. Call his bluff.
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    Oh for "%^&*()_!" sake..... I'm really tired - obviously. Thanks Ian
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    Getting any old 150mm screws (Crosshead, POSI) is easy. But I would like to use Torx screws because of my digital deviance. (Too long a story ) And I'm tearing my remaining hair out trying to source T25 Torx screws 150mm. Ideas?
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    Now: train the kids to mow it. Ours: " Get a ride-on and we'll think about it" Me: " OK, come and help me choose one - shop's round the corner" Silence, followed by a really fast disappearing act
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    Thanks Dave.
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    Mendacity. Can be a bit of an own-goal, sometimes.
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    See, folks. Ya learn summat every day. Thanks @ProDave. Now for the next lesson ... Something to do with rocks? Ge-olate?
  25. ToughButterCup
    'ope you've a licence for that son ....
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