joe90

No I am not 👍 (well not for much longer).

I have never liked the idea having replaced customers waste pipes full of crud which I think could only get worse!

Bob flowerdew (tv gardener) recommends using old carpet (he is a hippy though 🤷‍♂️)

A warm welcome, lots of knowledge here on many subjects. Ask away (and we like photo,s)

Usually the diaphrams fail and they can be replaced cheaply.

I think this is an excellent idea especially if you can stack them and build a cupboard around them, I did this in a previous house in a downstairs cloakroom And it just looked like a cupboard 👍

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I completely agree. I tend to only refer to professionals for things like S.E.s, electricians, plumbers etc where knowledge of regs and complicated calculations are needed or insurance, other things (IMO) are on a more “practical “ level, “well I did this and it works well for me”. When I was working as a builder I was often asked what I would do, and I didn’t mind giving my opinion but always with the caveat that I didn’t have to live there and there is no right and wrong only opinion. With this thread (IMO) the architect/project manager did not follow the customers request (and I would be asking fir an answer from them) however whatever @Sophiae decides is what would work best for them and we are here to offer our opinions (on what would work best for us.) 👍

I disagree, we tend to have better advice than your project manager/architect team. Lots of different opinions but nearly all based on actually doing stuff, not theory from a “professional”.

My brother in law has recently refurbished a grand country house and rather than disturb walls and architectural woodwork he installed quinetic stuff which he loves.

That’s what I said above (and done) 👍

🤣 it’s a shame this happened but shit happens I guess, I am sure he meant well, I was trained many years ago but admit I do not know the current regs so apart from simple things I don’t go near other stuff (I ask @ProDave 🥳), shame he moved to haggis land.

For me it worked very well, I had a chimney breast in the way of a “normal “ door so the bifold meant I could fold the door to get past it. I used parliamentary hinges to enable it to fold 180’ 👍

@LSB I did exactly as your lower drawing, (DPM dips under door frame) the patio slopes slightly to help rain run off and prevent puddling, and no drain, even with driving rain no problem.

I had no running gear with the ones I made, simply hinges and magnetic catches.

If you can’t find a pair of 400mm doors why cut cut a standard door in half then veneer the edges ? (if not solid oak already).

That’s not a door, that’s a plank 🤣🤣🤣(sorry) mine were cheap panel doors and I built the cupboard around two 24” doors.

His whole house IS a basement 🤷‍♂️

Yeh right 🙄 I finished mine in 3 years and now moving onto my next project (you can’t keep a good man down 😎)

Which year ? 🤣

In a previous house I made my own bifold to hide the washing machine and dryer, you only need a pair of narrow doors and hinges 🤷‍♂️.

I no longer have a SWMBO, so I can have as many sheds as I want 🥳.

Henley block? (I am no electrician but I thought this is what they were for?).

Bag of shit. I hope you have not paid him?

Mine is 75 radial and only one feed to all area,s, many tales here of MVHR being run at lower rates than theoretical ones so I recon you will be alright 👍