joe90

Very true 80 litre, one 3kW immersion, before I commissioned the ASHP I ran the immersion and UFH to test it and it worked fine. Your sizing may have to be larger for your usage/house. Also a larger buffer would stop the short cycling.

That is what we have and it works well and has reserve in case of breakdown.

Ha, just a check over, not like maintaining a gas boiler (and the cost of gas standing order!)

I don’t see the cost of a second ASHP being justified for the “odd day”. I have no heating upstairs apart from electric towel rads and my backup for the “odd cold day” is a couple of plug in electric heaters (which have not left the cupboard in two years!).

No, the mods will ban me ?

Good idea, can you post your drawings here, you will get lots of comments on how you can make it better.

I presume you also have a back up fridge and a backup freezer, they are very similar in construction. Immersion heaters (like I have).

That’s very good, tip no 1, leave the Mortor in the cement mixer a fairly long time to get air in the mix, will make it easier to lay blocks/bricks (I learnt this from my brickie).

@Paul Alan Are you doing your own blockwork..

Good morning and welcome, don’t forget there is no such thing as a stupid question, stupid is not asking!!!, there is lots you can do yourself with a little knowledge and help from this forum. I hope your BC passes your foundations (I am on clay as well with ordinary foundations ?). We look forward to your questions and hope we can help with affordable solutions fir you.

I do not believe that is the case. A few years ago I replaced my parents incoming lead pipe but my Dad did not want the disruption to the rest of the house.(very elderly) I read the T@Cs of the water Co,s policy on this and it did not say all the house lead work had to be replaced. When they refused to carry out the work I sent them a copy of their T@C,s and a manager rang me and apologised and admitted he had been doing his job wrong for years!,!,. They completed it the day after ?. this was a few years ago and Bristol Water so things may be different in different locations or moved on since then. So get a copy of your water companies T@C,s on this subject.

@Nickfromwales was right, it was not a street elbow but a tap connector, my bad ?. All hail the god plumber ?.

Those things are fir gardening, carrying leaves etc, not concrete. Get yourself a decent barrow fir a few quid.

Drill more holes if you want but there is not much load on it as it’s resting on the floor at the base and wall at the top and will be stiffer once all bolted up. ? (I prefer resin bolts, stainless threaded rod from screwfix cut to length, nuts, washers, resin) but as said above the hole must be dust free or the resin won’t grip the concrete.

You can get rubber inserts for connecting to lead pipe, I have used them in the past, this is just one, https://www.toolstation.com/lead-to-mdpe-coupler/p94085 just need to make sure you measure your lead pipe as there are different sizes.

As above, but its personal choice, my neighbour has a large island and I find it much too cluttered, my kitchen has large walking spaces , perhaps a mock up with large cardboard boxes?

Yes these don’t need an insert. yes with a new “o” ring. No need to disturb the joint to the red pipe.

That looks like a 15mm compression fitting into the tank, if you loosened the nut and removed the plastic 90’ fitting and replaced it with one of these and a piece of 15mm copper pipe, as long as that red pipe will fit onto 15mm copper. https://www.screwfix.com/p/endex-copper-end-feed-equal-90-street-elbows-15mm-10-pack/38275 might be good if you let your tame (new) plumber have a look (not your old one) he will know and have all the bits.

Depends on where you are, I can recomend one but he is near Bude in cornwall (he built all my windows, bifolds, front door and conservatory all in Oak).

Been there, done that, yes lovely place. Did you find looking over the side opposite the path scary?, no fence/barrier and a ,long way down , Pontcysyllte Aqueduct.

Interesting, I asked about this a few years ago, I am very rural but the signal varies minute but minute from 3 bar to nothing and I have to walk 1/4 mile down the road to make a call!!!!!. I also use an old phone (the only one that talks texts to me whilst driving in my Merc.) My builder had an EE phone, my son has an EE phone and they had no problem with signals so I may have to change phone and supplier (my cheap Tesco mobile does not do wifi calling.

Yup, that’s the ceiling not the paint ?

As per @PeterW says, just stiffen it, sister it with 2” timber by same depth with glue and screws. forget the post (you will only walk into it)

Just found my (fairly cheap) petrol strimmer not working properly, on stripping the carb the diaphragm is “crunchy” not flexible. It’s a Einhill copy but you can only buy the complete carb fir £40 plus vat, found on Ebay a carb gasket kit fir a Honda (which looks the same) so took a punt on £7 inc vat and postage, guess what, it fits ?????