joe90

With our fight for planning permission to replace a bungalow with a cottage, the planner, when she refused a third time, told me I would probably win if I went to appeal , then fought the appeal. The appeal officer passed ours with no conditions but noted the council were not even abiding by their own policies!

Just watched it on catch up, silly plonker, yes he took a massive gamble, but lost, even his wife. A message to us all, be realistic about your expectations.

I agree with ignorance, plus the fact bath taps are usually 22mm pipe threads. My new bath is 15mm pipe feeds with reducers to 15mm pipe from a pressurised DHW tank and mains cold (reduced to 3bar) and the flow is very good.

Why the need to produce water at 70’ (apart from charging sunamp,s). @ProDave and I are happy producing water at 48’ and find the losses from our (slightly larger) DHW tank acceptable (losses are only true losses when the heating season ends).?

When I lived in shropshire doing up a derelict cottage, I was away for the weekend and went straight to work on the Monday morning only to get a phone call from the police saying my site had been broken into and they think they had recovered my tools. It transpired the police were already on the drug gangs radar, and it was because some of my small tools were ex BT who I worked for previously, they traced me through BT and I got all my tools back. Years later in Bristol I was approached by a “tinker” in a car park of a DIY store who offered me power tools cheap, I refused, went into the store and spoke to the manager who called the police. The chap was arrested as all the tools were nicked and so was his van!!! It felt good to know the scrote was nicked.

Yes, Telford Tempest, PM @Nickfromwales for contact details and a possible discount fir buildhub members. Any losses from the tank only heats the house so for most of the year it’s not really a loss.

Bloke in Bristol tried that many years ago, burglar fell and hurt himself and successfully sued the house owner, who also got done by the police fir creating a “man trap” which is illegal. (Bloody good idea tho !).

Oh bugger, sorry to hear that. I got broken into years ago and the insurance company replaced everything without question but I found obscure stuff missing months after that I did not realise was missing at the time (and too late to claim) so make a long list.

Why? No, apart from outside tap and washing machine I have no service valves. If I suffer a leaking tap washer, shower valve leak ETC it will take me a very short time to sort out. (I am retired,?) if something is likely to take time to sort out I can always fit a temporary blank at the manifold by de-mounting the pipe and using a plug.

And me, which is why I bought one of these https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DYMO-LT-100H-LETRATAG-HANDHELD-LABEL-MAKER-PRINTER-MONOCHROME-BRAND-NEW/181402127590?epid=78068478&hash=item2a3c68cce6:g:OLcAAOSwqu9VQ0RD sticks to pipes cables etc etc.

With a ball valve (full bore) just before the manifold it’s no bother to turn this off if I need to fix anything.

I have a buffer tank with mine (recommended on here by the heating welsh wizard!) and in winter the ASHP permenantly keeps it topped up to 40’ and when the roomstat calls for heat fir the UFH there is less time lag waiting fir the ASHP to get up to temp. It also stops any short cycling. The buffer also has an immersion as a back up in case of ASHP failure.

Is this the right to buy thing?. I don't see why that should happen (putting tin hat on,!!).

Just saw the news and these council houses won the Stirling prize for architecture.

With mine the 22mm copper pipe will suffice, but I think even 22mm plastic would be stiff enough if the clips are close to the manifold.

Bob flowerjew on a gardening programme years ago recommended old carpet fir weed suppression.

Did you not have a weed membrane under the shingle?, a lot of people think the membrane for stopping gravel mixing with soil is the same, but it’s not, ask me how I know ?

Remember my thread about a mouse that got in my wall cavity?, that’s as far as it got (it came in through an external brick gap fir a pipe) and I think it must have died there as there is no way into the house (otherwise I would be worried about my plastic pipes).

Mine are vertical. Notice that hep20 do 15mm and 10mm manifolds Which fit together. The 22mm copper going vertical connects to the DHW cylinder.

Makes good reading, really interested in the vertical “thatch” panels made off site with local straw that clad the building. Other similar sites in the pipeline. Way to go!

I would be interested in their build method and insulation value etc etc.

Short length of 22mm copper either end and stout pipe clips https://www.screwfix.com/p/brass-munsen-ring-22mm-5-pack/3444j and https://www.screwfix.com/p/male-munsen-ring-backplate-m10-10-pack/6952j ?

I was once called out to a faulty cooker hood, customer wanted to replace it but we could not find an isolator, if we could not find it then I would have to fit one which meant hacking plaster off etc, customer had a fit then emptied every cupboard, isolator found further down the kitchen in the back of a cupboard rarely used .

And me, when the BCO told me to dig a soakaway I said “you mean a pond!” I then pointed out we are on heavy yellow clay and any hole I dig will simply fill with ground water and it will stay there. So he asked me what i proposed and I said pipe it into the ditch where it will end up anyway. The subject was never raised again even during the sign off.

Combined sewers are very prone to sewerage treatment plants being over run during heavy rain and effluent being allowed into rivers and the sea.