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Onoff

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  1. Actually the randomness of those pockets works! ? Coming together nicely...
  2. Just saying...
  3. Is it a cold fill only machine? The heating element will take many amps. Any option to hot fill to remove the heating load?
  4. Gennie just isn't man enough to cope with the start up load is a possibility. As in it takes more current to start than when it's running.
  5. Sorry, you're right. The blue comes from the plant, into that chamber, then onto the leach field as @PeterW suggested in the brown. So it shouldn't be able to leak at that chamber I guess.
  6. It'll potentially leach into the soil around that chamber rather than going to the treatment plant as it should I imagine.
  7. Apologies, you said internal at the start & I missed it! I really like the look in that glossy black.
  8. You're wanting an external / front door I'm thinking? If internal I'd be sawing up some MDF & firing up the router. Thereafter off to the powder coaters.
  9. I have an 1865 terraced cottage. Suspended wooden floors, lime/horse hair plastered walls, solid brick walls with no cavity. When I bought it in the early 90s the first thing I did was fit uPVC windows WITHOUT trickle vents & add central heating. The plastering is very thick so to build it up I shot down to Wickes and bought browning or bonding, can't remember which! I cleared the air bricks front and rear. The house is only 12' wide. Looking at the front of the house, on the RHS, where there's front to back air flow, there's no damp issues. On the LHS however there's an internal corner that I guess is dead air and gets no cross ventilation. Similarly an area by the front door and a patch low down on the party wall midway between front door and problem internal corner. Where I replastered in modern materials the whole area of the "dead air" corner, about 1m in dia is hollow and damp to this day. In that area I spent a fortune and tried the Wickes, liquid injectable damp proof system, popular in the day. It didn't work! The one area that seems intact is the midway point on the party wall where I painted the bricks with the expensive, WATERPROOF PVA (the black can not red back then) and then sand cement rendered adding a 5:1 same "black" PVA mix instead of plain water. I do wonder tba whether my neighbour at that point has damp his side? Looking back the problem is simple. Lack of ventilation & wrong repair materials used.
  10. Same house? https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/celebs-tv/sarah-beeny-new-life-country-4735307
  11. Too right. Anyone can haphazardly chuck a bit of plastic in and cover it up ?
  12. Small cable tie etc. I've slipped mine inside the pipe lagging before.
  13. Are those roof timbers wet?
  14. If up in the loft you should be able to push the insulation aside and see the vapour barrier atop the plasterboard. This is the concept the green membrane atop the plasterboard. Viewed from up in the loft where there's no insulation you see the green vcl that's above the plasterboard. Tbh I've punctured my vcl in so many places with speakers and lights etc I need to make good.
  15. A few on here have used similar from eBay, Amazon etc. You'll get those quicker than on Banggood.
  16. A few of these at pertinent points around the system can be useful. Loads similar on eBay, Amazon etc: [£10.44]10Pcs 1M Thermometer Electronic Digital Display FY10 Embedded Thermometer Indoor and Outdoor Temperature Measurement Module Board from Electronic Components & Supplies on banggood https://banggood.app.link/1a2g5lGkKcb
  17. What about the way @zoothorn did his? Half a dozen, large dia (barrel sized) concrete plinths. Wooden frame bolted to that. Doesn't take much skill to dig holes, just time.
  18. Is it meant to be all different colours? What an appalling mish-mash of "styles" though there's nothing stylish about it. Looks like they took the scaffolding down before it was rendered.
  19. No chance, she's had 4 kids.
  20. Wouldn't a continuous bead of wood glue have achieved the same (better even), air tightness as the tape? Ref inspection windows, I've salvaged a number of non functioning, Enlite flat panel LEDs from the bin at work. They strip down to leave a nice, insertable (157mm cut out) bezel. Made from a light, white painted alloy, they'd sit nice in a cabinet with a bead of silicone. I think the diffuser is too opaque to see through for condensation so another acrylic/polycarbonate disc would be needed (it might polish up clear with compound). Just ever more crap I've collected but you're welcome to a couple or more. Originally got for my lad's 3D printer enclosure until we went with full glass sides. (Of course 3D printing inspection window bezels is an option):
  21. These? [£5.97 27% OFF]10pcs RC-33 Wired Door Window Sensor Magnetic Switch for Home Alarm System Security & Surveillance from Security & Protection on banggood https://banggood.app.link/VsgsXSZZHcb
  22. Don't you just produce Gantt charts, have a meeting to discuss progress, then change them to suit...then have another meeting? ?
  23. Could it be... The brown soil pipe is waste coming from the house. It goes down in that chamber then onto the septic tank. The blue comes in (from the ASHP?) and should really drain into the brown but stops short. The black chamber is just for access. Pure speculation.
  24. ASHP drain? Is that the ASHP alongside the house?
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