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Bugger! My kitchen is 1 step HIGHER than the next room. Something else I think about / worry over.

All things considered you have an extension! ? I'm truly amazed the BCO didn't kick off about Part M and level access on both floors though.

Upstairs ensuite basin off this tank yes, only for the past 20 years though... ? New bathroom basin is cold mains. I will jump the ensuite into that at some time but the old copper is a bit green and badly supported so a bit hesitant on mains. I'd rather replace it all. WHEN I do the ensuite!

Morning, if I can just start by saying I have never, ever in nearly 20 years looked inside either our header or cold water storage tanks before. Never had to change a ball valve washer etc. That's not to say I've not had the odd drip from the two overflow pipes in the soffit. On one occasion I had HOT water pouring out. When it drips I just get my hand in over the top, knock of some of the crud/scale and operate the valve up and down a bit. Main reason is that I can't get up there. The tanks sit on a pallet wood platform, on 4x2s nailed across the apex of the roof rafters (cut roof btw). It couldn't get any tighter up there. It's also all a bit "barely there". Access is such that I can't get my shoulders up through the maze of pipework to look in. Maybe I could contort myself if I had a stable platform to work from. As it is there's some pieces of loose, crumbly t&g chipboard flooring laid up there. It's also right at the point where the kitchen ceiling, at two levels, meets the lounge ceiling at another level. Joists in different directions and different heights. If I came off the ladder and grabbed at the tank platform I reckon I could bring the lot down! However, last night the youngest was complaining of "something" scratching above her bedroom ceiling within the flat dormer roof. Precariously balancing on a wooden step ladder (it came with the loft ? ), I got as high as I could to chuck some rat poison satchets above the dormer. I had my phone with me so at arms length, poked it over the top of both tanks (no lids btw). What's interesting is the header appears full of rust in the bottom. I'm thinking that's an indication of just how dirty my CH system is and that on occasion I've had a pump over event likely due to the 3-port valve being faulty as it was. Sound about right? Probably compromised by crud, leading to it's demise. Header: CWS Tank:

The wall around a big, posh place near me. Just the black faces showing:

She didn't like it so we compromised and got what she wanted.

I was banned from getting this Vado Summit bath filler ?

The site is in $, do I just order and pay via credit card / PayPal etc? Thanks https://www.anycubic.com/collections/3d-printers

Plenty of dual row, 36 way consumer units.

@Barney12, do I recall you digging and laying pipes for a GSHP? Did it ever progress to connecting the loop to anything? Apologies if it wasn't you. (I'd dig one if I had a digger as I've got the land. For no other reason than to get out of the house, make a mess and pi$$ SWMBO off (even more). Win, win, win afaic! ? )

Only experienced it with concrete floors I've laid. I always wire brush and hoover them before applying floor paint etc. Only ever used slc once and that was a disaster tbh. Went level but all crazed soon thereafter. First house kitchen that was, only about 8'x6'. From memory I think I might have painted the floor with a liquid dpm then tried putting the slc over that. Any concrete I lay now is mm perfect so no worries! ?

Only 40p per module: PRICES 2019 - JULY (1).pdf

You mean the brown or white round things where you drill a 70mm / 3" hole? There were none here when we moved in but I found boxes of them in the stable. I felt a pillock when I went round with a 70mm Starrett then found they were 3". Still got one elevation to do... I reckon here they come in through gaps in the footing bricks and up the cavity. Also through the crap detailing around the dormer cheeks.

The 2010 version I have here has even more pages if you want that? ? Type 4 is indeed an old school circuit breaker designation rated at 50 x In. There were Type 4 rcbos made by Square D I remember.

Living in a money pit I wish I knew then what I know now. Knock down / rebuild without a doubt. Renovating here consists of first removing the old, badly done, then sometimes you have to compromise and workaround. If nothing else the time doubles at least.

A bit of bedtime reading for anyone interested: THE RCD HANDBOOK - GUIDE TO THE SELECTION AND APPLICATION OF RESIDUAL CURRENT DEVICES.pdf

In my situation it was. In effect portable equipment with trailing leads vulnerable to damage. A short term solution proposed by one site's insurer was to fit 100mA rcd and a totally non standard mains plug socket arrangement on the basis that only the controlled kit with the inverter issue could be plugged in and that was used by trained operatives. Didn't help ref the trailing lead issue but they convinced themselves it went some way to solving the issue. All fixed long since with 30mA Si units and back to normal plugs & sockets.

You might find the manufactures say don't fit an rcd just to save themselves problems and comeback from their customers. I've a longstanding relationship with a major inverter / motor manufacturer. Back when we were experiencing a +25% tripping rate, on start up, of installed machines I took them to task. Their initial, ludicrous suggestion was to either fit 100mA RCDs or ones without EMF suppression. I persevered digging and asking and found the Schneider units did the trick. In a quirky twist about 2 years later this major manufacturer came onto me, in writing, to ask if I'd ever solved the problem. Other companies were turning away from them and fitting other drive makes because of it. Somewhat peeved I rang them and found they had just supplied 200 inverters to one customer who built pay kiddie rides as seen in shopping centres everywhere. The breakdown rate through nuisance tripping was ridiculous. I put them onto Schneider and the rest is history. Handy as whenever I need free help I remind them of this.

Some inverters can cause nuisance tripping of devices containing RCDs. It can be to do with leakage currents associated with EMF suppression in the inverter. You can get drives without EMF suppression but from memory these can't be CE marked. Schneider do their Si RCDs (that aren't time delayed) and in my experience solve the issue completely. Of course some inverter brands cause less trouble than others! si RCD.pdf

Wasn't there an off topic topic recently removed from that section specifically for being "not building related"? I thought that was a bit odd and over zealous.

Trouble is that you still see that they've posted but that you have chosen to ignore them and then you let yourself get dragged back in! ?

SWMBO used to periodically paint the gas box at our old place with good old black gloss paint. Bedec Barn Paint is supposed to be good on plastic. Think it has some mild etching properties.

I'm doing that but this thick walled stuff is a bugger to get around the formed bend I'm finding.

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The FMG run the forum. I have no wish to get involved in that side of things. I've neither the skills or time, education (or ego maybe ? ) to do so. Some might argue over the formation process of the forum i.e by a select group but isn't that the democratic right of a group of like minded individuals? It is always, unavoidably, going to have their "stamp" on it. No different to how UK plc has been run by public school educated old boys as a feted democracy. Control is needed or you have anarchy. Try the Screwfix forum if you care to see loudmouthed dominant voices and pure nastiness. To suggest I'm being a good little boy: I've had early on, firey exchanges with members of the FMG. Relationships, virtual or otherwise take time to form. New blood can sometimes upset that balance. Only in the last week or so I've had a pm warning from the FMG over my perceived conduct on a thread. Actually I thought they were in the wrong and contributors to that thread have gone on, in my opinion, to stir the pot more with the thread's OP than anything I said. I have gone back at them btw but in private and not publicly which I feel would have been detrimental to the forum. Have a think and the FMG too (I'm sure they are/will) about what this sort of exchange on someone's thread does for the forum's image. Apologies @Roz, I'm sure you weren't expecting this! Time I think to tidy this thread and get back to the subject. Besides most of my 12,000 posts were shameful attempts at lewd humour, asking the same question 3 times or trying to understand the answers. Then there were the posts apologising for not having done "it" how was suggested and asking how to rectify it! ? I'm happy btw to plagiarise and stand on the shoulders of giants. I've seen the results of some of the builds and can only aspire to such! C'mon, its Christmas!