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Must admit not tried with the original HDD...will get back to you.

Dell Latitude CPt laptop bought as a backup / spare off of eBay for an existing one with some critical software on. EXACT same model. Done it before. Put HDD in from one you want to "clone", boot up and all's well. This time though. Starts OK But then: Have reseated everything; drives, memory etc. Any ideas?

Ordered my bricks. Collecting tonight. Reading @AnonymousBosch's comments ref dry mix elsewhere... I've probably 10 bags of cement a couple of years old. Wondering whether that with some ballast would be alright for infilling the pillars as I build them just to use it up.

Aren't there mixing issues with dry mix with one sort of cement mixer being better? Something to with "paddles"? Seem to recall this when discussing whether I went for screed or wet concrete for my floor.

It's a pity Anna didn't touch on renewables and the energy saving potential a self builder has. Together with the fact even self builders often overlook that. How many times have people said they wish they'd found Buildhub sooner so they could have avoided mistakes / improved their detailing.

Blame the OP I would!

I posted as I thought it might resonate with what some on here have said about making the move "North".

Thanks. If, with the controller removed and the base plate exposed I jump L to 3, will that fire up the boiler to give me a tank of hot water? The cylinder stat should then do it's thing and cut heating when the stat temperature is reached. It'll be a day or do for the new controller. Likewise can I jump L to 4 on both controller bases and get CH back controlled solely by the room stats? Cheers

2x2 ports & 1x3-port:

That should swell the ranks here: https://www.realhomes.com/news/a-million-plan-to-self-build-in-2020

But with my wiring plan I can have either CH, DHW or both so guessing that feature / SATISFIED wire is redundant?

Numpty question: Why is there a SATISFIED connection on a cylinder stat when there isn't on room stat? As I understand the room stat; clock calls for heat via terminal 4 on the controller and goes to COMMON on the room stat. If bi-metallic strip is closed then the stat DEMANDS heat, fires the boiler via the 3 port valve. Room heats up, bi-metallic strip in the room stat opens, no more DEMAND, boiler stops. So why the need for the SATISFIED connection on the cylinder stat? Why can't it just be a case of bi-metaĺlic strip opens when the cylinder reaches temperature and boiler stops? And why does it go back to 1 on the controller unless it's to do with the unused terminal 2, CH off? I must be not understanding something obvious, apologies! Thanks.

Thank you. Ordered. That other RW3 I pictured above, older model? Seemed simpler for SWMBO to use tbh.

Can I just jump a live to 3 to put HW on constant and have the cylinder stat control it?

Ta. I've found two models with that RW3 designation: &

Good shout. 2xCH + 1xHW. What's a good one?

A sh!t end to today! Supposed to be going out, wife had shower, I went for one and she informs me there's no hot water, "the heating's on all the time". I thought the place was uncomfortably warm today but didn't give it a second thought as in and out all day. I did on passing the downstairs stat turn it down from 30 to 25. Thought maybe she was drying washing on the radiators. The lower controller then that does downstairs CH and HW had really had it. Won't even work resetting it. This was the one I replaced the capacitor in. No problem I thought I'll swap them over and reprogram the one that did upstairs CH to do downstairs CH and HW. Didn't admittedly check whether that was working before I removed it. Couldn't make it up but that's now died as well! Won't reset same fault as the first. What are the chances??? Before I buy two of these is there a better alternative? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Grässlin-Temperature-Control-Switch-White/dp/B079TYWWP5 Cheers (Pumps leaking too one side just noticed when up in the loft. Where everything's been running flat out all day?).

Seems like it's taken all day just to fit a door switch...

Just don't buy Makita G series!

Add in double incontinence for the full experience!

Happened in my Mum's place. A diabetic with mixed dementia she'd been secretly eating KitKats and Battenberg in there and flushing the evidence to hide it. The Dyno man was well impressed. Has the OH got a sweet tooth?

You have to wonder at this in the face of common sense. Who benefits? What's the ulterior motive here? Is it simply that the UK Government is so scared by the potential take up of domestic renewables and losses to their coffers they're applying the brakes?

I was meaning for MCS installers. Genuine people like @binky where they've had to downsize, let staff or apprentices go on the back of the FiT rate cuts. Right or wrong it did spawn an industry just a pity there were so many cowboys.

I was wondering about that. So as panel prices fall could it be installers labour costs will become comparatively higher and the industry can remain buoyant?

Great sound bite: Climate crisis: Huge VAT rise on solar panels makes installation ‘entirely uneconomic’, say experts https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change-solar-panels-vat-government-fossil-fuels-sian-berry-a8906361.html