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  1. Onoff
    Can I ask why you think that? I like the idea of turning the shower on without getting your arm/head wet. Come on, your on a roll (with your pipe stat thing ) is there merit in a 15mm solenoid valve simply operated by a switch? Throw the switch and a TMV set shower. Not sure how you'd vary the temp thereafter..... (I am on the beer trying to kill this toothache).
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    Yep, nothing like a bit of 1st and 3rd angle projection, isometric, 30 and 45deg oblique! All done on a board where you can't see the construction lines at arms length. Wonderful grounding for CAD!
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    So this is going on the "hot" to the bathroom. Where's that hot coming from? Thinking I might pilfer the idea to switch my mirror demister. I've got two "hots". The dedicated feed from the shower pump then one from the cylinder that splits to feed bath and basin. Almost wants two set ups I'm thinking.
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    UFH

    Onoff replied to nod's topic in Underfloor Heating

    My bathroom loop; I just sucked the water out with a wet vac after testing (left for months at 3bar) and taped the ends up.
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    Thought you were putting a bit of copper in.....or was that next time?
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    For a faster response time, could you; drill out a 15/22mm copper reducer (with a 15mm drill) so it slides along the 15mm pipe. Solder it in position and slip the probe end in the gap? You'd be almost "cowling" the probe and keeping the heat "in".
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    Just hope it all works!
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    I grew up creating fix lists for others to follow when they get to site. Doesn't always work out. I'd mark a bag "M10x40 - For castors". Another bag would say "M10x70 - For rail spacers". Zip lock bag written on in thick black marker. Next thing I'd have the bloke moaning and bad mouthing me that the castor bolts were too long and the rail ones to short! I used to say in the days when you could smoke on site, "Sit down, lay the stuff out, have a fag and READ my lists!". It was worse when transitioning from imperial to metric. They wouldn't check but just say they needed some more 5/8" nuts and it would turn out they were in fact M16. Same with 25mm and 1" bore wheels. Bought them all verniers but they only stirred their tea with them! PPPPPP!
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    CAD is the way to go. My chippy mate makes everything up on the fly and gets away with it cos he's pretty damn good and experienced (and an old git ). When he works with me on anything I've CAD'ed up he's always impressed how it all fits together as per design.....even though it's taken an age to get there! I've tried teaching him CAD but he's a Luddite, it's like feeding caviar to pigs!
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    Result! So it's deffo NTC and behaving as per the book: https://learn.adafruit.com/thermistor/testing-a-thermistor Don't forget you need to mount that Cebec module in something. 1G surface mount box? Grommets or small glands for in / out?
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    @Nickfromwales, cheers for that. Seem to half remember about the self drill screws from somewhere (earlier in this thread?) I was thinking these 4x38s? A reviewer called "Fannymagnet" who fixed his "9mm ply to galv studs with ease" rates them! http://www.screwfix.com/p/easydrive-carbon-steel-self-drilling-roofing-screws-4-8-x-38mm-200-pack/2688h Just got to hunt down a larger bit of 9mm ply, now I've got over the not needing marine ply hump. Once the packing strips / sheet are on I could Thompson's Water Seal the face maybe? Just in case the tiles/tanking/mrpb/Aquapanel fails. I'm presuming to just screw the MR pb on. The same with the Aquapanel (got the special Knauf screws) or should that have a line of Sika or something? Ta.
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    There's that many I could! (But I won't be )
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    I think from memory the last two pictures in my little guide are out of sync. I meant to correct it.....but you know me!
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    Worth a butchers on eBay searching for "10k ntc thermistor". Lots of cheap ones on there in various styles; loose, with leads, tags, screw terminals etc. Thinking you might be able to make a few up for next time.
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    For me it was Filmers in Dartford. Also Garlands in Deptford where I bought the complete resistor range (with money earned digging footings) & Stevensons in Bromley where I bought my first soldering iron (S R Brewster make?). Maplins was mail order only for me but a bit later I'd occasionally go to their (only?) Southend store. Back then you could buy ferrite rod, Jackson variable capacitors and Denco coils.
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    Those kids next door would have a long drop if they over bounce on that trampoline!
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    Was it really April I last posted here? Last left that I needed to pack out the fronts of one section of stud wall to clear the soil pipe. I was thinking MARINE ply but baulking at the cost. Serendipity came a calling today in the form of a stack of 8' long, 9mm ply strips. A cancelled order or something at the local wood yard. Just over the 100mm wide I can get two strips out of each or one where I've doubled up on the studs: I don't know what grade ply it is but looking at the edge seems pretty solid with no great gaps if any at all tbh: The "free" element of all this has made me think that these'll be fine as long as everything is tanked? Some areas have MR plasterboard going over and others Aquapanel. I don't really want to move the Geberit frame now its in but of course it'll now be nom 9mm below the face of the ply strips. I was thinking that where I've got a stud and the Gebeit frame I could use a wider bit of this ply as shown below, affixed to the stud and simply packed out with Sikabond or similar where it sits over the Geberit frame? And what about the horizontal bits of the Geberit frame, can I just "glue" ply strips on, Sika again? I've a few tubes of generic "No Nails" kicking around. As to fixing the ply to the studs, a line of glue then the air brad nailer was my first choice but my mates got my brad nailer. I can get it back easy enough but if not then any old screws knocking about I'm thinking?
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    Too late I know but I emailed Swansea hackspace: https://swansea.hackspace.org.uk/ Justin Mitchell from there came back earlier but I've only just read it: "The hackspace does have a small stock of generic bead thermistors, I cannot remember exactly which kind they are but 10k ntc sounds plausible. You are welcome to drop in and check, there is a workshop on today 12-4ish and there is our usual open evening monday 7pm onwards. Tom whitehouse electrical/spares store in swansea market -might- have something, he has an odd selection of stuff. many tumble driers and other home goods use ntc thermistors, so you might get one from a spare parts supplier but they may not know what rating it is. next best urgency is to buy from cpc online as they will next-day you stuff and their minimum order is £5" Worth knowing for the future. Bet there's a whole new bunch of neeks, nerds, gerds & blerds there that could assist on your madcap ideas! In fact there's one in most towns.
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    So what are you going with now? The kit I linked and a UFH probe? I wonder if a Tenby would do as a clip? For repeats of this again I wonder if Ezybond clips would be nice and quick? I've them in 15 & 22, could send you a few. Thinking the UFH probe might be about the same dia as a stripped bond?
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    Would a good wrap of amalgamating tape not be better to attach the sensor? After all, used often enough on hoses under the bonnet. Or...cable tie it and wrap in foil tape?
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    Give a kid pure fruit juice and you might as well give them sweets for the sugar rush they'll get and damage to their teeth it'll do. Smoothies are better for you but still not as good as eating the fruit. Your body's the machine that's supposed to break it down...slowly. A lot of tiredness is down to dehydration. Drink more water. If nothing else it'll keep you moving as you'll need to keep going to the loo. OD on the dairy? No thanks. Think what "milk" is for. It's to make baby animals grow. There's a school of thought that the "growth" compounds might lead to those runaway growth diseases like the big C. A young lad at work in his early 20's, skinny little streak of nothing started body building taking creatine. You get in meat. You eat meat to build muscle etc. There's suggestions it can increase the risk of testicular cancer. To my knowledge he didn't get that. He did however develop a Stage 3 solid mass cancer in his arm! Makes you wonder.
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    A lot of people where I am have woodburners. We frequently see garden clearance type stuff fly tipped in the lay bys down here. It always amazes me the amount of timber dumped. Often loads of old, well seasoned fence panels. The other day somebody had been through one of the roadside piles and taken all the wood!
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    I like bananas but they dont like me! Same with mature cheese. Both have tyramine in that's a headache trigger if you're sensitive! Alcohol too which might explain why nowadays, the morning after even having one I might get a headache. Bananas and ice cream! 5 minutes of pleasure to get brain freeze AND a headache! EDIT: Walnuts from Lidls.
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    Go to our tip and anything that looks half reasonable gets "put to one side" with a helpful "Ere, I'll take that for you mate!" Behind the metal bin is a bench with a vice on it even. Taking a load of scrap metal down there which included quite a lot of 3, 4 & 5 core rubber flex and I was directed to put the cable in an out of the way, unmarked skip behind the huge metal bin.
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    Pretty sure this lack of "gumption" with me at the mo is weight / diet related. First house, about 4 stone ago, I never stopped! For the last 3 days just had a handful of walnuts and an apple for breakfast just before 5am then nothing until 3pm except copious quantities of water and a couple of teas. Did x4 2L bottles of water up and down on the roof. The best bit of that in this heat because your so hydrated you can just enjoy the heat. No word of a lie it's been fine though too busy to think about grub. Get home around half three 'ish and had a beetroot and more nuts. Normal dinner and half a glass of red, no ale. I'd urge anyone to try the walnuts & apple thing. 16st 11lbs last Sunday 16st 7lbs yesterday. 15st is the goal! Last night got an Indian takeaway but only had half of it and stuck the rest in the fridge. Half a Kingfisher in lieu of the red. Managed one evening to make a tentative re-start on sorting the side of the house where I laid the new water main and soil pipes. Feel pretty good this morning. Often used to get a g'teed Sat morning headache from junk food overload during the week. Might go and figure some levels!
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