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3 years in, are you still using/specifying these @nod , was just out on the internet looking for ways to make my plasterers life a bit easier and stumbled on these... So, waste of money, or would the plaster appreciate.

Love the smilies in the backboxes... Can I ask how you cut, and set the backboxes in the blocks, I'm about to embark on this and am looking at various methods, while I pluck up the courage to go for it!

Belt and braces, I’d tape it too, or event give it a good couple of coats of soudatight paint.

I use these nozzles, good for tight spots. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/256270021355?_nkw=expanding+foam+gun+nozzles&itmmeta=01J5JV75ZS7DY2NK1HP7VC2AZM&hash=item3baae232eb:g:ULgAAOSwcyNlMD77&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAA8HoV3kP08IDx%2BKZ9MfhVJKk%2Brqx7%2Bbsuyp7ejiKYKTnebIP9W39Ke6NzjORcTdOnidiG%2FO2v%2FljpnR2lybJ7icSHncP3PxeeJdQ1ppIb6Q79DTtVzxTLDT4xOLNcesZRyjj3KhpHn40hGTfyZKF1CBUBWbXUL%2BtkWFMhmEEBEVJBlNoGU0rH0wVXonGlzWhN22qmWnQDF1QHT4yGLbNshL%2B666a5jRYv%2B7FKi9cZPbpKh6HIzTyb%2FpQrgivfnzh0I95r83q0tTOCoJ3g6f9tSXIPMufGl7oBkGp0nVYf%2B27%2FTVxbMQd08y171g1GIuFt7Q%3D%3D|tkp%3ABFBM-t-c26xk

Echo this, 20 of amazons finest, I keep the worn ones for plasterboard, and cutting into blockwork.

Any reason why the wall couldnt be blockwork, add a micro cement finish to imitate the concrete?

Actually I could use a 2 channel unit, rather than separate units. That could simplify matters.

Confused... Trying to plan the backbox layout in one of my cupboards for my bathroom UFH and towel rail controls, and sort the first fix electrics for the spark at the location (as in pull in the required qty and type of cable). to date I've run a length of 2.5 t+e to the location from the CU. I want a separate control device for each. Looking at the installation docs for UFH mat, I need an FCU too. So that's 3 backboxes. Do I need to plan in an FCU for the towel rail too? Making 4? So then does that mean I need 2 cables from the CU, one for each? In practice how's this scenario normally dealt with?

Ta, i’ve put some ducting in and run a sensor to each of the bathrooms. If the time ever comes I ought be able to pull it through with a new wire attached… I only needed a couple of small mats so heating load wont be too much, and as it happens I’ve gone for a 150 in the highly insulated room, and 200 in the other one, but thats only because the vendor has run out of the 150 the mats in the m2 I wanted…

Hi All, couple of quick q's, Is warmstar still the go to as far as tried and tested UFH mats is concerned please? For installing in a bathroom, onto xps board over caberdeck, how would I determine what Wattage p/m2 to go for? Tiles or LVT will be the final floor finish.

Site insurance - just in the process of renewing mine for another 24 months... 1200 ish. hoping to be finished in 12 (he says) but it's useful to have for hired in equipment. Values vary on reinstatement costs, public liability amount, how much for your own tools, site huts etc.

Exactly what we stated on our replacement dwelling, BCO not particularly bothered, only that it was required distance from property. If I was staying in the bungalow and swapping out the septic tank, I'd just crack on and do it.

oh, ok, that'd make life a bit easier. Ta.

Hi All, My plan is to install pre hung doors after plaster and mist coat. I'm just starting to put the odd sheet or two of plasterboard on walls. Would putting in temporary door linings be a reasonable idea? It's a small'ish cost (£20 ea or so from the BM) that I can deal with (11 doorways) to help with plasterboarding and then for the skim coat round doorways?

If you already have the PIR on site, then as you say, it’s the condensation risk that’s the key. However…. If you come to sell the PIR you may turn a good profit on FB marketplace, I did when I over ordered and sold off a couple of sheets individually, Joe Public don’t use merchants and are very used to wickes/B&Q pricing I found.

I’m another that wouldn’t put batteries inside a dwelling, likewise an electric car in a garage attached to a dwelling. The fear of batteries combusting have got to me I’m afraid. For what it’s worth, my plant room is a cupboard… 1.2m * 1.5m. Just houses a cylinder, plumbing distribution manifolds and controllers for poo tank, Ashp and solar on a wall, it’s a compromise on size, but works. MVHR is in the loft as that was the best location logistically for routing the pipe work to where it needed to be, with the supply and extract at each corner of a gable. UFH manifolds are under stairs in a pretty central location.

I don’t have the words to ease the wallet pain, however you’ve now got a really good excuse for the house not finished thread…. Someone else will need to bring the biscuits and cakes for now though.

if your soil pipes run perpendicular to the joists work out the maximum length of soil pipe into your equation as you’ll need to account for fall.

Both, probably! your router will only have a small number of switchports. To put it as simply as possible, at one end of the cat6 you’ll have your endpoints (tv, Xbox, etc etc) at the other end in your comms cabinet you’d commonly have a patch panel, from this panel you’ll use patch leads into a multiport switch, you’d connect the switch to your 4g/5g router. It’s possible to do without the patch panel and crimp rj45 plugs and connect these straight to the switch, but it’s not something that I’d do…

Was of the understanding the flexi hoses are for vibration damping, and the softening transmission of the fan noise through the rigid copper. I could be completely wrong though. 🤔

origin do some Ally ones. Must admit I do like the look of metal frame doors without timber door casings and architraves.

always thought screws were the way, maybe a screw with course threads...

would it be some kind of flow regulator?

@Dave Jones is your dongle one of these --> Meet the Octopus Home Mini | Octopus Energy

I've got the SO4CG, it's a reasonable bit of kit for the money. Aftersales/service sorted me out a warranty replacement when I dropped it and it went out of whack...