dpmiller

BPC have started selling them so they must be OK. Rotary is normally used in big commercial units

sounds like a plan. Greengraves/ Millmount has changed so much since I was a nipper scrambling on the Barley Fields.

They'll deliver... Whereabouts are you? I grew up in Ferndene (off the Comber Road) and dad's still there...

I've been well impressed with our keylite polars, easy to get down from Cookstown.

ours is *much* quieter than that.

I was given the same advice by the meter bod, wouldn't connect until there was a commando socket but refused to aknowledge the need for protection on it...

we went with one of these https://www.tanksforeverything.co.uk/solido-smart-6-person-sewage-treatment-plant-917500 as it was supported locally, and didn't need to deep a hole (we're clay over rock mostly). The tank is very sturdy and the blower/pump very quiet. Pump doesn't run continuously either. Time will tell how it performs but no issues with it's discharge spec for our application which encroaches on an ASSI.

yep, a whole row of them.

yes, two sockets under a flip-up cover at the back

A friend of mine got one of those recently, she's never had a landline to her house. I've just had it on loan down at the site to check the signal (EE is pants there) for a few days and I'm mightily impressed. Download speed isn't incredible but even without an external antenna it holds onto the signal well.

Isn't that what the tertiary air on fancier stoves is for?

I think @PeterW is wondering whether the flow and return are switched at the TMV (or, the flow is backwards in the supply loop). You pretty much have to push the heated water into the valve from my experience...

the backs come off easily- bottom should be a velcro'd flap and in behind there'll be a bolt or clip each side that retains the back in a tapered dovetail. undo, pull up. done.

Wasn't there. no car in the drive and the gate's closed.

Spotted this a few weeks back- we now exist!

Tongue slightly in cheek there, Ian. But I do prefer the extra barbed doodahs of the more modern plugs.

Standard sized cheapo British plugs are coloured, efficient European ones tend to be plain grey. Cf Fischer, Lidl etc.

tee it into A or B

If you don't want wobble, fit a Tap Brace- either the plastic Franke doodah or one of the bigger brackets...

^ what we've got.

Password lets me view the menus but not alter, so Graeme is goiing to pop down and reset things for me. Here's the gubbins, as I was installing the air inlet hose earlier:

Treatment plant wired in and running. Just the air inlet pipe to sort for the pump (I'm extending it so it's little stack is in the hedgeline rather than in thee middle of a lawn) but it's working. Very quiet. The Hiblow pump sits inside a sealed "bucket"- a screw-top vessel as used for storage on boats or that Sigma chemicals are supplied in- and this sits in the middle of the "manhole" atop the airlift pipe. So well isolated from the outside world. At power-on it did a 30-min airlift discharge cycle which does have a distinct trickling water sound and then settled into it's programmed bubble/ settle sequence. The bubble portion is 14mins, not quite sure what the settle is yet. From the manual this means it's set default as 8PE. When bubbling there's no noise whatsoever and the body of water heaves with a remarkable turbulence but no visible bubbles. I darned-near had to rest my ear on the closed manhole lid to hear the hum of the pump. It's double skinned poly which helps too no doubt. I've found a passord online to try on the controller. If it works I'll play with the menus a bit and reset down to about 5PE (there'll generally only be three of us in the house) If it doesn't I'll get the rep to pop in and do it, he lives locally. Piccies to follow.

More progress today, more milestones. Paul was down bright and early (freezing!) and by the time I called down for the morning update he'd cut a fine-looking trench out the front to let the front downspouts and future ACO run straight out to the open field drain. ...which dealt nicely with the weekend's problem. The trench dug for the mains water drained into it. We then brought the water into the house, dropping from the long 32mm down the lane to a 25mm at a toby, so we've local isolation. Sent me up the lane to turn off, and them promptly made the joint live before I had a chance to even get the screwdriver out of the car. Phone line is in alongside it. For completeness, here's the rear and right rainwater drainage, with a rare sight on Sandy, in the trench, trying not to lose her wellies to the clay. All the foul works sit on top of this pretty much so we'll need a few loads of rubble now to build levels up past them. No piccies of the foul yet, must do that for my records. And the final result? Loo flushes, and Chinesium hot-water tap works. Bought on a whim but it's actually a pretty smart item. I stripped and checked it for all the usual Chinese failings. Metal clad element, earth wire connected to it, overtemp and underpressure control. Super. Just need to pull the SWA out to the treatment plant and get it commissioned now.

@Declan52 they sell and deliver direct then?

the "off" unit would need it's ducts sealing off too...