dpmiller

any chance of a photo with a wider view for some context? That looks a bit like a suppression capacitor to me...

Pics 4& 5 is that actually mud, or have you teed him off enough that he's washed out the mixer into it?

Ive just got a gravity flap (with rubber seals) in the pipe up from the hood and it seals fine but can occasionally rattle in strong winds from a certain direction. I really only use the extractor when frying/ stirfrying as generally the MVHR deals with a wee bit of steam fine. I've considered adding either a motorised damper or a Thermobox but have never got any farther than that The MVHR is set up for slight positive pressure as there's a woodstove at the other end of the house. Only if the cooker hood is turned right up to boost does it actually attempt to depressureise the house, on all other speeds the extra air just freewheels the MVHR's supply fan as far as I can tell

purists be damned, I just extract for the short period that the wok is a-smokin.

Is that actuator being energised? Is it actually opening?

how/ why? Considering very few have an earth wire...

you might need a trap if there are LPG cylinders in the locality

are you on a pole transformer? Shared?

do you have cavity trays and weep vents?

there's no regulations per se, but the stove manufacturer will likely have a spec for diameter, maximum length and number of bends. It needs to terminate at the stove to attach to the spigot on it, and the section nearest the stove would need to be suitably heat-resistant (like any other items in the same area). It can take air from anywhere outside really but you need to consider water ingress and the likelyhood of obstruction/ blockage.

If the unit has a door, would a different colour of shelf really be that offensive? If no door, could you find a contrasting colour?

would it not work better if the blocks were lifted and the middle beam in the photo moved leftwards so the "landscape" blocks were to the right of it?

buffering through a gravity cylinder? I wouldn't, even just gravity DHW would be enough to put me off... I did it the other way round as a TS to give boiler stove redundancy. No legionells risk either as no stored volume. Check out for example- https://copperindustries.co.uk/products/maxipod/ although many other manufacturers can offer the same now too. I had a bespoke one made up by World Heat

would the two capped-off valves that just need a flexi fitted between them not be a good start?

need to slacken the right nut to let the fitting rotate, tighten the brass fitting, then nip the nut up again

that awkward age between 0 and grownup, lol. 17, first year of the A-levels. ADD with history of getting bored with stuff quickly so sensible budget, say £200-ish.

yep a few of his mates have them already so he's not starting from zero. I think he's more interested in the IT side than actually printing too many things, going from design through CAD and into slicing etc. So is the open/ closed source thing an issue re. Bambu?

jumping on in here. I know nothing of this stuff, but big son is making noises about wanting one and Christmas is coming. He's doing ICT, Technology, and Engineering at A-level and is pretty handy with CAD. What's good and entry-ish level these days?

the constructional hearth is not the finished visible surface.

Are the flow and return from the boiler the right way round at the valve?

I've never seen a trench block...

Yep i got a set of forks for our 2.7t machine. Darned handy but awkward to use, and on a smaller machine the weight of the forks does eat into the lifting capacity a bit. / the brickies thought it was great for getting the blocks up a lift of scaff...

self-tapping and self-drilling are two different things...

what about cold rolled steel sections rather than timber?

shame you weren't close enough to this family member to have helped her earlier?