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  1. dpmiller
    just think of it as a supercharged 2-stroke and it's all good.
  2. dpmiller
    the loop doesn't "get" any cold. The loop/ loops just circulate, the blending valve opens to let sips of hot in and this pushes the cold out, back into your return pipe...
  3. dpmiller
    blending valve?
  4. dpmiller
    Things always seem different this side of the pond. Sure, our house was a pretty standard footprint, but my advice was to let the BCO be happy with the works "on the ground". Admittedly we did dig four test pits on the site pre-purchase so maybe that's the de-risking, but also I know that our neighbours went from scraping off topsoil to find stone at one end of their founds, to going down 16' and the BCO telling them to give up at that point and fill it all in with concrete... Now things are a bit different here because we ONLY have Council BCOs, but they do seem to know their own patch. We did a standard blockwork dig- down to firm ground and then pour 12"+ to level, add mesh where the BCO queried the base of the dig. Not terribly excessive and no expense in consultants.
  5. dpmiller
    why not use a standard detail for the footings and let the BCO agree to it?
  6. dpmiller
    my frame squad had one. The only hangers used were to trim round the roof windows but the PPN came out of the van for it...
  7. dpmiller
    for stapling what exactly? A hammer tacker is a very handy bit of kit for the various external membranes.
  8. dpmiller
    if there is no need for one currently why would you have to?
  9. dpmiller
    Absolutely, Declan. No chance of putting a man-basket on for sure... I've got a copy of the load curve for mine (it's at the back of the manual) so I'm well aware of what she's capable of and testing confirms that if it's too much, it just aint getting off the ground. If that means we're only raising one sill at a time to the top lift, so be it. Still easier than doing it by hand/ cheaper than hiring in a telehandler for the day/ faster than waiting for the tame farmer to arrive with his.
  10. dpmiller
    I'd counter that by saying two-speed tracking makes things a lot more rapid and that even on a small-ish machine like mine, pallet forks are a godsend. We had a delivery yesterday of solar panels, and they came upright on a pallet, 6 leaned against 6 and the digger was able to reach right into the side door of the van and ease the pallet out even with only an inch or two of clearance to the door frame above. Quick and easy-ish.
  11. dpmiller
    How are the current ones fitted- are they IN the cavity?
  12. dpmiller
    Visited the guys up at BPC today to collect a couple of bits of duct that we were in a rush for. Great bunch of fellas, nice to meet them and see round the shop. Heading home after that and the phone rang- delivery from Plugin Solar. Wow, that was pretty fast to get a couple of pallet loads over safely. Panels and tray all look super and thankfully the digger was able to fork them out of the side of the Sprinter they arrived in.
  13. dpmiller
    so from the meter board in is more than the DNOs 3m limit and it'll need a type S 100mA on it to protect the cable. No reason then not to bring the cable into a small CU in/ for the garage and then out of it again into the house, I'd think. But let's wait for @ProDave to give his trusted view.
  14. dpmiller
    where's the meter?
  15. dpmiller
    Dreams are sold as a kinda "boiler replacement" unit so likely just the one temperature.
  16. dpmiller
    Other than the chimneys, the blockwork is DONE! Goodies are trickling in- UFH manifolds are here, and a lovely Compact RCBO CU from SBS arrived thismorning. I've chased NIE for a requote on the electric connection and it'll be here imminently. Anybody got a spare 15m of 25mm split concentric kicking around for my submain? No word on a timescale for the insulation squad to descend- the apparent shortage of glass- and mineral- fibre insulation currently is holding things up. Ah well, it'll give us a chance to get some tiles on.
  17. dpmiller
    Ta. Yes, I'm well pleased with it. Colour, glazing etc was a joint decision with SWMBO, and the door itself is a bog-standard Apeer composite unit. Even tho the rest of the house has anthracite frames on the outside, I reckoned on the white frame for this as the porch is going to have Z-stone on it and I thought the grey stone and black door needed something to break it up.
  18. dpmiller
    Windows and doors are complete, finally. And very pretty they are too, another piece in the puzzle. Tiles etc arrived on Monday and the Solar kit should be here at the start of the week so then it'll be time to practice the batten-walking.
  19. dpmiller
    Nope, same jet. Just a slight adjustment of the air pressure. (Confusing to most people, it's a venturi jet like a spraygun and you increase the airflow to increase fuel. Yes, more air makes it richer.)
  20. dpmiller
    Ian, those units are pretty foolproof if looked after. Did it come set up for kero or red? A slight adjustment of the air screw at the back of the unit is required to optimise the burn for either. Faceplate not much more than cherry red, and no visible flames out the front *should* be about right. Was it new stock? Might be worth checking the fuel and air hoses for perishing regardless. I know my way about these pretty well, ask away if you need anything.
  21. dpmiller
    ...And it arrived. One lightly-used Sentinel Kinetic Highflow.
  22. dpmiller
    is it ventilated?
  23. dpmiller
    I'll tell you better when it arrives.
  24. dpmiller
    Isn't a strip of DPC over the top of the opening and up the back of the sheathing membrane SOP?
  25. dpmiller
    Another busy week approaches. The roof tiles and accessories are to arrive on Monday as is my bargain MVHR unit. Final glazing visit on Wednesday (hopefully!). Blockwork is finished in the porch so we repositioned the scaffold out from under it today. Just waiting for a couple of picking issues to be resolved with the chimney system and they'll be going up too. Not so much blue membrane on show now! These are the Swift Air chimney blocks. Precut rockwool fills the space around the ceramic inner pipe. And this is the Ignis Protect in pretty much final position. The stove pipe comes through the centre, and another steel outer sleeve gives an airgap through the cavity and masonry.
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