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  1. 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.
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    ...And it arrived. One lightly-used Sentinel Kinetic Highflow.
  3. dpmiller
    is it ventilated?
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    I'll tell you better when it arrives.
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    Isn't a strip of DPC over the top of the opening and up the back of the sheathing membrane SOP?
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    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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    It sounds like it may have cleared itself?
  8. dpmiller
    airlock?
  9. dpmiller
    Looks like a good photo for detail actually. And I'd tend to agree with @JSHarris there are loads of mains flexes but few mains installation cables, only single insulation over much and bare PCBs also.
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    There was a item on the local news recently about a local steel-framed modular scheme- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-45332800
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    ^ wot Dave says. Plus the larger "towable" stuff is only this if you have access to a Disco, L200 or similar AND a fancy plant trailer...
  12. dpmiller
    Lose 150mm of the GF ceiling height?
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    2.8t Takeuchi here with all the bits inc. a breaker and pallet forks. Very useful machine and even tho it's got a bit of play in the kingpost the groundworks guy quite likes it, it's easy on fuel and digs well. The forks are pretty handy but a telehandler it aint.
  14. dpmiller
    As I do all the window cleaning in our house, I went for the sliding/egress hinges all round in our build.
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    ^same over here.
  16. dpmiller
    is there any requirement for fire protection?
  17. dpmiller
    steady progress with not too many dramas, and hopefully habitable by September.
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    OK. Rooflights are in. Keylites really are a doddle compared to Velux, the frames just drop into place with the bracket heights preset. But the 1340x980 units are HEAVY. Even though we'd scaff up in the hallway, it just wan't tall enough so a hastily-built stock of blocks with a pallet atop (and a ratchet strap holding it all to the scaff to be sure) gave us a platform to get the unit out to the roof on. Thankfully the pivots drop into place easily once the unit is set roughly into position. But talk about an anxious couple of minutes... Solar remote system works well, I've currently one channel for each window but they *could* both be on the same.
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    It's a shitty phone pic at dusk, but this is the *why*.. Birds singing, sun setting off to the left, water trickling, traffic noise a half-mile away. Bliss. Oh, but the Robin that flitting in-and-out through a gap in the felt? mate, you need somewhere else to shit.
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    So where are we now. Blockwork keeps on going, we've got all the *big* lintels in place now so the guys can just keep on plugging on , each course is shorter than the last now. Chimney stuff is here, sills are here (and look gorgeous, really fine finish on the concrete) and we're lifting the big Keylite windows into place tomorrow. SHMBO needs to be making final decisions on the position of sanitaryware and then it'll be first fix city. Window guys return 9th, roof stuff arrives that week too. Moving on...
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    only 35mm insulation?
  22. dpmiller
    two ufh manifolds and blending valves for me- £70 off. sweet.
  23. dpmiller
    I'm wondering whether you can furtle with the flow switch on the pump- move the reedswitch down a bit/ sleeve the chamber for a closer fit to the float/ put a light spring under the float.
  24. dpmiller
    how restrictive is the showerhead?
  25. dpmiller
    tried blowing through it?
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