dpmiller

A nice crisp spring morning, so down to the site goes I. Sheep are gone, and so is the grass. But they haven't touched the rushes so time to break out the strimmer w/ brush blade. That should make them more receptive to the forthcoming chemical treatment. After clearing about a third of the site my arms were rather pumped up so enough strimming for the day. The site is looking much more expansive now tho that it's flattening out. Next job then was to get the water on. Temporary joint made and an outside tap hung on a post (yes, double check valve), drive up to the road, find which Toby is ours and turn it on. Drive back down lane, turn on tap, and wait... / what *is* the volume of 650m of 32mm MDPE??? we have water! Still a bit aerated even after running for fifteen minutes, but we have clean water and it's at good flow and pressure. Happy with that.

that's insurance for you...

@JSHarris car rain detectors are optical, using the water droplet to refract a light beam (visible orange light in some early units) back to a receiver. If the screen is dry the light beam just passes out through the glass. here's a standalone using the same tech http://rainsensors.com/

Lidl do a set of Ti coated in a blue steel box that are superb.

if you went with Stelrad Vita Eco rads their fittings are in the middle and take Eurocones IIRC.

Heard a distinctive rustling in the attic a couple of nights back so set the traps with a fresh blob of PB on each, found a result this morning.

I must admit I'm drawn to a hide-a hose setup for our upstairs and rather like the idea of sweep inlets for the kitchen and maybe beside the fireplace.

hopefully not the towel. Everybody needs to know where their towel is.

must be a hand towel, it's not folded. also: no kids in that house else it's be in a crumpled heap anyway...

how many Ah do you really need?

At three years you'd probably be OK but best look closely at them for signs of overheating- the UPS supplied with our Immunostainers (a nice Riello) isn't worked hard, but I've replaced four sets of batteries this year in 6yo systems, the individual 12v AGMs in the bank/box had been hot enough to meld together...

Nick, the Smiths/ Dimplex style fancoils have an NO stat which inhibits the fan until the HE is warm. After that point control can be either external or internal.

Moving on slowly... Spent a couple of hours on the site today walking round, looking, thinking. Tramping through loadsa sheep crap- the vendor has put some animals on it to lose the long grass for us, and it's made quite a difference even in only a week. Drainage looks good. There's been some pretty heavy rain the past while (noticeable field runoff on roads in the locality) And while the site is surface soft with some standing water in the low spots, the field drain is trickling away happily. I've pulled up the water main and the phone cable. There's an uncompleted joint in the water line on the other side of the long lane so I'll need to pop a coupler on and bury it but then we should have water. The phone will probably need splicing into the line coming down to the bungalow next door in the same spot. And the electric? Even better than anticipated. On inspection, the poles and overhead crossing the site are the 240v to the next farm, and both it and the underground to the bungalow are fed by an overhead from the transformer, over the neighbour's lane. Now where's those croc clips...

in this scenario surely you wouldn't need the motor valve on the return and just run the UFH pump off the thermostats?

the thermal shutoff valve, in your diagram. And does the fan coil unit have a shutoff valve inside it?

you're not using the microswitch atop the zone valve to control the pump?

more insulation above the ceiling.

isn't it true that the hemihydrate screeds don't suffer from laitance issues?

CPC have a massive range of this stuff, modular and assembled. this one doesn't have a phone sockethttp://cpc.farnell.com/global-communications/mswp/global-multi-service-wall-plate/dp/SE00284 and if you splash for a Loftbox or similar then all the multiplexing and sharing is done in one go. http://cpc.farnell.com/global-communications/loftbox-8-g/tvlink-8way-loftbox-psu/dp/SE00366?ost=loftbox&iscrfnonsku=false&ddkey=http%3Aen-CPC%2FCPC_United_Kingdom%2Fsearch

Land liability only for us, just yet.

tend to be a buck converter.

battery as in a series/ number of elements

Bought one of those 12v packs as a spare for my collated screwdriver. Admittedly I paid the princely sum of £7.99 but that got it to me in a couple of days from a UK vendor. Arrived darned-near fully charged.

Woo-hoo we own a field! our private laneway how the site looks now the view "from the front door" field drain. Note that the fence isn't the boundary here, rather the centre of the drain.

Rolled road planings maybe?