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  1. dpmiller
    At least Kirby machines are solid... it always amazes me that no-one has yet sued the pants off Dyson about that "no filter" thing?
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    I'm covering all bases sink- wise with a double sink, double drainer. https://www.manomano.co.uk/double-bowl-sink/double-bowl-20-stainless-steel-inset-kitchen-sink-2-drainers-1500-x-480-f01-2256786
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    used inserts?
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    Local brokers- Kerrs- quoted me through "Selfbuildzone.com" and they are offering cover by Catlin underwrtten by Ageas. Might be worth a try?
  5. dpmiller
    Sorry Jeremy, my notes were wrong, it's a C88AM but the filter set is common. ..just looked on vax.co.uk. Eeek! ours didn't cost that much!!!!
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    Some of the new small cyclonic units work exteremely well After having smoked the motor of our previous cyclonic Vax we got another (a C86E2) earlier this year and it's quite remarkable. The dust container is a reasonable size and solid debris up to about 20mm will get through the cyclone into the bin. Very little ultrafine gets through to the main filter. Runs a turbo head waay better than anything before it so motor size aint the be all and end all.
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    No, I've neither dongle or sim for the 2850 currently but I fear it'll come into it's own when we move to the new place as the kilometre of copper down the lane doesn't offer brilliant sppeds I believe.
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    My current Draytek will do ADSL and VDSL as well as sharing or dropping back onto an attached USB dongle. Their latest (2860Ln) has the 3G/4G built in.
  9. dpmiller
    No recommendations on supplier but I'd give a big thumbs-up to Zarges for their equipment...
  10. dpmiller
    yup. 35cfm according to the blurb. That's going to be north of 10hp...
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    ...which is a good thing @Crofter. So where are we now then? Solicitor is finally happy with the bones of the deal so we've signed for the site subject to a couple of final niggly niggles. PC is happy with final placement on the site and has all the necessary drawings (location plan is GIANT to cover the whole lane, lol!) done to send in the application. He's just awaiting a FOI request for BCO's notes on the site and footings. I need to amend the drawings to include the treatment plant and then send off the Consent to Discharge application I need to visit the site with the strimmer and clear grass from around the footings to make'em nice and obvious and we need to do some planting to replicate what should've been done back when the footings went down, a bit of hawthorn hedging.
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    Yours didn't have a water drip as well Jeremy?
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    do you mean real aluminium or Mylar?
  14. dpmiller
    do MBC not counterbatten the ceiling for a void?
  15. dpmiller
    Normally "original" beans from Tesco, but tripped over a couple of 1.2kg bags of "gold" beans in Lidl. Not a bad cup but even more palatable at under a fiver for a bag!
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    not too picky on the beans here but we do have a Delonghi bean2cup machine to put them in.
  17. dpmiller
    depends. I'd say a consumer mig will be running out of penetration on bigger box wall. 150-180A needed IMHO.
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    We've both an underbench integrated larder and freezer from Bosch and they're pretty quiet; at the time of purchase they were much better efficiency-wise than any other reasonable options. based on that i don't think you'd go far wrong with the likes of this: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BOSCH-Classixx-KUL15A60GB-Integrated-Undercounter-Fridge-/263226903686?hash=item3d498bcc86:g:0BUAAOSwviBZx-dy
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    rated as P5 http://www.ecologicalbuildingsystems.com/docs/Spano-Durelis-Populair-Data-Sheet.pdf
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    Right then gents. Getting into the nitty gritty of some TF quotes and of the two I'm most interested in (names witheld at this time..) I'm interested in the collective's opinion of differing buildups. Forgetting cost at this point, and bearing in mind both systems are quoting the same U- value:- option 1 breather membrane/9mm OSB/140mm stud filled with Frametherm35/ 50mmPUR/ vapour barrier/ service void/ PB option 2 breather membrane/ 12mm Durelis Populair/ 140mm stud filled with Superglass35/ 50mmPUR taped as air&vapour tight/ service void/ PB Is the Populair's better vapour transfer likely to be a benefit in the real world?
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    If you're breaking Torx bits that easily, thay aint good'uns.
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    Heads up

    dpmiller commented on sussexlogs's blog entry in sussexlogs

    it isnt?
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    looks like a clone of the Lidl one I bought a year or so back, in which case it was an absolute steal at £30 as it really punches above it's weight in CFMs.
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    I'll retract my statement as my memory turns out to be befuddled. Back around ten years ago I was pretty active on Ukwhitegoods- both for personal research and also because I was doing a fair bit with Miele commercial glasswashers at the time. Back then the trade was agog at a tie-in between BSH and Merloni. But I remembered the detail incorrectly, I apologise. Trawling back through postings of the time, Merloni were buying in non-German BSH product and it's quality did no favours for either brand...
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    ^ against that, remember than Bosch bought in dishwashers from Merloni a few years back (rebranded Hotpoints) and they didn't quite live up to the German name.
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