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https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/tax-building-scrap-homes-target-3978843?ico=most_popular Most waste on a newbuild building site is pretty easy to segregate. If you're careful you don't need many mixed waste skips.

Just been listening to some guy on x saying build cost at £3000 p/m2 by the time you add land and builders profit sale price around £6000 p/m2. They must be talking London or south east at those numbers surely? Sales prices here in Midlands around £3000 per m2

It won't be his problem then or his insurer refusing to pay out. You can't allow for every eventuality. Wouldn't the new couple need hetas or bc to upgrade stove? Then hetas fitter would flag up the issues. You need gas safe when changing a boiler.

That was my conclusion too. Although I think after 10 years you would be insurable and sellable as wouldn't be a new build.

Alot of times the pan doesn't even need mechanically fixing down. I think resident plumber expert @Nickfromwales was just saying the other week he uses ct1 to stick his down. I didn't fix mine in last place. One was back to wall and stuck to wall, other was close coupled but fine stuck ontop of floating floor

My God find something better to do with your time

Do you guys have photos of yours in? How do you maintain air tightness where flue passes thru wall?

Single room units might be better?

It's probably a bespoke door. Look at the age of it. You might be better off with a 726x2040 metric and lipping both sides but it depends what construction you go for, chipboard be no good if cutting it down a few inches at the bottom.

how would it be from 45 and back up, if the tank only empties halfway? Mains water is always going to be cold isn't it. The more you look at it the more you see the appeal of that big combi. Just seems like less cost and less to go wrong. Can it be passed on the SAP though @Indy

how quick can an immersion recharge a tank after most of the water is gone? Or would it be ashp and immersion combined to provide quickest recharge? Is it a how long is a piece of string question?

Dunno wasn't there when it was built. Probably skimmed but with tapered edge boards else the flats of boards wouldn't look so wobbly?

Been gym tonight not as bad there

Yeh I thought you could. Why do you strip the flooring and put former on joists? Can't you just sit former on floor then overlay whole bathroom floor with thicker backer board?

Can't you tile onto the formers direct?

Why no good for ufh? Not hard enough? Pipes can be stapled to insulation though

The big boys get their agents to go round with a bit of copper tube, shine torches up the wall right on the angle and they draw on the wall with the copper all the rough bits. Then a man comes with easy fill and a cordless big makita disc sander and puts it right. It's literally a process of the build with the state of some of the site plastering. Called patchers. Round my way the plastering firms also do the decorating so there's no quibbles about who's job it is. Perhaps @nod does similar?

What about this one i seen on a job the other year. It did catch the sun but my God it was rough.

Have you put your supply pipe in yet? What size have you specced? Here you can have 25 or 32 i think. I had the bigger one on last place for better flow rate but think the meter pipe is the same size

But why would you have it banned because it didn't work for you when it sounds like it would suit OP perfectly?

Why short loops @Gus Potter?

No biggie just mail a fillet on when lathing up. Job done

Poor OP getting crucified here because he wants to stick with a gas boiler 🤣. It's like a swear word round here. Not everyone wants to write a thesis on thermodynamics just to get heat and hot water. These new boilers are all coming ready for when they mix the gas too. My prediction is majority of UK homes still using gas for heating by 2050. Tories have said they will scrap net zero legislation, not that they will get in. But the tide is turning on the eco zealotry.

Yeh I think the ratio these could go down to was advertised as quite good but im not really clued up. 15:1 from memory

Yeh the urban plumber guy used a 30 ish kw with cylinder, but the person in the comments implied that these bigger combis can just do everything out of the box. I think the Navien one had some kind of hot return loop to fit. They're not even that expensive so is it just better to go with one of these out of the box and job done?