TonyT
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you can specify location of connections on cylinder to make it easier to install. please ensure there is some plywood on the wall or behind the plasterboard, makes fixing equipment pipe supports a doddle and the install easier.
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https://www.reinforcementproductsonline.co.uk/wire-ties.html Ones like this that have the loops preformed to make it easy with the twist tool. Or just plain wire that you twist by hand and snip off
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Fan coil unit, ducted to ceiling mounted diffusers
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Fully get that, but our unit freezes a fair old bit, and stops heating for a while, so the trace heating ticks the box for this particular installation in a commercial building with staff and members of the public.
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Don’t think so, just preventing the ice from forming by localised heating. this is a commercial building so we need to maintain the internal temperature to a certain temp for staff at work previously the unit would freeze over, the inside temp would drop and staff complain, out comes the 3kW fan heaters and the cycle of complaints start, as always they heat the area around the thermostat, fooling it in thinking the room temperature has been achieved and the ASHP shuts off and the room gets colder.. educating staff works for 10 seconds, so the trace heating prevents the ice from forming and saves me grief.
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We have tyrapped it to the external grill on one of our ASHP in a building I manage. But the trace heating worked a treat.
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You can use some self regulating trace heating tape to prevent the freezing, instead of the ASHP going on reverse or using its own external heater. at 10 watt per metre it can be cheaper to run.
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Vertical Axis Wind Turbines in the garden
TonyT replied to EmB's topic in General Alternative Energy Issues
You can do east /west facing strings on 2 strings into the PV inverter. doesn't have to be just south -
So if the pin is on the top and you have a 3 storey building but are trying to escape from the middle floor, how does that work? I wouldn’t be relying on it, rather have smoke detectors, fire extinguishers and would rather throw one of their window hook ladders out the window than climbing onto that
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Sticking to a drawing and not changing design mid build
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Looks like a crappy wind turbine that will generate next to nothing!
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Fit one at the consumer unit then....? I wouldn’t have one visible after doing to a lot of detail, it would be in a cupboard, in the loft at the DB.
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It’s manufacturers instructions that will say it has to be a ‘local’ isolation
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Why are the cables on your land?
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Leak Sealer F4 is a internal leak sealer developed for use throughout a central heating system to seal small, inaccessible leaks and weeps which may cause pressure loss and boiler breakdown. Once dispersed within the system, the product finds the area of oxygen ingress and forms a polymer to seal the pinhole quote from the manufacturer
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https://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/gs6.pdf Some safe working guidance for working near to HV, can’t help on vat?
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Kitchen design app.
TonyT replied to Russell griffiths's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
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https://www.ironmongerydirect.co.uk/product/spax-washer-head-wirox-screw-60x300mm-pack-50-310973 bfo screws
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What does that mean?
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Where are you finding these tradespersons?
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Do it before any conversion so that anyone doing new work knows it’s safe to add to existing or has to install new cabling back to consumer unit. you never know the property may have been rewired before it may not so best to get EICR done first and you will be issued a certificate for this !!
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Ps where about are you in the UK? As some regulations are different , such as Scotland and England and some local authorities are more stringent than others. you can download the technical standards for a good read below applicable for Scotland. https://www.gov.scot/publications/building-standards-technical-handbook-2019-domestic/
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And see about changing the locks to keep the other builder away!
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List plumbing and electrical defects first as the rectification of these can lead to work in adjoins rooms to rewire/replace pipework or connect up to existing good cabling/pipework. I would recommend you get an electrician to do an EICR( report on existing cabling/accessories etc ) and not let builders near it. Possibly find a gas safe registered plumber/heating engineer to do a report on the condition of the plumbing/waste/heating system. that way you a starting point for remedial works, and can pass the reports to others to quote from.. good luck!!
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If they have taken your cash and issued an insurance document you are covered, As always insurance companies will do their hardest not to pay out. don’t offer any additional information, answer questions briefly and factually without being an ar@e.
