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The weird thing is that if you go to their site and price up a tap, if you chose the pro3 reservoir, it gives you the option of the scale control plus cartridge. But if you select the pro7 or combi reservoir, you don't get the option to add the scale control. But there are instructions to install a scale control cartridge with a combi reservoir available. They don't make it easy.

That filter is the internal filter that needs changing at 3-5 years? We don't have hard water but we do get some build up over time. That said, the coffee machine has said its scaled up pretty much since we bought it - warning light. I might descale it every 6 months or so but it never goes out and so far has never stopped working. been there years.

@ryder72 to be honest the accessory filter info seems deliberately obtuse and dare I say it misleading. The way the cold water filter is described - switch from tap water to cold filtered water - sounds like it chills the water. It doesn't does it? You need the CUBE for that don't you? Wouldn't a £20 10 inch water filter with £5 cartridges do similar? Which is something I've supposed to have done for the last 5 years.

Really? ?

I did a test this morning, it takes at least 30 seconds for the water to be ‘hot’ out of the kitchen tap if it’s not been used recently. So the combi would be a helpful addition.

Divorce him and take half his money while he still has some. #lifecoach

Have you got one @joth ?

IIRC, Jeremy doesn’t have a Quooker but in Quooker-speak, this would be the Combi accessory to provide normal hot water as well as boiling?

@nod that looks like the boiler unit is on the deck. Does that mean the £100 bracket is not required? Also, does anyone have the COMBI unit? I’m wonder is if it’s worth the extra. It does take a while for hot water to get to the kitchen tap. Having instant hot water would be very convenient.

The 'Patlock' is a neat solution for french doors (google it), is there a similar product for a bifold door where the leaf with the handle is adjacent to the wall? Something as simple as a bracket attached to the wall to prevent the handle from rotating downward would do the job, wouldn't it? You can get door braces to prevent a door being pushed open but that doesn't work on i) outward opening or ii) a multipoint locking handle where you can lift the handle up.

How many trips to the recycling centre? How far is it?

Arkham more like

Lol, I wouldnt look at my micro office thread, I don’t think that’s the sort of thing you’re looking for. I have a longer term plan for a much bigger garden room so will keep an eye on your vlog

Which is why it’s a question. What difference does it make? So much flooring came up when we plumbed and re-wired I’ve probably got reasonable access if I went to the trouble of clearing the rooms and lifting the carpets.

It must be a safe guarding thing, although I’ve never made a big thing about it but they play the game and group chat on their phones, on loudspeaker ?

Without distracting from the issues in this thread, Is it worth retrofitting insulation in an older property? we can hear my child playing video games Upstairs whilst we watch the Tv in the lounge. My experience where the cowboy builder used a minimal amount of candy floss insulation in a ceiling is that there probably isn’t much effect. But where I used rock wool slab insulation in the stud walls and ceiling of our utility room, I think it’s quite effective - despite the stud wall ‘not requiring it’ as it has a door in it. Washing machine and tumble dryer are reasonably well muted. 12mm pb + 100mm slab + 9mm pb + skims on both sides. I suspect that 100mm slab insulation in a ceiling would be helpful but would it be worth the effort?

Gardening is a full-time, ballache of a job. For 7 months a year it’s trying to strangle you and you have to spend your time stopping it from taking over before you get to improvements. And some people do it every year! Through a combination of lockdown, great weather and a lack of occupational work I’ve spent more time in my garden this year than in my entire adult life. (That isn’t surprising when you’ve spent 3/4 of that time in back to back terraces and flats). It’s given us some thoughts on some ‘features’ we would like but one thing neither my wife or I can do is visualise a garden we want. Which is in stark contrast to the house where we’ve always been able to see what we wanted. We need to spend the money on someone who knows what they’re doing but finding one of those is not easy.

I like the advice in the final paragraph - "cut right down". Far easier to start again than correctly manage a big mess. My neighbour's very vigorous passion flower has violated the laurel tree I wish to prune/cut down. I need to have the conversation with next door as I am not waiting till spring (advised passion flower pruning season)

This is the space I have. (The hot tub doesn’t usually live there, I’m waiting for a dry day to clean it and put it away) There’s room for a 8’x4’ shed (tiles are 600 x 600) with plenty of space to open the french doors and approx 800mm down the side. I won’t be able to use the French doors for access - that’s my wife’s treatment room but that’s where power will be coming from. The Laurel is in the way and to be honest not doing anything for us. It’s run away in height and covered in a neighbour’s climber of some sort. It just got left and we worked around it. I’m tempted to chop it down and put something else there. We’d love a Ceanothus in the garden but it’s too shady there.

anel-6000k-600mm-x-600mm-c-w-driver.html looks like inflation has put the price up a bit but still £23 per panel. BTW they came packed (from the factory in 4s including the mounting kit) Cheers

@Tennentslager Where were these from? Are these typical 600x600mm LED panels, 4000K, about 35W / 3000+ Lumens with surface mount frame? Does the dimmer give a true spectrum of dim?

Oo, I don't know Danielle Maybe you could post a link of the firm your friend suggested so we can all find out about them?

Its like car noises, just turn the radio up.

Stick build is great till I think about needing to sort a door and a window and a shed just makes things easier. I would prefer the OSB on the outside so it would still need cladding and takes it to shed money. 6x4 might be a little small (paced out on the kitchen floor) so I might look at the 8x4 size. You can run a washing machine, a kettle, a toaster and an induction hob plate of a single 4-gang extension lead - but I wouldn't recommend it. I know the electrics would be ok, I think I have a couple of options without having to dangle a lead out of a window. I don't get the fan heater thing, you get a load of noise and suffocating sauna until it cools and does it all again. Who hasn't worked in a portacabin in the middle of winter where you're sat at your desk getting frostbite on your fingers but when you stand up you faint because the top half of the room is like a sauna. I think I'd rather have a little bit of insulation and a ticking oil rad.