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Thanks it has never worked. I thought it was an air lock and tried to vent it myself but the hose got to bar pressure 3 and then popped off. Couldn't imagine an air lock could cause that sort of pressure issue but perhaps it could? Sounds love it is a plumber job, will just have to wait until after Xmas!

Hi, A bit if a novice at this but trying to work it out. We've been in our self build a couple of months now and heating has gone on, but one of the zones doesn't seem to be heating at all. The thermostat calls for heat and actuator pops up to open for water to flow, but there is no flow at all showing in the flow meter - it simply doesn't move. I've got a nu heat UFH system and gave them a call they suggested it might be a fault with the flow meter and to screw the flow meter out and swap it with another that I know works, but I simply can't screw it out, it just screws out a bit and never seems to actually pop out. I'm a bit out of my depth to be honest but can't seem to get a plumber to look at it before Christmas! Any thoughts greatly appreciated

Hi, We had a (partially) flat roof (bitumen felt) fitted around 6 months ago and are finally getting to final signoff for building control and structural warranty. One of the conditions of the structural warranty is that an insurance backed guarantee is put in place. I'm assuming this is because the warranty provider won't pay out for any damage to/caused by the flat roof until you have exhausted options with the insurance backed guarantee from the flat roof contractor. It is proving harder than expected because our builder (who sub-contracted the roofer) forgot about the insurance backed requirements (he got a guarnatee from the company that did the flat roof, but no insurance backing), and sub-contracted out to a roofer who moved from being a sole trader to a company around 12 months ago. Because of the lack of track record of the company that did the roof it's going to cost more than 10% of the entire cost of fitting the flat roof just to put the insurance backing to the guarantee in place. I'm trying to work out whether this is going to be worth the cost to put in place the insurance backing or whether I just just live with the guarantee itself and try to get the warranty provider just to exclude the flat roof from cover. The guys who fit the roof have got plenty of experience and I've no reason to think they haven't done a good job (from my laymen eyes looking at it and no hint of any problems, albeit only 6 months in!), it's just the company they now with hasn't been trading very long. Also a quick google seems to suggest that they are fairly easily repaired so I'm wondering if the cost of putting in place the insurance backing and the cost of the excess means in reality we're unlikely to be claiming on the new build warranty for issues with the flat roof anyway. Any thoughts gratefully appreciated! Thanks

Hi We're building on a plot previously occupied by a bungalow which has a single phase supply with 100amp fuse We have an ashp (16kwh) and are asking UKPN for permission to install but our electrician is telling us that allowing for electric car point in the future etc that we could be looking at a maximum demand a little in excess of 100amps Has anyone experienced this and know what UKPN will say? I'm guessing these calculations are made on an abundance of caution because ashp are supposed to be efficient etc so won't run at full whack and if we did have electric car point in future we would probably charge at night etc so I don't really want to pay to upgrade to three phase if not really necessary given the single phase supply already there currently. Any thoughts appreciated!

Hi, We're looking to build a 300 sq m house and have had 3 builders quotes back - main contractor will full project management. Building in Kent. One has come in at approx £2k per square metre for finished product (Inc demolition of existing bungalow on site but no landscaping etc - just the building). Another quite similar but about 15k more. A third has come in significantly cheaper - a little under £1500 psq which from what I've read seems really challenging for a high standard finished product. There could be some reasons for the cheaper quote coming out cheaper - a big team of directly employed people (the first two quotes were going to sub contract quite a bit out I think), and in an area about 30 mins away where I suspect there is less of a geographical 'premium' to the area, but the difference is astonishing. We've spoken to people who have employed the cheaper builder and mostly great reviews - one or two bitter complaints but I guess that may come with the territory, most people seem to be very happy. We've seen a couple houses ongoing and finished and all look very good. We are really struggling though to understand why the price difference is so stark compared with the two other quotes - have people encountered this before and what would you do?