Ferdinand

Welcome to the forum. On this subject I am just the annoying voice in the Passive Cat Flap, however.

One option not mentioned is to put a traditional tubular loft or airing cupboard heater behind your bed. About £25. Say 40W or 80W and could presumably go on a timer. https://www.screwfix.com/p/dimplex-ecot2ft-wall-mounted-tubular-heater-80w/1796F https://www.screwfix.com/p/dimplex-ecot1ft-wall-mounted-tubular-heater-40w/3951f May be just the right amount to rebalance things, and raise the temp of that wall. Everso simple: F

Green Building Forum ... long running forum ie 10 years plus. BH seems to have largely taken over their self-build segment. GBF has for me generally been a bit more boffin-y and good for detailed howto questions where methods are not very widely established or accepted .. so eg for confirming by educated guesses. Best way to navigate it is via Google. (imo)

Actually doing my new bathroom took the fitter 13 and a half days, including a totally new sound insulation layer, subfloor, floor, ufh and tiles, and an entire @Onoff of pfaffing. F704A76E-1B3F-4540-B885-AD03DEA530D4.MOV

Milano Rasa sounds like a type of ice cream. Certainly not at all ascetic unless you plan to line it with sandpaper.

Back in the Spring I posted a planned design for a refurbishment of my main family bathroom. This is now 96% complete, and this is the After video. AFTER

Yep ... if you do get a walk in you have to be well-enough controlled to avoid spraying the water out of the gap.

i have one of the Lillangen sinks from Ikea in my tight bathroom. Available in several sizes including 400 x 400, 400 x 600 and one only 270 deep. Big enough to be very comfortable to use, and also good shape for washing and soaking things. Also inexpensive. https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/lillangen-single-wash-basin-white-00135419/

I would think that 1000x760 could be Ok with an entry slot, not a door, would be Ok depending on where you put the shower head. F

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Interesting. GBF and no one called it. Inthink it assumed that the next person would have checked. should I edit?

You need to consider your chimneys carefully. The blocked off ones will be uninsulated spaces exposed to outside, depending on how you choose to block them. Summary copied form here: http://www.greenbuilding.co.uk/GBF_Forum/discussion/comment/213675/#Comment_213675

Welcome.

No. This. Remember it has to be green or brown so the baby effect will not show.

ignore that hat the current ones do not align ... steady bar is still to be fitted. The 18mm is the end to end gap between the two pieces of glass. F

I am looking for the above .. a magnetic seal for a shower enclosure door approx 1.9m and an 18mm gap between 10mm thick pieces of glass. Does anyone have a good source? I have tried the ones I know, internet search and a couple of specialists. Plan B would be to remove the door and find a u-channel to hide the hinge cutouts. Cheers Ferdinand

Think I have resolved this. An overnight test revealed that the meter was indeed running at 1-2 cubic m per day. Resolved for me by adjusting the loo overflow, and also turning the water off for the void. Meter is old so may indeed be part of the problem. T will have a sticky situation to resolve with the provider, but as a reading has not been done for some time that may be arguable if pitched carefully. Nearly got licked to death by a dog, as it turns out T has been giving dog biscuits to regular canine passers-by on their daily walks, and particular doggo was expectant. Suggested that doggo commit burglary on next-door's burger van; refused, Packet of Bonios now supplied to the other shop next door, and a sign "Dog Biscuits Thataway" will be deployed. Have not warned chap next door as to the precise number of dogs that were supplied with biscuits. F

WA business tenant who has just left my shop has received a humongous wrap up bill, which is the best part of £1000 more than expected, which the water company alleges has built up over 18 months. The only thing I can see that is wrong is a constant leak in the loo from what looks like a badly sealed flush mechanism. Is anyone any good at visual estimation? This (attached) is a vid of the leak - what do we think the volume is roughly? My guestimate might be 10l per hour, and I need to go back and measure it then turn off the stop tap. I have little experience of estimating this, however. There could also be some runoff down the surface of the bowl. 20191010_180319[1].mp4 In the 2 weeks or so since they left the meter reading is up by 20 cubic m. So clearly something is going on. 1.5 cubic m per day is 1500 l per day, which is 0.4l per minute. Any comments welcome. Ferdinand

Congratulations on not vanishing without trace for some time like Dr Livingstone. I’ll try and come back on some of this later.

Cheers. Unfortunately it is behind tiles we are not refitting - had to create a one tile sized hole because the Ikea sink is different to a normal sink. F

Er .. no. Will not be ripping out all the walls to replace pipes ?. The horror - have just upgraded both bathrooms. If necessary I will apply a pump instead.

The hot is from a Combi. He has done a few other idiosyncratic things in various places. Its the swings of buying a self-build compared to the roundabout of a developer house ?. The structure is relatively over-engineered compared to the first fit, which is relatively skimped in some places. I put that down to "bugger - budget consumption is ahead of house production". F

Not really sure if this is sufficiently boffin-y. However... I am currently having my upstairs bathroom redone, and when we exposed the pipes supplying the whb, it turns out that the Hot is a 22mm pipe, and the Cold is a 15mm. This was built by a self-builder, and we were trying to fathom why this might be the case. My fitter commented that making it 22mm would probably result in a slower supply of hot water, and mentioned the Venturi effect. Plumbing and fluids not being my thing, can someone supply an explanation as to why this is the case (or a link), and why he may have done it? One impact of the new bath I have installed in addition to the shower is that there is now backwash up through the plughole of the downstairs shower (which has replaced a bath) and it now needs a non-return valve. What fun. Cheers F

Perhaps !!!! (The proof is the missing "-ly" on that "wrongly".) /pendant

I trust that you have run the overall numbers. I have tried on about 3 different period properties, and have never managed to make EWI add up economically (installed by contractor) once I have cut the bills by the usual renovations, F