MBC build- a year later
At long last we are starting. 3 months late but at least the weather has improved.
Spent all week excavating the slab base.
4 days of digger hire, 260 tonnes of muck removed, 80 tonnes of type 1 brought in.
Mbc are laying the type1 as the slab has a ring beam around the outside so it needs to be built up first before the main base is laid
I did some testing at our old house, which has a fairly high water pressure, over 5 bar and the only restriction is that the rising main is 15mm copper. The pressure is so high that all the taps were very sensitive, pretty much all or nothing, with a lot of splashing, so I fitted a PRedV on the incoming main some time ago to drop the pressure to 2.5 bar, which made the taps a fair bit more usable. That house has a combi boiler with a 28 kW (I think) DHW capacity and no power shower. The inco
