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Makes sense in terms of why the rules for spiral stairs are as they are... but still not clear on when they apply. I've had a joiner tell me that three winder boxes of width 750mm (as per the above diagram) would not meet regs, as the centre going would only be around 196mm. But if I say it's...

Yes potentially true, but I'm thinking purely in terms of the regs...

For clarity, what I'm ultimately after is something like the below, which was designed using 3 winder boxes. Going by Doc K each side of the square needs to be at least around 1700mm to achieve the required going of 223mm. But BS 5395-2 (Category A – Small Private Stair) only specifies a...

:ROFLMAO: Needs must... Satan probably has a larger house than I do! I'm hopeful of being able to achieve what I need with reasonably decent-sized winder turns, rather than a traditional narrow & steep spiral staircase. But that's where the original question becomes pertinent... it seems...

Asked a few people about this, including building control, who haven't got back to me with a useful answer yet... The criteria for rise and going set out in Building Regs Doc K effectively give a minimum width of around 860mm for a 3 tread kite-winder (anything less and the centre line going...

Cheers John. To be honest I'm going to try not to do either of those things. The latter seems marginally more likely, and given that not connecting the bath to earth is clearly the easier option, I think I'll go with that!

Right, er, well glad to have prompted such enthusiastic debate! To be honest the last couple of pages have gone way over my head, but as far as I can see they seem to be related to a hypothetical bath, rather thant eh one I will be soaking msyelf in, so that's OK. Going back to mine, and...

I thought that might be the answer, but the (annoying) thing is that I'm not doing any electrical work, just putting a new bath in! We don't have an RCD in place, but it seems excessive to have get a sparky in just because I'm replacing my bath?!

Apologies if this is similar to other threads, but I couldn't see anything explicitly for this situation... I'm installing a steel bath, with polypipe plumbing / plastic waste - ie no metal joining to it. It is replacing an acrylic bath, and there is no earthing in place. It's also quite a...

Sorry, maybe didn't go into enough detail there... The end result is that the HW and/or CH are never satisfied, so something is going wrong somewhere. The degree to which this happens / periods for which the boiler flames vary, but any radiators past the first one or two in the loop very...

Sadly, it's bitter experience, not TV. As touched on in my last post, last time I had an issue with the central heating a few years back, the guy who came ronud confidently told me it was the PCB in the timer, destroyed a huge area of plastering around the timer getting it off the wall, and...

I suppose the whole concept of a DIY forum with an entire Plumbing and central heating section was always going to get some people's knickers in a twist. I'll remember not to bother taking an interest in future. :roll:

I wouldn't say no understanding, but it's limited to what I've learned from forums such as this. Thanks for the clarification on the liquid filled temperature probe - right function, wrong technology! As I say, I will be getting somebody out to look at it, just need to make sure it's not the...

Hi Mike, I appreciate that, and certainly wouldn't get involved in trying to service the boiler myself. But I'm keen to understand where the issue is likely to lie, as in my experience CH engineers can spend a lot of time faffing around and not addressing the right issue. So if I can talk...

I've been searching through the forum, but couldn't find any other examples of quite this problem... apologies if I missed one! The basic problem is that the main flame in my boiler (a glow worm space saver mk2) tends to cut in and out when it should be on, for CH and/or HW. Note that...