Recent content by martygturner

As from personal experience that's just not true... its the condition of the lead pipe that was the issue with we six contraction / expansion bulges in the pipe when it were dug up. The lead was mechanically flaking off, gathering at the restriction, stop tap, bends the slowly leching into the...

Yep oh yep... having been a victim of it ... 1900's house with 25m of lead pipe..fatigue and muscle pain. Pipe replaced symptoms reduced after 4 months and disappeared after 18 months on all 4 adults living with us, on testing the supply, which is cheap @ £30 from your water company had a level...

To be fair that sounds like the wrong core size extension is being used... the longer the run the larger the voltage drop and hence the more amps drawn to power the device.

If you have lead pipe forget the bonding issue and get plastic run from the water meter / mains connection to the entry point... sort out the,in my opinion, the more serious issue of drinking lead contaminated water and then the bonding issue will be solved as a bonus.

Not really as you have the planning inspectorate shot and most side with previous development as the touchstone, as a planning inspectorate is in effect a court the chances of a rejection being overturned on appeal is pretty much a given. , proscribed areas - do you mean neighbourhood plans...in...

No as that would be a single extension... in PD you are allowed a depth from the rear wall of 3m for a semi or 4m for detached as long as no more that 50% of the total ground space of the plot is covered...note that only depth is important.. you can build over the entire width of the rear...

FYI we have a 4m run of 22mm then manifolds down to 10mm all our rads a scorching and they are all flat panel 6ft jobs without any balancing, all are wide open on a worcester 1000 30kw....

Yes you should... after all its only recognising that we are all equal.

what is wrong with woke ? it just means alert to racial and social injustice....

Love thy neighbour is on youtube if you need your fix.

Flea bag, Here we go, power of Parker and Black ops is pretty good as is Some Girls... but probably not for the type on here. You could try Back to life, which was very very good or Am I Being Unreasonable... Love all the woke nonsense, have a quick look at W1A to see the beeb send itself up...

You can use pits and steels to carry an upstairs over garage conversion.... Get an SE to design it...its not difficult or that expensive compared to the disruption. Top tip use Insulated structural panels, massive lowers the load and cost.

In reality the worst will be 4 sheets insulated plasterboard on the external wall instead of just plan plasterboard. The front ex garage door can just be built to spec. Unfortunately the transition period is over for buildings control is over and you need to build to current regs...but in all...

As per normal the numnuts see everthing as a binary choice...Green enrgey bad - coal/ oil good, brexit great, EU bad... Personal I would vote for have anybody in charge that can form a balanced argument, plan accordingly and then actually deliver that plan...all we get is 5 minute wonders.

On our combi it goes cold water feed, one way valve, limescale reducer (discuss merits - but boiler makers all seem to want one) small pressure vessel /expansion tank eg https://www.screwfix.com/p/ideal-heating-expansion-vessel-kit-0-16ltr/7292x = which is sepecced for the vouge. The expansion...