Recent content by Tom_Sauce

Hi all, A friend pointed out an issue with our composite door that is less than 6 months old. It looks as if the 'skin' as in the coloured part with the wood grain has somehow been pulled off. I'm guessing that this has happened as it's possibly been cut rough and caught either on the frame...

Blurb shows in on the left and out on the right. Just turned heating on and the hottest pipe is actually on the right without the thermostat! Typical of this house Thanks again for all the help fellas!

Am I right in thinking the flow is usually on the left and has the thermostat? Return is the right? Thanks

Thanks for the advice. The pipe that's currently in place is 10mm, I'm using 15mm that I will join on. Thanks

Vermin was a concern, we have had mice in the past but this was over 5 years ago with nothing since. Lifting floorboards up I can also see cable so if we did have mice that would also be chewed through too! TBH - where can't mice get in nowadays!

The current pipes into the old radiator that I am replacing are 10mm and are above the skirts, they come down from the ceiling the other side of the room and then follow the skirts to the old horizontal rad. Im going to cut them where ther are bent 90 deg near the floor and then using the 10mm...

Good advice thanks - I plan on letting the system run for a couple of weeks before I fix the floorboards down and tile over. Should hopefully be no issues!

Thanks oldbutnotdead It shouldnt be a issue to get most of the pipe insulated. Future maintenance is an issue because the floor will be tiled

Thanks for that Dilalio - The sleeper walls have gaps in so ive managed to thread the pipe through last night as a trial run. My issue is really if it can just be left on the floor

Hi all, Im looking to fit a new vertical radiator in the kitchen. Im looking to run some 15mm Hep20 under the suspended floor. I plan on doing it like so: Use a 10mm to 15mm coupler to attach the Copper 10mm to the 15mm Hep2O - this is on show above the floorboards but will be hidden by a...

Agreed

What I'm struggling to get around is that this could happen anyway to the house in my example without the loft conversion and the person in the bedroom would still be 'stuck', so why aren't the regs in place for a normal dwelling?

It's a flawed reg though. It's not like it would take 10 minutes to walk down a flight of stairs. Take the following example: You have two houses A & B They are exactly the same other than house B having a loft conversion with a staircase that runs into the loft from one of the bedrooms...

Thanks for that Woody, The conversion was completed years before we purchased the property and therefore I don't know if it was certified or not. Do you know if there is a way to check this? My issue is the strange 'safe path' rule. The staircase from the loft conversion finishes in a box...