Recent content by andycarr1

Thanks - the links on the other post dont work, and getting one made specailly will cost a fortune. I know that the product exists, the one used previously were gifted by the local water board for a camp site I ran, so i know they should be available, just cant find where from. Searching in...

Hello all, I have used in the past several manhole lids (regular 600*450 size) which are metal lids (usually 20 ton limits but some 10) whihc sat in a steel lipped frame. BUT this steel lipped frame was itself cast into a concrete frame about 100 wide by 100 deep. I'm trying to source some...

Hi, I hav ethe same sort of thing - looking to install (retrofit) block and beam in a 150 YO house, what are you going to do where the block and beam meets the internal wall? - how do you join the two?? Thanks Andy

I'm slowly exacatating teh rooms to 2 foot depth, but still no further forward with ideas of connecting floor to walls, any ideas? Ta Andy

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Oh yes... you have no idea! - I just found a 5000 gallon, 5' deep active water cistern under the room with flags in..... (vaulted brick archwork... lovely, might not actually change this bit of the floor...)

HI, I've got an old victorian house to sort out and one of the major jobs is sorting the floor, in some rooms I have suspended wooden floors on rotten joists, in some I have flooring bricks laid direct on earth, in some I have old concrete pads (no DPM) and in one room flags laid on earth...

Hi, Hats off to you, pump just needed a screwdriver hand crank and is now running sweet as a nut, You've saved me a whole bunch of notes and for that I'm really grateful, have a pint on me! Many Thanks Andy

thanks, i'll try looking at the pump tomorrow, wondered if a smaller pump would do the job, one more domestic than light commercial now I've bypassed half the circuit. on a different note, I suppose it could be the pump is fine, but its working hard against a blockage, how would I trace /...

Hi all, I have an old house and next year the entire system is due to be ripped out for u/floor etc etc, but today I have a problem.... This is such an old house it has a ring of 1 1/2" BSP black iron with 9 rads stood off it, about 100ft of black iron and 50 ft of 22mm plastic where I...

Hi Thanks for that, I guess you meant "would NOT" go below 1"?? so If I used a 1 1/2 to 1 inch bush then a an inch BSP to 25mm compression to 25mm copper (or plastic?) that would be good? Ta

well, ripping the lot out is what will be done in the end, but I need to do room by room retrofit of UFH, really looking to know if anyone can identify the pipe size so i can get the right reducers and if 'throttling' the system by jumping it down to 1/2" BSP from 1 1/2" BSP for a section will...

Hi, first post here so please bear with me. I am starting to renovate my Girlfriends house, built sometime 1870's. At some point in the 40s/50s/60s the house has been fitted with central heating (of a sort). This consists of a large bore pipe (od 2", so can't work out standard size...