Recent content by dodgem101

As Steve said, put some pieces of timber up the wall and use them to run your feather edge up to get the render flat between, then remove and fill in the gaps. (Make sure the wood is straight and vertical). Then you'll have a flat base to skim onto. I've just skimmed the downstairs of my...

Thanks both of you. I take it that the second option you talk about mysteryman, is the same as the A5 setting that ALEC1 and I mentioned. I see your point about the frost protection. My night setback is 7C for the rads and 12C for the ufh, and I've now set the difference to -4K so even at...

@mysteryman - When i decided to get a WC system for my heating, one of the factors i liked was that it seemed that once setup correctly, there would be no need to touch it. Selecting DHW only in the summer seems like a very crude way to reduce the heat in the summer, and indeed if (god forbid)...

I recently (January) installed a Vitodens 200W with a sub-mounted mixer kit into my home as part of a refurbishment project. I have installed the WC controller and use the unmixed supply for the upstairs radiators, and the mixed supply for UFH downstairs. So far I'm very happy with it, but...

Haha :) That made my girlfriend laugh! I guess it does sound kind of full on, but i'm hoping that once it's set, we won't have to touch the controls year round.

Well, Veissmann technical were very helpful.... The H01A controller is capable of completely separate WC slopes and positions for each heating circuit - fantastic. The internal pump is capable of circulating to the rads and to the hot water cylinder if i go that route. I would need to use...

I can understand that the heatloss is not an important consideration when choosing a combi boiler... The boiler needs to be sized according to hot water usage, which will be massively higher than the CH requirements. This would appear to mean that the boiler will have to cycle when doing CH...

Bit of an in depth one here, so bear with me please... :) I'm doing what amounts to a whole house refurb at the moment, which includes fitting wet underfloor heating to the whole of the downstairs, in 3 rooms. I also have a new water connection in 25mm MDPE coming into the house which will...

The branch pipe from the main needs to be at least 750mm below the ground before it enters your house, and then 750mm below the floor until it reaches the stop cock location. At the stopcock it should then come straight up to the stopcock. (just having a new supply to my house put in at the...

Thanks again mointainwalker. I'll take some of your questions, such as bend radius, back to Rayotec and see what they have to say. As you say, it could be pretty hard to get 3 pipes together round a bend without the inner one "popping up". The 25 year vs 50 year guarantee isn't so...

Cheers Static. I've had a builder round who quoted a pretty reasonable £1000 to fit the RSJ and take away the old material. That was leaving me to box it in and make good. While he was looking at the job though, he suggested i might be able to use two box lintels instead of the RSJ since...

Sorry, i didn't make it very clear about the height of the floor. It would only raise the floor height a few mm above my current finished floor height, since i am removing roughly 50mm of material to get back to the concrete. The preformed boards, which are the insulator, are approx 50mm...

I'm looking for an underfloor heating system at the moment and wondered whether anyone here had used Rayotec Triple Tube and what you thought of it? The reason it stands out from the rest for me is the fact that it can be installed directly below an engineered wooden floor as well as in...

Hi, I'm new here... as you can tell from my post count! Though i've read a lot of useful info on this site :) I'm planning a kitchen extension at the moment and will be knocking through the back wall of my house. It's an old terraced house - i believe from the late 1800s, and the...