Recent content by meldrew

Chris Thanks for your comments so far, plus those of everyone else, it's got me thinking.. I'm having a new watermain fitted, I think it's 22mm? Or are they 25 - the standard blue pipe? Pipework - I can specify what size I shuold run from the uv cylinder to the showers, would 15 be alright...

Thanks for this, I'll go and find this stuff out and post again tomorrow. Anything I can do to avoid a very expensive mistake will help, especially since I will have run out of money by end of the whole building project! PS What is iirc?

Yes it is a lot... I'm paying GBP105 a month on gas at present.... I dunno where it all goes, when you say any other appliances off the meter I suspect half the bloomin' street is running off my meter.... Trouble is its a biggish draughty old house, vicwardian over 3 floors. I'm hoping...

I'm having a new h/w and c/h system fitted and the old copper cylinder system removed. Also boiler replaced as it's donkey's years old (Kingfisher, about 160btu I think, a big old beast) I'm having a pressurised system basically 'cos everyone tells me the showers are far more powerful, and I...

I recently had a guy in to do this and he swore by taking the sawdust from the second sand (this layer was close to "proper" wood colour, unlike the first sanding), then mixing it with varnish and some pva glue. Then he filled the gaps using a filling knife (admittedly none were more than say...