Recent content by Mikerightsecondtime

I am looking to tie the inner leaf block wall to the floor joists from inside under the floorboards. I’m not sure what type of straps or angle bracket I should use. Any advice?

I think the truth of it is that trades - when working on an hourly rate - have at the back of their mind that the slower they go the more money they get. If they are thinking, “if this takes 4 hours I’ll get £200, but if it takes 6 hours I’ll get £300”, then guess what, it somehow seems to take...

He wanted hourly in case any unforeseen problems ran into (1960s wiring, but consumer unit replaced 10yrs ago so not too old). Here’s what I would estimate for time based on how long it would take me: - attach 3 light switch face plates - 30 mins - attach 2 socket face plates - 20 mins -...

To second fix(all wiring in place and hanging out of fixed in place back boxes), all in same room: - 3 light switches - 2 sockets - 3 round flush ceiling led light fittings ( (wiring in place, holes cut) - to remove from the fuse board 2 dead legs no longer required - to refresh an existing...

the solution I have applied complies with all the rules. If a layman said what they planned to do in my job that was against the rules, but gets the result they want, I’d say, you shouldn’t do that because of X,Y,Z, but what you CAN do is A,B,C - and if you do that, it should give you a good...

Ok, for the benefit of others who may read this thread with a similar issue. I managed to improve the performance of the shower by about 30%. That took it from a slightly weaker shower, to fairly good, but not as good as you’d get with a 2 bar shower pump on it - but easily good enough for a...

So you are saying it is impossible to boost pressure at a 2nd floor shower, if the shower runs on an unvented system. Is that right? One way would be to put a pump on the shower feed, but you think that’ll be like Chernobyl, so what do you suggest - or is it just ‘computer says no’ and we can’t...

Still no answers. So, the pump put on the main would (a) have a check valve installed with it, to stop any back flow, and (b) have a flow switch that would stop the pump if a lack of flow was detected (eg supply from the main was cut off due to a burst main etc. why has no-one mentioned that you...

Backflow, not flip? Although probably more chance of a backflip getting into the neighbour

How can backflip get out of my house via the main to my neighbours house, if I have installed a check valve?

Backflow can be easily addressed with a check valve surely? Water main depletion due to a shower pump is a theoretical not real issue. In the same way - of everyone on the street turns all their taps and hoses on at the same time (for which there are no rules to ‘keep us all safe’) they will all...

Ever heard of a NRV?

Welcome any real life informed answers if someone put a pump on the shower pipes I’m fairly sure a sink hole won’t emerge in the street and swallow the neighbourhood.

This doesn’t mean I’m going to do it; it’s more for learning the technical barriers (are there any - if so what are they and why would they happen) - or is it all just a legal barrier?