Recent content by ruralboy

Hi, thanks for your reply, I took the advice and mounted it on the lathe faceplate with a heath robinson setup, and turned a new olive seating on it. I was thinking about soldering the pipe into the fitting solid, but figured the heat would damage the rubber seats inside. Might order a new one...

Hi, I opened the box on a esbe mixer valve for our radiator system and it has completely the wrong fittings from what I ordered (threaded flat flange 3/4), instead it has 22mm compression olive fittings, plus it has a dent on the olive area so it wont seal. It has the flow specs when I checked...

Theres no issue, the boiler starts up and brings the store up to temperature running flat out for about 10-15 minutes, then shuts off for a hour or so, its not running constantly as we set the cut in temperature much lower than the final cut out one. The oil tank is in another outbuilding out...

And a year on we had gone with the outbuilding install, and Im so glad we did, there is always a faint odour of diesel in the building where it is located. Losses from the circuit turned out to be not so problematic and it all worked brilliantly.

I just came on this thread researching pit construction because we have a motorhome amongst other vehicles (small tractors,jcb, landrovers etc). And a 10m long garage that currently has a dirt floor but will be getting a concrete base when I get around to it. Ive worked in commercial hgv garages...

Peak demand is 9Kw, because we have previously ran on a 9Kw 3 phase immersion which could keep pace with the UFH even on the coldest days. Its still in place, but is just not cost effective and the new renters want to run off oil instead. Boiler is a new lamborghini boiler with a 24Kw burner...

Hi, as previously posted, we've located a oil boiler in a outhouse at our rural french house, and am currently connecting it to a heatbank quad coil tank heatbank heatstore tank in the loft of the house. Pipe run is 28M long and a head of 7M up so have sized a capable pump, although the...

Not the alps, but we do hit -10 in the winter occasionally. Digging in a 500L+ tank would go below the water table when buried deep enough to get below the frost line. Then you'd have to be into filling it or ballasting it somehow or enclosing it in a concrete pit to stop hydraulic pressure...

Nobody? just bumping this in the hope that being on page1 again might solicit a response from someone oil pump knowledgeable.

Hi, I have a small property in france, and it currently is heated by solar panels feeding a heatbank 350L multi coil cylinder in the loft running underfloor heating. Backup for cloudy days and winter is a 3phase immersion heater supplying 9kw of heat which mid winter can *just* keep pace with...