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I have that sort of bag, everything ends up lost in the bottom unless i waste time putting each thing carefully in its place. What happens is when i bring tools out i lay them on the floor between using them and when i'm done i have to carefully put each one back, or chuck them randomly in the...

Back in the late 80s I was a plumbing apprentice and I remember we all had these bags. I might be rose tinted glasses on this but i seem to remember when you put the bag down the tools are all spread out on the floor (on the canvas) fairly well for you to see and then its easy to pick the bag up...

is it possible with an old non-condensing boiler? https://www.vokera.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/maxin_24e_28e_installation_and_servicing_-instructions.pdf it was just fully open when we got here and was very noticeably raising return temp as soon as it started while the rest of the return...

i'm not entirely surprised if Parkside isn't half bad, they have come up in quality a lot, I've got their plasma cutter with inbuilt compressor and a few other things that seem decent enough for hobby use anyway. milwaukee are also made in china, but I'm assuming will be more robust but then i...

What would be useful is an outdoor temp reader linked which changed the target temp of the boiler. It wont work on mine as no way to control that other than a manual pot (or does it?) but I can imagine it would be a useful way to do macro adjustments to the system

I've taken some out but even with 7 rads on one 15mm feed they are getting decently hot now. New capacitor made all the difference with that. If the rads were giving up the heat faster it might be more obviously lacking. We'll see but I expect 4 upstairs rads on one 15mm branch will be fine for...

I was assuming meant wall thermostat. Thanks for the explanation. I'm not sure if we'd benefit much by having wall thermostats in each room and i prefer to keep it simple. We have a gas fire in the living room which is drawing the family to use that space together more which is nice, rest of...

I appreciate what you're saying but the current system is 22mm for just a meter then 15mm to that one rad just above the boiler. and 15mm to everything else. It will have to be better balanced with this but even then having those individual ones off the 22 i'll be well focused on balancing once...

Due to adding an external door where the current run of heating pipes is and partly because i need to get this part done before the kitchen is done I'm contemplating the following design which will avoid the door and the kitchen which will have underfloor. The kitchen is the other side of the...

i really can't see a way to get them out from under the floor and then i'd have to work the wires across the lath and plaster ceiling and joists. I'm figuring i can suck something on string through the pipe with a vacuum cleaner and pull the cable through.

You should get a prize, its a maxin 28e Looking at where the CH flow and return are i can see the return goes to the pump, through the exchanger and back out through the flow valve. For DHW it is diverted through the plate exchanger and back up through the main heat exchanger in a loop, that...

Good to hear. I think it was a fair concern though when the boiler has lasted so well I don't want to think i'm being clever, improve the balance and then 6 months later find its started rotting out. It has a very short and very clean straight flue, no condensate trap that I can find despite...

I can't see why it would really need one as if there is no flow a micro switch is deactivated and the boiler should shut off, but maybe with a lock out needing a reset I'm not sure. I'm more interested if it used to be a part of normal design to have a short loop to keep return temps up

Another vote for reciprocating saw. Get a selection of blades and you'll find a hell of a lot of uses for it, i've used mine for cutting through my exhaust pipe, demolishing walls in the most satisfying way, cutting copper and plastic plumbing pipes, floorboards. bathtub, fence, pruning, cutting...

Well I know roughly what they are for, clues in the name, but not exactly how it interacts with each other and which point. I take it the bypass isn't doing the function a bypass valve would? Though if it can't go around the CH system, if it can go around inside the boiler it would shut off due...

Its a non-condensing combi with a 3 port valve. I think I understand it quite well but I'm not sure what the bypass tube under the plate heat exchanger is for, or the pressure pipes, do you know?

This one keeps ending with no buyers for £25, if i was in the market for a bench grinder I'd message offering to end it now for £20 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/396259169960 I have a 450w Hanning slow/fast grinder and its a beast. These smaller ones won't be bad though, far better than anything...

This will be a bargain for someone https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/186998805240 Not sure about availability of 125mm grinding wheels though, but german quality compact machine. you have about 8 minutes... the seller might be wrong about 125mm, could be 6" wheels

I very much doubt the new models are anything like the british made ones. The torque on my old Wolf 8" bench grinder is unbelievable, simply can't stop it. I think it was a parkside one I tried somewhere and anything more than the lightest push and it just stopped. They seem to have improved...

I'm happy with Pegler for all but the PRV I've just ordered from ebay 3 of Caleffi 533641H which are adjustable so i can tweek things for the house overall and can tweek each of the two mains fed mixer taps to bring them down to the same pressure as the hot comes from the boiler. Assuming that...