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    Solar Hot Water - mystery nocturnal activity

    In the early days of solar it was very easy to get the sensors mixed up. The two ntc sensors are almost identical the only difference is the resistance. The roof sensor has a range of say 5 - 130c whereas cylinder 10-60c but them mixed up and some wierd and wonderful things happen. My panels...
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    Why aren't central heating biocides widely available?

    It's normally multiple people putting in different inhibitors. Add some gunge and bacteria and then 50 degree summer heat. And normally Trvs and no bypass and you get hot circulation around the header tank.
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    Low mains water flow stumped!

    I've got a 1952 iron main with 40 litres a minute and 4.5 bar of pressure theres a 225mm main one street over
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    Can Grundfos UPS2 fail slowly?

    Did you remove the pump when you desludged. Sounds like you sent sludge into the impellor of the pump
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    Loud droning from new Vaillant system boiler

    Have you got an automatic bypass valve in the system. Not on the boiler it doesn't count.
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    Loud Whale shower gulper noise? Sucking more than water available

    I had one the other day was mounted under a bath was a dry deck whale pump had a controller screen remote to the pump. Not like the council spec akw Walle version. Was able to adjust speed (noise) by altering voltage to the pump in the menu...
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    Noise from unvented hot water system

    Remove the flexible hose feeding the E.V. Hardpipe it can reduce it down to 15mm pipe its easier. Few years ago the ariston Classico used to come with a flexible hose it caused chaos in the end they stopped providing them. Installers subsequently Hardpiped them and the noises went away.
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    unvented cylinder advice/future proofing

    Your P. V solar array can be used to backfeed your immersion heaters in either a vented or unvented cylinder. The only thing is you will probably need to upgrade your immersion heater to a Incaloy version if you want to use it all the time as most immersion heaters are low quality backups.
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    DHW too hot in new shower

    The shower dial has been mounted in the wrong position. Normally a shower cartridge will have 3 rotations left to right. But the dial will only swing 3/4 of a turn. So it's imperitive you have cold and hot withing the swing. Too far one way and you get very hot and hot.
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    DIY solar collector heat output

    Are you running direct water through your panels? As there designed to work with a glycol mix
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    Not enough cement???

    I worked at Heathrow for ten years on the cargo. We used to do double shifts our last job would be job and knock. We would be rostered to work till 11 but go home at 7 every day I do get ****ed of with builders who think half day Fridays are the norm, when I normally do a 6 day week.
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    Mains or battery chainsaw

    The cheapo titan electric chainsaw is great from screwfix. Need to change the oreogan chains every now and then. I cleared some trees with 18" trunks. Had some 200mm x 200mm oak to. Cut longways so treated myself to a einhell petrol chainsaw with a bit more ommphh.
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    Adding wall plate & joist hangers

    Just fill it with hard-core and screed floor with a dpm.
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    New trusses and raising wall plate

    50k so far
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    New trusses and raising wall plate

    I paid just under 5k for the scaffold.
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    New gable walls insulation question

    Forgot to mention we had tyvek stapled onto the face of the osb facing the cavity.
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    New gable walls insulation question

    Hi we have had our front and back gable built up. The nature of construction will be 20mm render/100mm concrete blocks/50mm airgap/13mm osb /4x2 studwork/80mm celotex 13mm osb x2/vapour barrier/plasterboard/skim Now I asked my bricky if he needed 50mm cavity batts, to which he said no. Just...
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    New trusses and raising wall plate

    Nice and dry in here
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