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    Glass lifter for indoors

    Looked up Travis and Jewsons hires, did not see it... My bad.
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    Glass lifter for indoors

    Would anyone know of a manual machine to help me lift and move 4 glass panes from and to the patio doors. The floor is new screed so very flat. All I need is some tool/machine, on wheels, to take the weight of the glass, while each pane is about 100kg. I am even thinking of making one...
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    DuraTherm Vertical Oval Tube Double Panel Designer Radiators 1800 tall from plumbnation

    Has anyone installed any of these radiators? Do they have a dedicated front and back side? I am thinking I may need to flip them over if their "input" and "output" do not match the piping.
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    Installing new fuseboards and certification

    Are the ones you are removing accessible or do they have hidden modules in ceiling and in other obscure places? The ones I am proposing are a direct switch replacement, no other parts or modules, or batteries required. They are the Quinetic...
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    Installing new fuseboards and certification

    OK, I will make sure we install a few lights and sockets to get going. We are stuck on silly things, colour and type of switches and can't decide. I like very much the Quinetic ones (the idea of controlling a switch from another switch without wiring - and that's how I have wired the house) but...
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    Installing new fuseboards and certification

    Got you! I definitely need the certificate and I'd rather pay a little bit extra to obtain a few more certificates as we go along, than be left "hanging" for months until the final light bulb gets fitted.
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    Installing new fuseboards and certification

    Could you please advise me on the process of obtaining a certificate for building control purposes. I am getting quotes to have new electricity supply and fuseboards installed into the utility room at a new build. I have not yet bought all the light fittings, sockets, switches etc. Kitchen has...
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    Pressurised hot water cylinder cold/hot water pressure

    I have had a pressurised hot water cylinder for many years, and when hot, the pressure on the hot taps was crazy. You could be in the shower for quite a long time before hot and cold pressures equalised. I am now at a new house looking to install at a new hot water cylinder system, and looking...
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    System or Regular boiler

    No, brand new system, so we can do what we like. Will ask if the Worcester Regular Boiler can automatically put out top heat if there is a large difference between thermostat and ambient, or if hot water is needed. Or maybe it does it on the difference in temperature between flow and return...
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    System or Regular boiler

    I have a feeling the "cool radiator" idea maybe suspect. Anyway in my system I want *at least* 65C water, as I already have experienced contamination with lower temps and a megaflo, so I will ask the installer to set flow temps to something suitable, eg 65C-70C or more. Or maybe there is a way...
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    System or Regular boiler

    I am being quoted by a few plumbers to install this system boiler, Worcester Bosch 8000 35kW. I have added up all the radiators, total 23, and they work out to about 31kW, so the 35kW seems to be OK. There is also a lot of pipes in the house, large runs are 28mm, small runs 22mm and 15mm to...
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    Vertical column radiators input and output direction

    I will make sure I ask then if they have a "back" and a "front" before I buy.
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    Vertical column radiators input and output direction

    Ahh, I did not think you could ever do that, mounting brackets, welds, paintwork etc Thanks!
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    Vertical column radiators input and output direction

    Sorry I do not understand this. All vertical rads I have looked at have "input" at bottom right and "output" at bottom left. One only has interchangeable input and output, both at bottom and top. So if my flow pipe happens to be on the left I will not be able to use most of these vertical...
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    brand new boiler, rads, all pipework..very very slow to warm rads

    Not a plumber, and am learning as I go, but if the flow is boiling hot and the return is just warm, and no radiators are even hot, then something is using up all that heat, where is it going? The hot water cylinder perhaps? Or, what if the pump is real slow and the flow does not reach remote...
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    Vertical column radiators input and output direction

    Thanks for the quick reply. Since I posted my message I checked the links below and now I see quite a few issues with flow in these radiators and heat reaching the top. So it seems we definitely want one that has the block fitted already, and we should also obey the indicated direction of...
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    Vertical column radiators input and output direction

    Hi guys, quick question, I am thinking of buying vertical column radiators, and it seems some require input on the left and output on the right, whereas some others it shows you can plumb them in almost any possible way (input at the bottom left or right or at the top left or right ). They all...
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    Sizing boiler

    OK, my latest calculation shows 28kW (heatadviser) without losses on pipes and without hot water cylinder. I suppose the 35kW would be OK. One more question if I may, is it possible that flow does not reach some remote radiators because it loses pressure at the previous ones? Or is it a case of...
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    Sizing boiler

    When selecting a gas boiler the gas people (who have been to quote) calculate how many radiators, how many watts each, and the hot water cylinder, and they come up with a required boiler wattage. They have, all, so far, settled on the Bosch 35kW boiler. I did some counting and I have 24...
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    Recommendations for online radiator calculator

    Trying to find a reliable radiator sizing calculator, many of them seem to be copies of each other, and some produce wide ranging values, do you know of a good one ?
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