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Thanks Exedon I appreciate your reply. I think your opening sentence "If its regarded as a commercial kitchen" is the bit I am trying to get confirmation. We do not consider it a commercial kitchen in terms of its use. Does the existence of a "commercial appliance" alone dictate it is a...

We run a community village hall and have a large kitchen provided for the use of hirers. This includes a Lincat SLR9 gas cooker which I believe is a 23.8Kw appliance with all six burners and oven on max. This was installed some 10 years ago and has passed all subsequent Gas Safety inspections as...

Thanks, As I suspected. Looks like the control gear has had it. Yes I am looking at LED ones whilst awaiting a reply to my post.

We have a maintained luminaire outside the back door of our community building (circular wall mounted with built in battery and 28w CFL Lamp Knightsbridge TPR28). This is operated along with other external normal luminaires from a switch in the lobby. It has recently stopped working and I have...

Can anyone give advice on a good quality gun grade glazing putty/compound. I have a very large mahogany full height window in my garden room, which needs the external glazing beads replacing. The originals are triangular section and have warped and split and I have got water coming in when it...

Thanks yes that's certainly an option as mentioned in my original post. I believe this may be the standard setup in most installations.

No its a very leaky 17th Century community hall LOL. It's currently under provisioned at 40Kw as the boiler stuggles to get the whole building up to temperature.

We are about to accept a quote for installing two 2 x Vaillant Eco Tec Plus 630 system boilers to replace our failing Ideal Concord CXS/SD 40 which has had more parts than triggers broom has had heads!! I believe most tandem boiler setups are controlled by a single timeswitch/controller and...

Thanks Muggles. What they should do and what they actually do are two different things. I do not doubt that they have done a calculation of some sort and have specified the "correct" radiators. What I am trying to do is to decide on which quote to go with based on the initial requirements i.e...

I am sure this question has been asked a thousand times but when I search for radiator outputs all I get are calculators that work out what size radiators I need for a specific room volume. We have 5 large (2000m x 600 approx) very old steel double panel radiators without convection fins in our...

Thank you I understand what you are saying about giving advice and Forum Rules. We have no intention of undertaking repairs ourselves, (it would most certainly void our buildings insurance) but if any Heating Engineer on this forum has experience with these boilers or this type of fault I can...

In our Village Hall we have a Ideal Concord CXS/SD40/H central heating boiler. This was installed new when we had an extension built and the existing boiler needed upgrading. The Mechanical Engineers advising the architect insisted that we had a conventional cast iron combustion chamber boiler...

Thank you flameport. To clarify a few points you made I appreciate that you can charge any EV from any charger but larger EVs like the Tesla have much bigger batteries so the charge period from a smaller output charger would mean it didn't reach the 80% charge in 9 hours which I believe is the...

Firstly thank you all for responding. There are some good suggestions and some very valid points made in your responses. The problem is we don't yet know which car we want yet although the VW ID3 which has a 58KWh battery seems to fit our bill, However we wanted to future proof the install...

I am looking for views and advice on installing an EV charging point. I will get an electrician or company to install it but it but wanted thoughts on the best installation method. I have a three phase supply to my house and recently had a three phase smart meter fitted and the mains fuses...

I'm not sure what the Neostat?? in the hall is doing. Is it directly controlling the boiler or is the first floor managed as a zone with a seperate zone valve controlling CH water flow to all the rads. Are you using NeoAirs (wireless) or NeoStats (hard wired). Was this installed like this when...

Hi Lightning24 You do not state in your post how the first floor radiators are controlled. Is there a single zone valve on the first floor attached to a Neostat which controls all the radiators or do they all have thermostatic radiator valves? As others have said above, the problem with...

Many thanks Sparkwright. All good points which I'll include. Hopefully new timber will be MDF profile (architrave and door stops) so they will come ready primed but need nail holes filling and sanding. Appreciate your reply Fozzie

Thanks, I had originally put two coats in my draft spec but wasn't sure of covering power of modern acrylics Appreciate the reply and confirmation Fozzie

I am trying to write a specification for re-decorating the inside of our Village Hall Annex in order to get quotes. it was built in 2010 and looking a bit tired and there is some settlement cracks, loose plaster around doorways and holes from recent plumbing and wiring changes including surface...