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Want to show me links to news articles for prosecutions where installations were compliant? Thought not! Typical protectionist trade, wanting 600 a day and in this case, not getting a penny! Enjoy christmas, its going to be Lidl turkey this year instead of Marks and Spencer goose!

Go ahead smart @rse, as far as I have read, it meets all the current regs as published. 2 peoples work? I managed it solo! As for the neighbours complaining, not much chance of that! I wouldnt pay 600 a day for a lawyer or an accountant, never mind someone to thread a stainless steel tube up...

The Lica fill was completed by shaking the flue once the register plate was in place and pouring down either side of the flue from the top, once it had been attached to the pot hanger? took a while, but hardly rocket science? All of this didnt seem to affect the electrical, gas and plumbing...

there needs to be a competing professional body in the marketplace. All well and good but any other trade doesnt seem to get away with robbery and neither should hetas. I still think it had more to do with supplied parts and being unable to scam me out of cash in ramping up massively the...

I still havent seen a single prosecution across the trades (bar gas, interference with transco network, and electricity, fiddling meters) for diy work undertaken that is fully compliant.And both of those examples are non compliant. I will tell you why the council wont touch me. If they prosecute...

But would BC have bothered if he hadn't set fire to his house? I return to my original question, Can BC prosecute if you as a DIYer complete a fully compliant install? If so, show me evidence they have. Would there be the political will at the council to prosecute someone for completing a fully...

If he set his house on fire, I am willing to take a guess that his install wasnt compliant!

I didnt bother in the end. 150 quid to get some jobsworth from building control to look at a register plate, see I have done a good job, and sign it off. He cant take off the register plate due to the lica backfill, nor will mr jobsworth be getting on the roof. "Could get fined" Could, with...

Back filled with lica fill, which kept the flue lining very tight in the stack. Used a flue hangar cowl with 2x clamp at the top => no need to frig round with flaunching, which was fine on existing pot. Finished all work in 6 hours, 2 hours to fit flue,backfill, attach to pot hangar, rest to...

This misses the point. I wont listen to trades whining about lack of work when they are cheating themselves out of it by doubling up the cost of materials. 10% for ordering, handling etc I dont begrudge, 100% increase is downright theft. Local solid fuel engineers lost out on a days labour...

Cheers for the feedback, looks like i had a bad run then... the 1200 was purely for the lining, not including stove and stove pipe. :shock: We have noticed our draw is blinking awesome now (8m flue) so much so we may have to get a flue damper now! I was drawing all the smoke from my smoke...

Not at all, just genuinely curious as to whether I was unlucky or wehether 500 labour and being billed at double for materials is a regular quote for an easy 2 hour job!

Off the HETAS website via an internet search! Why did I fit a flue lining? Unfortunately, a lot of @rse talked by HETAS qualified engineers regarding the "necessity" of flue lining means that upon sale of a house, people seeing a simple unlined flue with a register plate as a means to try...

Err, migfht want to look into incentives for PV panels though... about to be cut from 42p to pretty much half that!

Can you not make some circular cuts if they will be hidden by other units to accommodate the pipework? I used a spotlight cutter to solve this problem when installing my ikea kitchen, as they dont leave a service gap behind the units!

OK, thanks for that! looks as if I am going to have to dig deep in the pockets then! :wink:

I have an excel spreadsheet I made for calculating the temperature of a room with time, with lots of input variables (building air changes per hour, rooms size, wall U value, window size, window U value, ceiling u value etc) its pretty basic, doesnt take account of thermal mixing (I am an...

[/url] The other problem I seem to be having is that the slab is uber, and I mean UBER absorbative.... its not like a normal slab that will suck a certain amount of moisture, it is like a sponge. 5 litres of stabalizing solution didnt go very far at all, as by the time I poured it onto the...

I had a full periodic on every circuit in the house done after my DIY rewire. Wouldnt have done it any other way. Only problems were on circuits i HADNT modified.

just finally got my stainless flue installed, after deciding to DIY it after being lied to on 4 seperate occasions by 4 seperate HETAS engineers. Net result of untruths being said HETAS engineers talking themselves out of a days work. Engineers 1,2,3 all insisted that a lined flue was the...