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lift the whole board in front of the one the pipe goes thru to save any cutting, just split the tongues first witha wide chisel all the way along and lever it up along its length, pull out the nails that will remain in the joists. alter the ppipe below floor and re-lay and nail board...

did you ever drain the gallons of sentinel cleaner?

hand tight then half a turn-ish, jet blue on the small bit of pipe after the olive

why spend a tenner on perfectly adequate plasterboard toggles when you can spend hundreds on a joiner, plasterer, and decorator?

its easy heat with blowtorch until solder liquefies wiggle it off with grips paint flux on the joint whilst its still hot to clean any crap off put new fitting on with grips add more flux and add new solder wipe with flux as it cools

builder to remove cut and reinstate block, scaffolding if its above chest height

BG ballpark for that type of work would be between 9k and 11k, including granite work if applicable.

I believe BS5400 sums up this situation when it states "thou shalt not use reinforced concrete bridges as flues for gas appliances up to and including 70kW"

they can be found quite easily in Edinbugh I can assure you.

Dont install boilers I take it? OP - read this http://www.idhee.org.uk/ExceptionsGuide.pdf Contact the environmental protection department at your local council and ask them to advise them of the scenario, as it would be they who enforce a complaint made by your neighbour. From the...

what kind of boiler is being fitted?

just a note to the OP for those who suggest that the radiators mentioned can be fitted for £200 http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=off&biw=992&bih=500&tbm=shop&q=mhs+matrix+vertical+radiator&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq= also, you are entitled to homecare 200 which extends the...

Why confuse the thread with ****ing contest style trivia like this? Will the op now expect a timeframe of 1 month to a year as acceptable for a domestic heating system? Its weird how 'advice' on this forum works

this thread suffered from contributions based on little to no understanding of the Scottish government central heating scheme.

I dont actually think I could physically work slowly enough to spread a 12 rad heating system out over a month, each to their own etc.

:roll: I must question the sanity of some posters when they think that a month for a heating installation is good/normal/acceptable.

i agree, installing these things anywhere near bridges is just dangerous lolz

agile, you quote inexplicably low prices for boiler changes all the time. the OP stated his old boiler packed in, and he had this one fitted, thus existing pipework and rads. A couple of manual vents and a bit more time spend filling and venting including shutting down rads etc will most...

thats pretty cool you could do it in 22mm probably, end feed elbows and tees, soldering it together, and "wing back elbows" to help fix it to the wall. plumbers merchants like pts, grahams, plumbcentre etc would probably be cheapest

a clever wind up is one thing, a wind up that just makes you look like an idiot is another area of a rectangle is primary school stuff tbh