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I would hope so! I have no idea how I could tell - would they not leak?

Yes he is! Armed with the knowledge supplied in this thread I send him a polite but firm missive - he didn't resist!

I assume you are talking about the length of the pipes dropping down from the radiators - most of them are OK to be fair - apart from the one above which he has lazily not cut to the correct length. I will insist that he adds a few more clips as he goes along as well. I'm pretty annoyed that I...

It doesn't look the neatest and I'm not sure why some of the pipes are so far down into the void, like in this pic - he should have cut the downpipes closer to the joists. But if they are lagged then I won't be too worried. To be fair to the guy he's agreed that they should be lagged and he's...

It's not bad really - some tight gaps in the dwarf walls to squeeze through if you're not on 1950s post-war rations! There is a strong smell of bitumen down there. He should've done it as he went along - would've been far easier.

I take it that's not a compliment!

Indeed there is - seem Scotland's regulations look identical as far as I can make out: http://www.gov.scot/Resource/0046/00460094.pdf

I'm in Scotland, but I assume there are similar regulations here.

Two outside radiators - wow! That's going to negate having a more efficient condensing boiler! Actually he left a leak as well - he left a stopcock dripping in the loft and it started dripping through a light fitting a day later - I had to sort that myself as he'd gone away for Christmas by then!

I'd say 50M is a low estimate - there are 9 radiators serviced on the ground floor. I agree that I must be wasting a lot of heat under the floor! I will get back on his case and insist that he finishes the job I paid him for!

Here are some snaps I took the other day - I just remembered I have them on my phone!

Your underfloor space is much smaller than mine and it doesn't seem to have insulation under the boards - just rememebred I took some snaps at the weekend so I will put some up.

To clarify, there are air bricks in the wall below floor level, to ventilate the underfloor void.

While the pipes are below rooms that are being used, there is a layer of knauf insulation between them and the rooms - the heat will mostly be lost through the underfloor vents - I would say very little of it would find its way to the rooms above.

We have a suspended timber floor which has vents all round the house, so it's a cold space. The floor itself has Knauf roll insulation between the joists. Underneath the insulation (i.e. in the cold space, outside the thermal envelope of the house!) we have uninsulated plastic central heating...

I understand there should be a temperature difference because the heat should be 'lost' through the radiators - is that the right way to think about it? If it's really 7 degrees, what could be done to remedy that? Most of the pipes are in the void under the floor, so outside the insulated...

Just had our CH replaced (Boiler, rads, pipes - the works) in our house which has a suspended timber floor. After this was done, we had insulation installed underfloor - Knauf wool between the joists with plastic netting stapled to the joists. The CH engineer was supposed to lag the pipes under...