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I'm planning to ditch VM's cable service and defect to Cityfibre as they've installed fibre to our street. Has anyone had any experience of CF refusing to mount their ONT inside of the house rather than on the interior of the external wall the fibre comes in at? My plan is to have the ONT in a...

Thanks. My opening is 950 for a single leaf door so I'm going to fit without top fixings. I could always add them at a later date if there's movement though I don't see why there should be.

Over the next few days I'm going to replace our old wooden backdoor with a composite. Instructions are clear enough, and I've watched a few YouTube videos so have enough knowledge to bodge with confidence. My only concern is drilling into the concrete lintel Now where I'm a little puzzled is...

When I stripped it down, turned out the "professional" pipe monkey decided those sealing fins weren't needed and cut them off. Must have made installing much less bother. Just to cap off the job, he stuffed a bit of newspaper in the gap and topped it off with some silicon. So, scrapped out the...

Plastic pipe from the toilet pan to the solid pipe. Seal has aged and needs replacing. What gloop would you recommend?

Top of a hill in Norfolk. Poorly insulated. Honestly looking forward to getting rid of the place but that's up to the executors. Good for you spending a fiver day.

Yer, been thinking about that. Pipe stat has a 5 degree hysteresis. If I set it to 10C, during cold snaps, I'm probably keeping the flow toastie but the return won't drop below 5. As it's effectively the pipe stat that's doing the controlling, I'm not really changing the frequency of the...

Yep, on the return

The wireless controller is a roomstat, but it is essentially an always on device calling for heat according to programmed temperatures. But I'm not trying to control the temperature of the house, just the pipework. Using an old fashioned bimetallic style room stat means there's an on and an...

Ok, so essentially I can replace the frost stat with a room stat so long as I can turn it down low enough. So, room stat down to 5C, pipe stat set to 10C. Room stat will make a demand for heat if the air temp is lower than 5C, pipe stat will shut the boiler down when the return pipe hits 10C.

Insurance was selected so there isn't a regular inspection clause but they require 12C or drain down. Insurers have no concept of weather compensation or frost stats. Current controller can do a 12C setback, and when I did that for 21/22, keeping the house at 12C for 5 months cost £2k5. Prices...

I'm planning to leave a house unoccupied over the winter and popping round to check on it is not an option thanks to the distance. Hot water is supplied on demand from the boiler, so that's not a worry. Mains water I'll turn off at the stop cock and leave taps open to allow for expansion so I'm...

So, I'm gonna set up an even higher end online audio equipment shop. Whatever anyone else is charging, I'll add another zero, rebox the stuff from the likes of CPC, and have it hand delivered. The fitting service will be extra. If I can just sell 100m of bell cable and a finish a 10 pack of 3A...

Well, well, well. They called me, brief chat, told them I was only doing a bit of research to establish ball park numbers and have no interest in buying. Two days later, I get an email. From their trade department. Stock reserved for 7 days. 20% deposit, balance on completion. Recommended...

Installing invertors in the attic is allowed but MCS rules say an interlinked smoke detector has to be fitted. Of course fitting in the attic is the easy and cheaper option since it only needs one AC isolator and saves on cable but it does make it awkward for the home owner to access...

"Good loft ladder" and "clear of junk" are surely a contradiction?

Nope. All quite straight forward. Equally, no product brochures, payback estimates, assumptions etc left for me to look through.

Well that was an interesting encounter. First off, I contacted MCS. "Both homeowners present" isn't a MCS requirement. Supplier has to abide by HIES' consumer code. Quick chat with them, and it's not their requirement. Only time they'd prefer another adult present would be when selling to a...

Oh I told that to HQ from the outset. Told the fella today too when he called to confirm the appointment. Be interesting to see if they follow the window sales route of sending a salesman out rather than a surveyor.

Well that made me giggle too. Those installers in Aberdenshire are 100+ miles away. Scotland is a big place. Thanks for the rule of thumb figures though :giggle: