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An update. Went back and had another look. If we get the store cool then it seems to work OK - modulates pump and burner to maintain 15˚C T across the coil. There's a disappointingly high T between coil and store - so it soon starts running out of headroom and throttles back. But it's working as...

Or the direct BBC link https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8zpj7zz5do While that is sad, it shows how "the Amercan way" is getting pervasive over here - it was only a matter of time. So bloke waves a long pole around near power lines and gets zapped - and call isn't for better understanding...

You mean, like no-one would make a prank call for whatever reason. Not heard of it being done to cause power cuts, but then we don't have DNOs turning off the power willy-nilly (yet.)

OK, so it works for you. That doesn't mean it works for everyone - and as I described above, it cannot work for us unless you can change the laws of physics.

And now I remember ... The first episode of Peak Practice had Dr. Kerruish (Kevin Whately) come across an incident where a child had got himself fried in (IIRC) a substation. I found the plotline where he just phoned up, asked for a circuit to be turned off, and the DNO just did it ... a bit...

Indeed. Not to mention the new game of "get the power turned off with a prank call" !

Sticking with potted joints, as long as the potting compound (at least partially) surrounds the screw heads - then the screws cannot work loose. That only leaves creep - and I remain "unconvinced" thats a problem given the number of screwed joints in a typical house installation (manynof which...

Unless doing so changes the laws of physics, then I know exactly what I'd get : No room would have a stable temperature, for the previously mentioned reasons. Shut the dining room door, dining room gets over warm and upstairs rooms go cold. Open that door, dining room goes cold, upstairs rooms...

I'll add that if your objection to room by room control is inadequate flow rate to satisfy your heat source ... then complain to the manufacturers selling products fit for last century.

The flip side of microzoning is ... comfort. Our house has variable heat load in several rooms. Downstairs, the main room is hard to heat with door open as the heat buggers off upstairs - but it has to stay open.much of the time so the menagerie can come and go. But close the door and it gets...

Pretty certain it's part of the original build - things like the cross joists matching the main joists, both in timber and workmanship style. And if you look closely, there's a couple of boards marked that have the bottom part of the groove removed so they will lift out. I can still get under...

So not a daft idea then ? I was assuming I'll need a drain point, won't be hard to arrange. Any suggestions on sealing between duct and chimney pot ? Oh, and Santa would have a hard time as none of our chimneys still go anywhere. We just leave a window open for him.

We currently have a through the wall fan in the bathroom which is ... "rubbish". Apart from performance and noise (to the point where SWMBO will switch it off before showering), it's at the wrong end of the bathroom - as far from the shower as it's possible to get. I'm thinking of putting an...

Well whatever it was, it's gone now :rolleyes:

It was a very tight squeeze for the flue - anything bigger would eat into something structural (either the blocks of a block & beam floor, or the steels supporting it.) Others I got to look at it either wanted to run the flue through someone else's space, or put the boiler in the kitchen (which...

We've just had a Keston S30 installed in our rental flat - it was the only option that worked for flue routing, and even that was tricky. There's something I can't find answers to in the manual - and I note the online manual is an older version (04/2023) than the printed on (09/2024) one that...

I suspect most failures under surge conditions are down to "poor quality" electronics - everything built down to a price, no headroom in component specs, that sort of thing. I do have experience with stuff getting fried - but SPDs as currently fitted would have done ... absolutely nothing at...

Some suppliers say yes for the thicker boards. The problem is most suppliers only have thinner boards.

Which is largely a result of 2 things : "Levelling up" where other countries are enjoying better living standards. And part of that is less exploitation as ethics influences businesses via customer pressure. Worse exploitation where customer pressure isn't happening. For example, most of our...

You couldn't be more wrong there. Yes it us another tax - but it's set locally, collected locally, and mostly goes to support local services. For whatever value of "local" applies to your council area. As such, it is effectively a tax for local services used by a household. Yes, that is a...