... If it's recently felled and going to be used green, fine. Otherwise, take care. Correct me if I'm wrong, but AFAIK oak should be cut into slabs and stacked...
... I let four of my neighbours connect into one of my chambers for free. They did all the work, it cost me nothing and the payoff in good neighbourly ...
Forest of Dean, on the side of the Wye Valley, about half way between
Chepstow and Monmouth
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... You don't have much experinece of this stuff do you? Just avoid the push-fit fittings and use comprerssion. Plastic looks garbage anyway, do only good in...
... responses from the forum. ... the only failure I've had (not even a very serious one) was where I was connecting plastic to copper. My fault, as I hadn't...
... But end feed fittings are super cheap. Copper is cheaper overall. Only use plastic where it is necessary, like threading, use compression joints not...
... And copper done badly looks even worse..! I have a 22mm tee to 15mm reducer to 10mm reducer in our central heating and its one long lump of solder from end...
... Which can be heavily negated if you have push-fit failure. I have had quite a lot of Hep20 fail on me. Speedfit I never looked at at all. I don't use the...
I know this topic comes around every so often, but..... We used professional heating engineers to fit our house. They are very good at what they do. (One of...
At risk of prolonging this argument (which will boil down to personal preference in the end), and as someone proficient in copper pipe soldering (I think I did...
... So does anything. Look at brickwork. ... The pipes yes, I see none in the push-fit fittings at all. Far too prone to failure to other fittings around....
... personal ... It is not preference or opinion. Push-fit fittings are the most unreliable fittings on the market – FACT!!!! Ask anyone who fits a lot...
Push-fit, soldered, compression ... plastic, copper ... but ... where does pex-pipe come into this with no joins except at fittings & manifolds, all in...
Just a reminder on how to join to join the UK_Selfbuild group - been asked to re-post this for people who wish to send to colleagues etc. The UK_Selfbuild...
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I’ve tried, boy have I tried to stay out of this revisit to this old chestnut… My more recent observations based on ‘advanced?’ DIY for the last 20...
Nigel Went looking for your pix - though I don't need convincing being a very satisfied user of push-fit style fittings - and got this Forbidden You don't have...
the links all worked fine for me ... Incidentally, we seem to talk as though plastic pipe is all the same ... and yet, AFAIK, Hep2O & (eg) Wirsbo & Speedfit...
Nigel - 'just wondered how quietly your plumbing worked ... the long runs without joins & the easy bends must help reduce turbulence ... but it looks like...
... The pipe inserts reduce pipe bore size. People tend to overlook this. Also, these inserts can act as points to acumulate solids or sludge when in the...
Chris, The plumbing has not been used in anger yet so no idea of noise levels. The 1st floor plumbing is in the floor screed with a further 200mm of concrete...
'might be of interest ... http://www.gasapplianceguide.co.uk/WIRSBO%20Smal%20Area%20Packs.htm not sure about the prices ... good or bad ... any views ??? Chris...
I tried http://photos.corbenic.co.uk/ (note the slash at the very end) and got straight in. Without the slash it declares me forbidden. Rum business this ...
Nigel - thanks ... interesting ... btw, I still visit your 'site to look at the photo's every now & then, to see how this & that have been done ... very...
'thought thermal stores were best taken to 90+degC for best efficiency ... certainly, that's what we aim to do - indeed, we'll go for 95 if we can, and size...
We did raft and upper floor with 2 layers of A193 (plus 22mm bar for the "beams" and 16mm/other for edge ties) and 35N mix (same for walls). Power floated...
