What we all working on this week ?

[king of pipes]

I have a insurance job to try and rescue a poorly installed quad shower the customer wants to save the tiling if possible and has a few spare so fingers crossed it may work , the loss adjuster allowed em £1500 that will just about cover materials. Kop

 

[king of pipes]

From the Eurocarparts ebay shop, £19.99 wit free p&p and it had a 20% off when you use POCKET20 discount code on the checkout page.

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Yep thats the one mate makes servicing that bit easier and more controllable
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Earth pins mate. Holding the insulation in place. After 9 years would be surprised if they weren’t down to little stubs.
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What litre is yours mate?

No mate they were in a state bud cleaned up fine , electrodes were a bit bent tried cleaning them bud and straightening em but i changed them in the end they needed doing in all honesty the new spark electrode is different shape now.

My power washer is the 8 litre one H not super powerful but ideal for these jobs and controllable no need to use the customers water .

 

[Harvest Fields]

I’m chilling here this weekend. Lovely weather this morning.

 

[king of pipes]

Looks nice H where's that ? I am off to Lincoln next Friday for a long weekend enjoy your self mate cheers 🍺 😉 kop

 

[Harvest Fields]

Looks nice H where's that ? I am off to Lincoln next Friday for a long weekend enjoy your self mate cheers 🍺 😉 kop

Newcastle mate. Grandads 80th.

 

[Aquarius]

Newcastle mate. Grandads 80th.

I was going to say Newcastle, but didn’t want to look a tit and it be like London 😂
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self employment bud is where you should be aiming , i worked for companies for 30 + years making others wealthy before i took the plunge its now 9 years and haven't looked back always busy and my own boss jobs get done right,

Where did you find best for experience mate?

 

[king of pipes]

I was going to say Newcastle, but didn’t want to look a tit and it be like London 😂
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Where did you find best for experience mate?

You just pick it up mate as you go along I did a few manufacturers courses you just get to know the faults on certain boilers, it's often a process of elimination the flow charts in the manual along with the fault codes , it's worth learning how to use a multimeter property aswell , you tube is also useful if you're struggling and as a learning aid . Regards Kop

 

[Scott_D]

Thats about right got mine at the Range store

KOP was it you that rigged up one of those pump up bottles to add inhibitor to filling loops?

 

[king of pipes]

KOP was it you that rigged up one of those pump up bottles to add inhibitor to filling loops?

Yes mate you can do that I just use the plant spray type from a garden centre

 

[Pickwickpick]

Yes mate you can do that I just use the plant spray type from a garden centre

Does the filling loop bolt straight onto the sprayer handle or is there a fitting/fittings you use?

 

[SimonG]

First fix for this later in the week, plus a home made towel warmer.
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Look at the joists on that 🤣
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Look at the joists on that 🤣

 

[Jim Goodenough]

I’m chilling here this weekend. Lovely weather this morning.

Geordie land, The Toon...... lived there for 30 yrs
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First fix for this later in the week, plus a home made towel warmer.
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Coal fired?

Look at the joists on that 🤣
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Look at the joists on that 🤣

12" or more Simon?

 

[SimonG]

About 10", benefit of working in an old house 👍

Real mismatch though. 2 houses knocked through into one. 1 side running an old oil heatslave and the other a wood burner running 4 rads.
Taking the wood burner out of service and bringing 2 22mm copper pipes from combi side to run the 4 rads.

 

[king of pipes]

Does the filling loop bolt straight onto the sprayer handle or is there a fitting/fittings you use?

No mate remove the standard Lance what these come with the attach a piece of clear polythene tube with a jubilee clip , the connection to the filling loop or rad is a short length of 15 mm pipe warm the ploythene tube insert the tube again fit a jubilee clip then adapt to suit your application. Cheers kop 😉

 

[Pickwickpick]

No mate remove the standard Lance what these come with the attach a piece of clear polythene tube with a jubilee clip , the connection to the filling loop or rad is a short length of 15 mm pipe warm the ploythene tube insert the tube again fit a jubilee clip then adapt to suit your application. Cheers kop 😉

Thanks, that should save some time on some jobs. Will have a riffle through of my boxes of tubing from my fish keeping days at the weekend, should have something in there that would be do the trick.

 

[king of pipes]

A bathroom modification for a elderly gent with a dodgy ticker, believe it or not I installed this 17 years ago when it was first built , I can't believe it was so long ago removed the bath, tiling ect and found loose plasterwork and cement render which had to come off revealing a couple of nasty cracks. These were ground out the whole wall sealed with SBR and repaired with Fisher resin the area was then dot and dabbed with new plasterboard , formed a new boxing to house the first fix shower pipework again plasterboarded ready to fit Multipanel later on , now have a 5 day break so till later chaps 😁😁. Kop

 

[Pickwickpick]

That Fisher resin can be an absolute life saver. Used it for the first time a couple of years back when I was trying to fit a vertical rad onto a wall that was made of cheese, none of the various fixings were secure enough so ended up setting threaded rods into the wall using the resin which worked a treat.

 

[Scott_D]

started first fixing the upstairs of a house refurb. 3 heating zones and secondary return on H/W.

 

[SimonG]

Nothing as exciting. First fixing that barrel sink and copper towel warmer.
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That'll do.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Finished this one off but the toilet flush pipe has a crack in it do had to do a temp repair (silicon) for now as it means gutting the wall to do a new frame

 

[SimonG]

Hurrah, its finally arrived and into its final position. It's the slimline so it's only 165kg.

 

[Pickwickpick]

Bet that was fun to move! How many of you does it take to lug that around?

 

[SimonG]

Bet that was fun to move! How many of you does it take to lug that around?

Just myself. Plenty of practice and........

 

[Pickwickpick]

Just myself. Plenty of practice and....

Nice! Its amazing what you can do by yourself with a little bit of ingenuity and no other options.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Hurrah, its finally arrived and into its final position. It's the slimline so it's only 165kg.

lever valves for the pump ?

 

[Jim Goodenough]

started first fixing the upstairs of a house refurb. 3 heating zones and secondary return on H/W.
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Is that Hep2o Scott?