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It’s not “normal” to run it just off the immersion heater is it? Is that only because electric is ££££/kWH or some other reason?

Can I do that and heat it with electricity? That would be amazing, I’ll do some googling

Sorry to hijack thread - can you explain more about why you can put an 11-34 11 speed cassette on the 10 speed version of these please and thank you

Yes

Interesting. I have an electrician coming for other reasons so I'll ask him about that too, thank you!

Sounds sensible!

I now don't have mains gas and have a completely crap electric shower and not really sure what to do about it!

Interesting re Viesmann. Bullet dodged. Agree that 50kw is probably overkill - it was a small house with a loft conversion and so there wasn't much room for a big cylinder+expansion tank. It was an unorthodox solution but has been brilliant.

careful not to snap them!

Can you bend the hidden clips on the offending sockets so they are tighter stuck to the wall?

From my limited experience, relating entirely to combi boilers:

• Every heating engineer has a brand preference and good reasons why you should never go anywhere else.
  
• Worcester, Vaillant, Viesmann all seem to be highly rated (and Baxi, above!)
  
• Worcester had the highest warranty (I think it was 10, upgraded to 12 if you got their fitter) although warranties pointless unless you follow their service plan.
  
• I strongly considered Viesmann because various reviews said they are objectively better (though I can’t remember why, maybe something to do with the heat exchanger itself?). I didn’t get Viesmann as they are newer to the UK and so apparently have fewer engineers —> longer call out time etc. and they didn’t have one as powerful
  
• I then got a completely overpowered boiler (50Kw)- deliberately - for reasons that made no sense to me they seem to rank boilers by how many radiators they can run, but a boiler that can run 15 rads has a higher flow rate (litres per minute of hot water at a particular temp coming out of the taps) than a boiler that can run fewer radiators. As a normal human being I wanted a piping hot shower with pressure that could strip the skin from my flesh and (the advantage of a combi) never run out. I don’t think any combi can be as good as a high pressure system, but the one we got was pretty fantastic tbh if expensive (Worcester Bosch greenstar Style or Life (can’t remember) 50kW - 20.3 litres/minute at some temperature can’t remember.
  
• To accommodate that, and because everything was being ripped out anyway, I also had a new wider bore water main installed (water pressure from street was great, so it was worth doing), and a new wider bore gas main installed (they were moving the pipes anyway so wider bore wasn’t a big deal) to make sure the boiler got the maximum juice possible.
  
  

Result - two showers at the same time possible, no more shouting downstairs “please stop doing the washing up” etc.

I have been told:

• not to ever get LAP (which I think is screwfix own brand).
  
• the screwless ones are much harder to fit and make look good - harder to get straight, harder to get flush (can attest this is the case and caused a lot of arguments).
  
• slim depth back boxes are also harder.
  
  

Next time I do this I will find a more expensive / better quality branded version with screws showing.

Visible screws is less visually problematic to me than wonky / misaligned sockets

Have these forks sold?

I think you can lodge a claim that stops them being able to fold.

But you will spend some money, a lot of time and stress and they'll probably get away with it anyway. If you have a strong constitution go for it - otherwise leave them bad google reviews and try to move on with your life

I said I was trying Brootzo. The lights arrived, they are great, but one is the wrong metal and they are being awful about sending out the right one. Hard avoid, even though they’re v good value for money, not worth the bother.

The weather up there looks fantastic (unseasonably so). Beautiful photos as ever - really close now!

awesome - best pub bike ever

Ha. Thank you, I’ll try to learn some Bulgarian

No problem! I can try to find some photos of my amateur process.

I assumed Scotland too

You’ve got a potential customer https://www.lfgss.com/comments/16740794/

Both of those look great, thank you. I can’t find them for sale anywhere though!

I used this stuff - it was eye wateringly expensive so I nearly found something else but it was honestly excellent - I cut out quite a big bit of rot and built it up with that and additional wood.

Beautiful house - awesome stone, good job. My house has similar windows, they look great but they are a nightmare to repaint, and even worse if they need repairing! Just masking them took forever…

I want double sided spd pedals (ie spd both sides) for a touring bike - I want them to look vaguely “classic” and definitely be silver. I’ve seen various mtb pedals, shimano saint, dmr v-twin, but they don’t come in silver, and tbh look too modern/mountain-bike-y.

Any suggestions? It’s most important they are double sided, so if I can’t find any it will be shimano SPDs but they won’t look great :/