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Post by steveeb on Mar 1, 2016 13:06:32 GMT
Bleeding and balancing bleedin' radiators!
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Post by MartinT on Mar 1, 2016 13:19:27 GMT
Horrible job, always involves black water going onto pale coloured carpet!
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Post by John on Mar 1, 2016 13:21:54 GMT
Lol
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Post by steveeb on Mar 1, 2016 13:33:26 GMT
Worst of it is, now the damn heating system has stopped working altogether. Why-O-why won't women understand that "best leave it alone" does not indicate an unwillingness to improve our creature comforts, simply a practical resignation conditioned by painful previous experience.
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Post by MartinT on Mar 1, 2016 13:36:13 GMT
Things rarely put themselves right, is the opposing maxim.
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Post by pre65 on Mar 1, 2016 14:46:45 GMT
Worst of it is, now the damn heating system has stopped working altogether. Why-O-why won't women understand that "best leave it alone" does not indicate an unwillingness to improve our creature comforts, simply a practical resignation conditioned by painful previous experience. |
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Post by MikeMusic on Mar 1, 2016 15:07:14 GMT
We're having problems with our wonder system.
Brand new in 2009 when the house was refurbed.
Last year the good plumber we found told us there was a huge amount of rubbish in the system.
New heat exchanger then, this year pressure keeps dropping which he thinks shows another leak caused by the rubbish.
Balancing radiators - something we aspire too !
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Post by speedysteve on Mar 1, 2016 19:31:43 GMT
We don't have radiators:)
Might need to bleed and balance at the manifold some day though.
It's fun watching the flow meters (one for each room) open and indicate, as a thermostat in each room calls for heat..
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Post by MikeMusic on Mar 1, 2016 21:40:07 GMT
If we'd had builders with brains (oxymoron ?) we would have had underfloor heating
Probably just as well we didn't as they didn't cope well with anything post 1980 design
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Post by speedysteve on Mar 2, 2016 11:42:12 GMT
You can get pretty natty looking aluminium extrusion skirting board heating. I've not experienced it but they say its close to UFH. Much easier to retro fit to concrete floors.
If we'd bought a renovation project, we would have seriously researched it.
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Post by Sovereign on Mar 3, 2016 11:58:35 GMT
If we'd had builders with brains (oxymoron ?) we would have had underfloor heating Oi !!!! Up until September last year I had been running my building company for 15 years. But before that I was in post grad research after my two degrees in science. I'll let you off this time, next time I'll have to give you a wee slapping  |
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Post by MikeMusic on Mar 3, 2016 12:10:38 GMT
Oh I wish we could have had you do our refurb.
Decent printers are also very hard to find and we're all tarred with the same mucky brush.
I do what I say. They say what they will do and don't
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Post by Sovereign on Mar 3, 2016 12:23:31 GMT
I hear disappointment in builders all the time,there are a lot of cracking building firms out there but a lot of shite ones. There are many reasons why. I think one of the main reasons is most builders are not businessman . The building firms that are run properly are usually more expensive than the others and that frightens away the client because clients often want the cheapest price they can get. It's an interesting business because if you do residential work you are in someone's home ripping it apart , The husband is at work and often you're dealing with the wife and the children all day long, it can get very emotional and clients themselves often run out of money .
I know there are programs such as cowboy builders but in 15 years I've seen way more cowboy clients than Cowboy builders , but that doesn't make good television programmes .
The building industry is a funny one it is slowly sorting itself out but it is taking a jolly long time meanwhile there are a lot of people, builders and clients, out there who were getting burnt and it's such a shame .
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Post by MikeMusic on Mar 3, 2016 13:38:45 GMT
The guys I had were just about builders.
Thank goodness for Building Reg's Inspector
Quite a lot done well, too much done badly
Too much truth bending and a few lies
We should have shouted louder, earlier in the build and threatened to throw them off site if they didn't toe the line.
Next time, if there is one I'd be much better equiped to deal with them
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Post by Sovereign on Mar 3, 2016 20:07:40 GMT
That's such a shame. And it's so hard as they are in your private home. This is where we would win all the time every time. Honestly to run the good building company is so easy because you just have to look at the companies that do things so bad and be excellent where they are weak and you've got a recipe for success.
Very interestingly we did a job for a chap called Ritchie from wigwam , I can't remember his forum name . But he is mates with speedySteve our horn loving member here
I just got a call from a random architect in London saying that we have been recommended I knock on the door walking to the lounge and see these 9 foot horns dominating their living room . And class A amplifiers everywhere.
If anyone wants any advice on anything to do with construction just send me a message I'll be always happy to help and advise
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Post by steveeb on Mar 4, 2016 8:03:57 GMT
...woken at 6.00am by my neighbour's new Subaru starting up  Which I can accept, but it's the ten minutes warming up while he smokes a fag, burbling away under the bedroom window that really boils our kettle. We have a shared drive between the houses where the car is parked and it creates such an efficient amplifier I'm considering using it as a model for a horn mouth. Might it be sporting were I to suggest that when he wakes me, I'll go downstairs and padlock the gates at the front? If he can get out before, fair enough. It's going to need a word but it won't be a quiet one because he's 6' 13" and I'll need to shout to be heard up there. |
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Post by MikeMusic on Mar 4, 2016 8:46:48 GMT
That's such a shame. And it's so hard as they are in your private home. This is where we would win all the time every time. Honestly to run the good building company is so easy because you just have to look at the companies that do things so bad and be excellent where they are weak and you've got a recipe for success. Very interestingly we did a job for a chap called Ritchie from wigwam , I can't remember his forum name . But he is mates with speedySteve our horn loving member here I just got a call from a random architect in London saying that we have been recommended I knock on the door walking to the lounge and see these 9 foot horns dominating their living room . And class A amplifiers everywhere. If anyone wants any advice on anything to do with construction just send me a message I'll be always happy to help and advise Seriously I'd like a lot of advice please. We have some work that may be serious as well as insulation and draught proofing work that may be in front of some more serious problems. Very happy to entertain you with music ! PM coming |
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Post by MikeMusic on Mar 4, 2016 8:52:52 GMT
...woken at 6.00am by my neighbour's new Subaru starting up Which I can accept, but it's the ten minutes warming up while he smokes a fag, burbling away under the bedroom window that really boils our kettle. We have a shared drive between the houses where the car is parked and it creates such an efficient amplifier I'm considering using it as a model for a horn mouth. Might it be sporting were I to suggest that when he wakes me, I'll go downstairs and padlock the gates at the front? If he can get out before, fair enough. It's going to need a word but it won't be a quiet one because he's 6' 13" and I'll need to shout to be heard up there. I went detached as soon as I could. Then the road we were on became a rat run for the M25 Moved again and the estate we were on became a building site with house after house being knocked down and rebuilt by developers one after the other. The place opposite (my bedroom window) was massively extended 3 times. One was an 18 month build. There was the tracked digger being unloaded around 4.30am and then the builder saying it was out of his control with the neighbour looking like a frightened rabbit. Shared drive is almost like being in a semi. I see a Suburu most mornings, well I say see, I *hear* the thing, louder than anything else on the road. Ask the guy politely it might work. |
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Post by steveeb on Mar 4, 2016 9:38:00 GMT
We're detached Mike, with the drive running between the houses to our garages at the rear. He's a nice guy and we get on fine, just needs a word as you say.
Detached is the greatest musical upgrade you can make!
My step-daughter bought one of the first built houses at the entrance to a new development. Bad move for the first two years but her son loves the Dig-Digs.
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Post by MikeMusic on Mar 4, 2016 9:53:58 GMT
Subarus are noisy. Likely why he bought it !
Fantastic for a young boy to have all those builders and that kit around.
Better for your step daughter when the build is over.
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