Owning your own home

We have the same boiler, I'm very interested to see how this pans out! Except ours has a stupid wireless programmer thing snapped into the front of the panel which is total dogshit.

I have a mechanical programmer, I looked at removing that and decided to leave it in place set to "always on".

My understanding - which I encourage you to check- is as follows:

The boiler turns on if these two conditions are met:

• Programmer is "on" for the time in question
  
• The thermostat shows that the temperature is below that at which it is set
  
  

Now we can ignore the first one - I've turned it to on all the time.

The second one (thermostat) is, in reality, simply voltage on a line - the "Call for heat" signal, which is generated (in the thermostat) when the unit closes a switch in response to the ambient temp being below whatever it is set to.

So what the Nest does is to put it's system (Heat Link and Thermostat unit, plus the web-based bits) in control of that "Call for heat" signal, which it sends whenever the conditions you set are met (time/date/temp).

Doubtless as I type this smoke is starting to coil out of my Heat Link....

Hmmm. Cheers. I was going to shop around for appliances but I just know I'll get something that won't fit! I'll see how they compare on price. Cheers!

That makes sense, I will have to open ours up to see how it's wired as the current thermostat is wireless. I suspect the programmer may be wired into all three terminals (L, N, 'Call for heat') - did you use existing cabling or was there any included with the Nest?

I re-used the cable that was running to the 230v thermostat, as it was no longer required and had three cores (Live, Neutral and Live Return/call for heat).

Yeah, come on @BQ you know the rules, you can't advertise here and elsewhere.

lol

How much would I be looking at to add double plug sockets to my flat? Probably need 4 or 5. Is £50 a socket reasonable?

Are they in new locations or are you converting single sockets to double?

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New locations.

My new washer dryer goes for some serious walks on spin. I've changed the RPM from 1500 to 400 but does exactly the same.

The floor is wooden. Anyone found a decent solution?

Purple Bricks, such a shit website. Apparently the vendor didn't get any kind of notification of the offer we made last Wednesday, and I'm not surprised - it's cack!

Would anyone be interested in a slimline fitted dishwasher? It was fitted in to our flat but we don't need it so are replacing it with a mini fridge. It's one of these http://www.cameokitchens.co.uk/product.php/7213/aeg_f78400vi0p, 45cm wide, rrp of over £400, I'd like £150 ono. It's about 6 months old, we used it once since we moved in, it's in perfect working order

Dudes, I think we might be moving out of London. I'm not telling you where though because you'll want to come and bump up the prices. Making an offer and putting this place on the market Monday. Nothing may come of it. Wish us luck.

@Dammit great photo. Full room shot please!

Way too messy right now! However, you're only round the corner, you'd be welcome to pop over for a coffee if you wanted to have a look round.

We had 2 days work from an electrician, he cut 4 new sockets into downstairs concrete wall, tidied up, checked the wiring, rewired some stuff, changed 10 light socket plates, put swapped 2 singles for doubles upstairs. Cut in two into concrete, one into plaster.
540 with materials we selected from screwfix.

Would and have recommended him again.

If it was the same locations I'd say do it yourself (until I get told it's illegal by diable). We moved one light switch with an angle grinder (there were two nearby and wonky switches so we rerouted one of them and dug a channel for the wire to the other) and enlarged a load of single sockets into doubles with a chisel and a lot of swearing. Parts from screwfix. The only hitch has been that our walls aren't perfectly flat so we needed to fill in a bit with some caulky stuff. Cost us maybe 50 quid in parts and materials and took two afternoons.

Anyone got experience of soundproofing (a bedroom wall which has an unused fireplace in the middle)?

^Boast post

ping me that sparkie's number, damo - cheers.

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The first thing to do is plug any holes between the two rooms if they exist, after that it gets increasingly difficult/expensive. Ideally you want a floating false wall sealed around floor, ceiling and side walls, with a lot of mass and/or limp membranes included.

Acoustic insulation is a bitch, any material you tie to the walls/floors transmits sound to some extent. Your best chance is probably isolating the frequencies you least want and putting up with the rest. If your rooms are big enough that you can stand to put 120mm kingspan or something similar it might be enough to dampen voices.