Home DIY

What make is it?

Should we talk about knocking down walls and concrete instead?

Aga > gas / induction.

for what? visual amenity? cos it sure ain't for cooking flexibility

I'd resisted going there. I don't mess with the Aga tribe, they'll chop you up and roast you for 24 hours in their prized possession.

I've seen the cooking process and eaten quite a few Aga cooked meals, they do a great job but such a different way of cooking it's hard to see the attraction with a Central London lifestyle.

In any case I don't cook. I can make a kitchen from scratch, someone else can cook me dinner. :)

Agas are very flexible. Although having a pair of extra burners is always going to help. And not in London, as the only Agas worthwhile are oil burners.

Love a good Aga, me. Or a Stanley. Or a Rayburn.

What amp fuse will my boiler require - 3 amp?

How much electrical energy does it consume in watts. 3amp is very low but there's not much power consumption going on inside a modern boiler.

So about this beaker of mine...

Today is mostly removing gloss paint from plaster. Dear God what possesses some people?

http://www.vaillant.co.uk/downloads/ecotec-pro-instn-maint-261423.pdf

Pretty sure that means a 3 amp fuse

All the radiators are disconnected, so if I turn the boiler on I'm not gonna get in loads of trouble, right?

3amp according to that documentation. I guess you mean disconnected and the valves switched off. I prefer to have them capped and the system filled if I'm switching it on for hot water only. Sometimes the valves don't operate fully. I wouldn't run it with no pressure in.

So I shouldn't turn the boiler on?

What have you got going on? All radiators off - valves closed only, system filled, maybe you'll get away with all the valves working especially if it's a new install. I wouldn't run the boiler with the system empty - you could switch off the CH heating side, i.e. thermostat control CH OFF and that should save it from trying to heat water that's not there.

It's a slightly unusual situation for me as usually the system is filled before you switch the boiler on.

Converting a 2 bed, 1 bathroom house from conventional boiler to combi?

Apart from a 22mm gas inlet pipe is there anything else I need to know about?

Boiler will remain in the same position and there is a drain outside for the condensate. Would like to keep the present radiators and bring a hot feed into the bathroom for future upgrade to the electric shower.

Radiators will get TRV's fitted and would like a Nest system as well.

Drawing up plans for a new roof for my shed as stage 1 of sorting out my garden. Plan was to gut it back to the brick shell and build off that with new green roof, door and polycarbonate window to allow light in to a small workbench.

Brickwork is looking ok in places, but equally pretty shabby in others. Would it be enough to jet wash out all the loose mortar and re-point where it's gone shitty? What kind of mortar should I be using for this? Garden walls are in a similar state, so I'll probably try and do those at the same time also.

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Present boiler is an 80's gas eating monster and a combi will allow me to get rid of the cylinder and cold water tank that is presently taking up storage space in the main bedroom.

Hot water on demand is better than having a tank full of heated water that I don't use.

I used Dulux Kitchen Grease and Stain Resistant a few years ago - was skeptical about a matt finish being stain resistant, but it appears to be everything it claims.
https://www.dulux.co.uk/en/products/kitchen-matt
I'd list the things I've wiped off over the years, but it gives the impression of an unreasonable number of food fights.

Ah great, that's what we went for!

Looking into getting something like this done, although on a smaller scale. I have a plumber who will do the pipework, but he doesn't want to tile. Is tiling like this something I should attempt or is it a job for the professionals?

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you'll want a super even flat surface finish for every tile - are you up to it?

You can learn to tile from Youtube. Topps tiles do excellent videos.
It's pretty easy to learn to do a good job.

The rest is having the right tools - a good tile snapper and something for detail work - I use a Dremel with some of their special tiling attachments.

Anyone want a bag of self levelling floor stuff? Free to a good home, probably about 2/3rds left, in Hackney Wick.

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yes please! can collect this w/e

Freecycle - 4 tile backerboards (HardieBacker 500). 12mm x 800mm x 1200mm. For use instead of ply or plasterboard in wet areas. Collect from Archway N19