Owning your own home

Turn the temp up on that sensor so the plunger retracts? That's what I've been doing, happy to hear a better solution.

Pulling the batteries works too - then it self-calibrates when you put it back.

Cheapest I could find were from toolsation I think and they came with the TRV.

Right, I know it's been discussed before, sorry. The water supply that comes into my house is lead pipe, runs around 6/7m through the basement, held up on nails. It's visibly dented/sagging in places. The water pressure is ok in general, but top shower (electric) and the tap up there basically go to a dribble if someone is having a shower downstairs. Water meter is in the street directly outside the boundary wall, about 3m of front garden in between.

Should I be looking to replace it?
Will it make any difference to the water pressure if I only replace the section inside the house?

We had similar, rewire of a council flat and the upstairs lighting was not earthed, but the ceiling was concrete so no way it was getting changed. Wasn't legally required either.

Recently got a EICR to sell the place and the electrician pointed out that the metal conduit was earthed and it was common to use it instead.

£160 isn't that bad for london prices, is that including the TRVs too?

Should I be looking to replace it?

Probably, if it looks sad.

Will it make any difference to the water pressure if I only replace the section inside the house?

No, I don't think so, the flow rate is limited by the weakest part of the pipe run.

I have a Neato Botvac D7, a "connected" robot vacuum cleaner. When you have a couple of cats who like fighting each other when they get bored this is a Very Handy Thing. Apart from when it goes wrong, which is (for me) the current state of affairs.

I changed broadband providers, and thought I'd change the wifi network at the same time to the one provided by EE. This proved to be A Mistake.

It has proved impossible to move the Botvac from one network to another, and now you have to reboot it manually to get it to go, which means it gets forgotten and we end up with cat fluff up to our knees.

The process for connecting a Botvac is as follows:

1. Turn the Botvac on in pairing mode, it will go into wi-fi access-point mode
   
2. Go into Settings on your iPhone, connect to the Botvac "network"
   
3. Open the Neato app, connect to the Botvac
   
4. Go through the setup, which will connect the Botvac to your wi-fi network
   
5. From now on the Botvac connects to Neato servers via the Internet, and your phone app connects to your Botvac via the same route
   
6. You can now enter the Botvacs cleaning schedule and other config details
   
   

I can't get past step 1 - it won't go into access point mode.

Neato support are wholly, 100% concerned with troubleshooting my home wifi network - the network that the Botvac is 100% unable to connect to, because it can never be told the details of this network, because I can't connect to the Botvac in order to tell it what network to connect to.

Unless! I'm missing something and the connection speed between my phone and my wi-fi router is going to (magically?) fix the ability of the Botvac to go into access point mode.

Am I missing something?

No, I just grabbed those from Toolstation but they're no dear.

But what is the step for putting it in AP mode? Do you hold a button down or something?

Hard reset? 1m45s onwards - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aojlcfTyt4

I have gone through the full reset process, three times.

Hah. To correct myself, I went through the reset process the service person gave me, which didn't work. I ran through the one that Aaron posted and it did work. Thanks!

Bueno. It looked like a bit of an odd one. The bumper being a secret button of sorts.

Sale of my flat should theoretically exchange and complete today.. fingers crossed.

edit: completed.

thought I'd change the wifi network at the same time to the one provided by EE. This proved to be A Mistake.

That's a bad idea generally. Some ISP routers have poor default settings and easily crackable passwords. Always change the SSID key and router admin password.

Anyone have any idea how much would you expect to pay for a loft conversion in Bristol on a 2 up 2 down? Pic for info (one on the right). Google without engaging possible people to do it saying 25-40k.

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Anyone know any plumbers that do west london and aren't shit?

if you have the money to change it then do so - get a quote from the water board for connection cost as the main may be in the road - check your searches
you should see an improvement in flow more so than pressure - however the pressure is whatever the mains is

Yeah I do. He’s well good.

Sadly Google is probably bang on the range of possibilities there, depending on various factors - is anything done already, bathroom to be included or not, dormers/veluxes, any work needed on lower floors to comply with regs, current state of loft floor (joists strong enough to hold a floor, or just to suspend the current first floor ceiling?)

I would advise if you don't have to move here right now, don't. It'll cool down eventually. I feel quite a few people are going to have egg on their faces, or maybe no egg's in their food for many years to come with how much they've burdened themselves with by bidding too much.

Theres a corner ground on my street (only the one door for whole tenement), massive garden by tenement standards, took months to sell and honestly it probably went for an actual fair amount (offers over £225, went for £248 eventually). It did need something with mains drains dealt with, saw the builders on it yesterday, took 4 guys 6 hours and its done, so maybe £1-2k of work at the worst? When normal upper floor flats (somehow seen as more desirable because they are brighter feeling) in the immediate vicinity (needing also work) have been in the £240-260 region. Corner ground flats have a bit of extra space too usually.

Dennistoun is kinda overrun already, ship sailed on that one around 4 years ago IMO. Many mates have moved there in the past 10 years and price (esp rent) has shot up like crazy and are now being forced out further east.

Parking is bad there are lots of flat shares and lots of folk drive for work in those parts.

Was walking dog around Scotstoun village (scotstoun conservation area) today in the sun, its really nice, shops aren't great as its Whiteinch, but north of Dumbarton road is safe, nice feeling, very green and leafy and pricing is more stable. Between Dumbarton road and south street is what most people think Glasgow all looks like.

Dennistouns and shawlands are nothing short of a farce right now with pricing.

As you said there’s gonna be a lot of egg on folks faces when this pending recession finally hits.

I’ve missed out on a ton of flats but now I’m just holding tight and saving more and more every month I don’t buy something. I think people have got sucked into this trap of it’ll last forever 😂

Also everyone a property developer now too, and when you look below the surface it’s all that and most still need money spent on them! 20 year old boiler, as it’s been serviced every year and it’s dead on

Know two pretty good developers (also mates), both do a decent job (rare), both have just sat this one out and looking at their own houses/family projects instead, both say its way too hot to get in on anything as lots of have a go developers just bid each other up*

*I mean this is often the case, but never like this before.

Yeah totally, I know a few who have bought recently but more high end to rent and not flip.

The market for the last 2/3 years has been just getting daft.