What we all working on this week ?

[king of pipes]

I have a insurance job to try and rescue a poorly installed quad shower the customer wants to save the tiling if possible and has a few spare so fingers crossed it may work , the loss adjuster allowed em £1500 that will just about cover materials. Kop

 

[Scott_D]

Nice.
I have fitted quite a few heating coils in changing rooms and drying rooms

 

[SimonG]

Painting the staircase. Spindles and undercoat. Might get it finished before lockdown ends

 

[Stigster]

Nice.
I have fitted quite a few heating coils in changing rooms and drying rooms

I have only found one improvised heating coil possibly for drying and it was sat on top of a cylinder in an airing cupboard. The stupid thing was it was plumbed into the hot distribution pipe. It was cooling the water down before it reached the hot taps. It was about ten metres of 22mm tube in a coil just on the hot distribution in the airing cupboard. Such a coil on the heating side would have been ok as it would be just like another radiator but on the hot distribution it's seems pretty daft to me.

My other thought was it was a silly "energy saving" device that whoever put it there thought maybe it'd pick up some of the cylinder heat loss and put it into the hot water. I made a thread on it here ages ago and nobody could give a definitive answer.

What a silly way to go about it I thought. It was generating a "parasitical loss" on the cylinder and cooling the water in the distribution system down.

 

[SimonG]

Sorting van and garage out in the sunshine. All I need is a beer.

 

[Stanios]

Sorting van and garage out in the sunshine. All I need is a beer.

Gordon Bennet
Is that Renault trafic?

 

[SimonG]

Gordon Bennet
Is that Renault trafic?

Fiat Doblo just the garage to finish now

 

[Jim Goodenough]

Sorting van and garage out in the sunshine. All I need is a beer.

? What happened to the painting Simon ?

 

[SimonG]

? What happened to the painting Simon ?

Nice day today. Cooler tomorrow, another coat of undercoat.

 

[Jock Spanners]

Hi all you copper lover's, take a look at this (it was done by a friend of mine).

54mm tube.
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I love it ! End feed too

 

[JCplumb]

What we all working on this week ?
This week I've been sorting my car out for its' MOT in a couple of months.
Oil and filter change yesterday, today I planned swapping both front anti-roll drop links, started quite late so only managed one as it was awkward as hell.
Tomorrow I'll do the other drop link and on Friday it will be the offside track rod end. Then should be good to go and will have saved £240 garage fees

 

[Harvest Fields]

MOTs have been postponed for 6 months mate.

 

[JCplumb]

Very true, my car really needed some TLC though

 

[king of pipes]

First boiler swap since lockdown friend of my daughters so sorted it out for her , only been in the house since Feb and inherited a Baxi duo Tec mk1 poorly maintained a leaking heat exchanger took the board out as well , with things as they are and money tight went for a entry level Ideal Classic 30 all in all a decent little boiler doddle to fit 5 year warranty keep safe all . Kop

 

[SimonG]

I'll see if I can get this done

 

[Jim Goodenough]

I'll see if I can get this done

1000 pieces By when Simon ? 1000 pieces?