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  1. I've done much the same and made many mistakes along the way. Next time, it'll be much better
  2. I'm no plumber but this is what I’ve learnt in renovating and extending my own house. A decent plumber will be able to fill in the details for you. Forget about heating and plumbing to start with and consider the house and what you want to do with it. A 1930s semi will be a low performing house. I’d expecting it to have a cavity which could be insulated but there’s no guarantees as to how good/effective/even that will be. Suspended wooden floor? Likely to be cold and draughty. Windows? Double glazed? Old? New? Roof? Typical insulated cold roof? Whatever those answers are, it sounds like you’re going to need a bucket load of heat in the house to keep it warm so gas probably beats direct electric resistance heating based on long term running costs. I doubt newer tech solutions would be sufficient. Solar panels – Solar PV would cost over £5k for a typical set up and with the feed in tariffs reduced I’d forget about them initially even if you went for a rent a roof scheme or borrowed the money. I would bet that heat pump stuff (ground or air) would not work without significant improvements to the building fabric, you probably don’t have the space and they would cost far too much – ground especially. Basic modern central heating set up gives you a condensing combi gas boiler feeding direct to heating radiators and hot water outlets. Boiler sized to size of house, probably something like a 28kW or 33kW for a 3 bed would be more than comfortable and happily run a nice shower direct from the boiler with just a thermostatic shower fitting. But do you really want to connect a fancy new boiler to the crappy 25 year old steel radiators full of rust? So new radiators might be required too. Even so this basic system does away with a hot water tank or in modern parlance a “Thermal Store”. Which you would need if you went down the Solar PV route as this would give you somewhere to dump all the electricity you are not otherwise using – more cost effective than exporting it to the grid. But consider what you want in future. Extend the house to make it bigger? Another bathroom with another shower? How is the water pressure? Hence questioning whether you should replace the hot water cylinder with added bonus of the option of an electric immersion heater if there’s problems with the gas boiler or solar PV in the future as mentioned above. Ditto something like an accumulator tank too if your pressure is low or you want to supply multiple things at once. Don’t forget bathrooms and showers etc, what do you want? I wouldn’t go back to an electric shower after a proper combi fed thermostatic shower. And going back to my first questions, consider if there is anything you can do to improve the house at this early stage? Insulating and draught proofing etc. A gas central heating system will heat a house nicely but the better the fabric of the house is the less gas you’ll use and if you can get the boiler temperature low enough it will run at its most efficient. In hard water areas things fur up with limescale more, the hotter they run for instance as well. Hope that’s given you something to think about but in answer to your question. Completely new basic plumbing and heating could easily be £3500 – 4000. Less or more depending on the choices you make. If you don’t understand what you want/need at the start, there are no guarantees that your plumber will either and you won’t get an appropriate solution.
  3. Size of house? Budget? What about replacing rads and plumbing? Existing house construction?
  4. Is this the current Whisky/Whiskey thread? Question, has anyone tried the Glenmorangie Signet? It has a rrp of £120 but Sainsburys are knocking them out for £50. I bought one but was wondering what it was like before I try it. My current stock is quite poor and needs strengthening with something heavy on the peat. Aberlour Abunad'h Glenfiddich 12 Chivas 12 Chivas 18
  5. lol, leeds based subsidiary of Chinese co looking to flood the uk with white and brown goods.
  6. Hence looking at RS. The next available 32"-er is a Hisense at £165 with guarantee. Which is a new name to me but I see they are advertising at the Euros so must be a massive concern company specialising in non-special, utilitarian white and brown goods.
  7. ****, no stock locally so I'll look again
  8. Cheers but that's too big. It needs to fit in a space in a storage unit.
  9. Well, you sir are in for a treat when someone posts the project thread of the Favorit EV. http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/101947-coming-soon-the-greatest-favorit-project-ever-probably/
  10. Kids - 4 & 8. I like the fact you can get the long guarantee with RS. ADSL wouldn't support another smart tv and even if it could something like a now tv box would do the job.
  11. Is something like this going to be ok? Its just for a playroom/den for TV and games. http://www.richersounds.com/product/tv---all/blaupunkt/32-133i/blau-32-133i
  12. Cheers Nick,I picked up that set + speedboat 60085 and the 2 watches for £43. 2 other sets with £25 rrp for £17 at JL.
  13. Saw LE60 GUY yesterday. Not hard to guess where the illegal white coloured screw cover was
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