Tomo
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Post by Tomo on Feb 21, 2024 16:20:22 GMT
Yep 100% agree. I've learned a lot through all of this. Sadly, our Idiot Tax bill for last year is probably going to be fairly high. But there comes a point with one's mental health, where you can't take the injustice of it all any more and it's time to move on as painlessly as possible.
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Post by elstoof on Feb 24, 2024 9:18:48 GMT
Boiler packed in last night, bloody freezing in here
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Post by Dougs on Feb 24, 2024 9:22:19 GMT
Only had to hold out for 6 months!
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Post by elstoof on Feb 24, 2024 9:24:46 GMT
I know right? Always the way. Pimlico reckons it’s just some rubber seals that have perished, which would be a result. Still got to pay them £200 per hour mind…
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Post by Dougs on Feb 24, 2024 9:28:08 GMT
Hot damn. Those billboards don't pay for themselves I guess.
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Post by freddiemercurystwin on Feb 24, 2024 9:35:03 GMT
Pimlico? OMG!
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Post by elstoof on Feb 24, 2024 9:45:56 GMT
Almost double bubble on the weekend. They’re expensive, but they’re good and reliable. Called at 7:30 this morning and they had someone here by 8
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Post by technoish on Feb 24, 2024 9:51:27 GMT
Yeah even my usual (and awesome) plumbers suggest calling pimlico if I need something urgent...
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Post by elstoof on Feb 24, 2024 10:38:04 GMT
All sorted for a mere 600 sheets
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Post by Dougs on Feb 24, 2024 10:46:33 GMT
That shower will be fucking amazing
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Post by elstoof on Feb 24, 2024 11:10:06 GMT
Was only out of action for a few hours, the tank in the loft was still full of hot water. Just hope the old girl holds on a few more months, 16 year old boiler
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Post by Zuluhero on Feb 24, 2024 11:20:09 GMT
£600! Wow, that's a quarter of a brand new boiler fitted! 😮
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Post by elstoof on Feb 24, 2024 11:24:35 GMT
You won’t get a new boiler fitted same day in London for anywhere close to 2 grand lol
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Post by nexus6 on Feb 24, 2024 11:25:19 GMT
It wouldn’t help when the boiler does break down, but I always like to have an electric shower. Means you can still at least wash if there is a problem and maybe, like in summer, not make it so urgent a repair ie you could wait until the next week.
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Post by Zuluhero on Feb 24, 2024 11:25:30 GMT
I guess I am in Worcester, the boiler capital of the world 😅
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Post by Zuluhero on Feb 24, 2024 11:26:39 GMT
Also I didn't realise it was london monopoly money 😂
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Post by Dougs on Feb 24, 2024 12:46:00 GMT
Even on sleepy IoW, my boiler was £3k and took 2 days to fit because of where the old one was fitted. Speaking of which, the smart thermostat kept losing contact with the boiler. Spent ages moving it, reconnecting etc before I worked out that one of the battery pins were shite and it just wasn't getting any power. Off by like 1mm, couldn't really tell.
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Post by technoish on Feb 24, 2024 13:21:33 GMT
It wouldn’t help when the boiler does break down, but I always like to have an electric shower. Means you can still at least wash if there is a problem and maybe, like in summer, not make it so urgent a repair ie you could wait until the next week. Or the cylinder just has an immersion heater for backup  |
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Post by freddiemercurystwin on Feb 24, 2024 13:33:30 GMT
£600! Wow, that's a quarter of a brand new boiler fitted! 😮 That's Pimlico Plumbing for you. |
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Post by nexus6 on Feb 24, 2024 13:34:53 GMT
It wouldn’t help when the boiler does break down, but I always like to have an electric shower. Means you can still at least wash if there is a problem and maybe, like in summer, not make it so urgent a repair ie you could wait until the next week. Or the cylinder just has an immersion heater for backup Too much fucking about for me. Cylinders and immersions and all that pish. Just the boiler and a leccy shower is fine for me. Simple! |
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Post by freddiemercurystwin on Feb 24, 2024 13:42:16 GMT
Same here but only because that's what the previous owners had installed, even if you have no heating at least you can shower, something really awful about having to do some primitive clean with a flannel and bowl of water out of the kettle if you've not hot water on tap.
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Post by KD on Feb 24, 2024 14:35:01 GMT
I got to change my electric shower this year, sure it's been up 30 years.
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Post by Leolian'sBro on Feb 24, 2024 21:52:08 GMT
Well, if it makes you guys feel better the ‘fix the damp on the wall’ has become ‘explore how far the damp goes under the floor’…
Pray for me.
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Post by elstoof on Feb 24, 2024 22:23:13 GMT
That’s never usually good
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Post by technoish on Feb 24, 2024 23:29:00 GMT
Well, if it makes you guys feel better the ‘fix the damp on the wall’ has become ‘explore how far the damp goes under the floor’… Pray for me. If not already, I might suggest trying an independent damp surveyor. I've used one a couple times to check stuff. |
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Post by Dougs on Feb 25, 2024 8:34:53 GMT
I don't trust damp surveyors. Just seem to recommend drastic action when none is needed. Getting a lot of condensation in our house and I know it's basically down to ventilation. There's no ingress etc. Just a function of old houses and modern living.
Edit: there are of course other legitimate reasons for damp. Including DPC failing.
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Post by geefe on Feb 25, 2024 8:44:03 GMT
I've got a tiny bit in a rear bedroom. Curiously, the wall that faces the unprotected exterior and took all the brunt of the last 6 month's of storms. It's not wet or mouldy but it is darker. A load of pointing went out of the wall. Had that redone but need to get it looked at.
Trying to find solid wall insulation installers though...forget it. Absolutely insane.
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Post by elstoof on Feb 25, 2024 8:54:53 GMT
A basement flat I lived in at Uni had a damp bedroom, surveyors advised a load of DPC which involved digging a trench in the concrete of the garden, took weeks and did fuck all. I was in bed with a hangover late one morning and heard a dripping noise in the wall, it was just a case of the upstairs flat shower leaking between the dot and dab
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Post by Tomo on Feb 25, 2024 15:00:13 GMT
So... The central heating leak saga I described on previous page continues and continues to absolutely mystify.
Leak engineer found large damp patch under floorboards in kitchen where new piping was installed. Bingo. Or so we think...
Builder comes over, rips up the floor he laid 6 months ago. There is a large amount of damp concrete seemingly emanating from the region of the heating pipes.
Builder then proceeds to obliterate the concrete he previously laid. Then starts removing kitchen cabinets he installed. In the process he hits both a gas pipe and water pipe, the latter of which covers all of the pipe work in water. Great. Nnnrghh.
So we agree he goes away and I keep an eye on the pipes. Theory being: concrete should dry out and where the leak is in the pipes, it'll remain wet. Logical right?
Fast forward to today, and after about 5 days or so of playing the waiting game... Can we see a leak in a pipe? Luck fuck we can. And the concrete is not getting wet either. Yet boiler continues to empty gradually. Absolutely. Baffling.
So drained. Lost for ideas at this stage, short of taking up even more flooring...
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Post by geefe on Feb 26, 2024 9:22:59 GMT
Flabbergasted at my mum.
A recommended builder quotes £1500 for a job. Her house is a 1950s bungalow on crap Lincolnshire marsh land. Part of the extension has some really bad and, in some cases, crumbling brick work.
He offers to take out the external layer of bricks, redo, repoint and seal on the second toilet. Must be a space of about 1x1m square and going up maybe 2m.
She turns around and says "I think that's out of my budget" so he knocks it down to about £1200 and she's still unsure.
I guess that's the flip side for a lot of these people. I got quoted between £2400-2800 for my garden job - new concrete base fence, new patio and retained with a new sleeper.
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