Yes you are correct, they go by the size of the bigger ring. You should be looking at a double specific guide though, not the lg1. e.13 trs maybe?

Northwind, there is plenty riding of all sorts in and around Inverness, better than any trail centre imo!Pm me if you need guided.

Yes, pressure relief valve, or tprv temperature pressure relief valve.

Tundish is the black bit with gaps which is connected to the tprv. 15mm pipe in the top 22mm coming out bottom. Tprv is a brass fitting usually sited about 3/4 way up the tank and has a lever or a red knob attached.

When recharging, all you have to do is switch water main off and open lever on tprv till the gurgling stops, then turn water back on.

mtbmaff, it’s just random, some can go years without needing recharged some can go less. a tell tale sign is water constantly dripping at the tundish from the prv or tprv.

I have gone from 3 bar shower pump and gravity fed hw to a santon premier plus in my own home, far better shower and i don’t run out of hw like i did with the pump. I also have a deluge head and a 22mm thermostatic mixer shower, which was an improvement in flow over the 15mm mira valve which was in before.

I will possibly be changing to a thermal store in the future, once i get some feedback from the few that i have installed.

And yes, oso are great, way cheaper than a megaflo. In fact, i can’t remember the last time i installed a megaflo.

johndoh, a megaflo or equivalent will give you the best shower. In my experience these ‘deluge’ showerheads are not that great from a combi.

My plumber is giving different advice. So please explain how a tank at mains presure can have a better flow rate than the mains themselves?

Surley the presure/flow can only be as good as the supply into the tank, its not like you can empty the tank faster than it fills as its a sealed system, hence why you can’t have a pump.

For starts the pressurized cylinder will have a 22mm inlet and 22mm outlet (more flow). There’s a few other reasons which i cant be arsed to explain, you need to understand the difference between flow rate and pressure.

18 years experience tells me a pressurized cylinder is way better in every aspect than a combi.

Run two taps on a combi system and two taps on a pressurized cylinder and you can see the difference.

So if the showers from the combi wern’t to you liking the presurised system won’t be any better. Its not like the presurised system has a pump to increase the presure in the tank. So if you want the full pressure washer style shower effect you may be better sticking with the traditional system and adding pumps to each of the showers.

Not correct, a pressurized tank will have a better flow rate than any combi.

Edit; If there is a decent incoming pressure/flow rate.

What giantx4 said! Mitre fast is ace, fixed loads of things with it.

The only thing I have found that wouldn’t stick is plastic cable guides to my frame, still looking for that solution.

Cam cream = camouflage cream. For covering your face and hands while doing covert operations!

Here’s a pic from sunday looking down to Loch Coire Fionnaraich and Maol Chean-dearg from Sgorr Ruadh Summit.

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Torridon is fine, i was up walking Sgorr Ruadh and Beinn Liath Mhor on sunday. Little bit of snow at some of the bealachs but nothing to worry about, 2-3″ but has been well trampled by feet. Has been wall to wall sunshine up here for a while so it will melt quick.

I think the problem was that one of the red tops printed the story and on the same page had another story about a little girl who was denied treatment for her (real)illness on the nhs.

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if you touched the flat screw next to option 1 on first, chris is right. option 1 on the second pic is the bleed screw, although it can be bled from the hexagonal pump port too. (option 2)

You will need an engineer as chris says.

Edit. the flat screw next to option 1 on first pic

The bleed screw should be a 4mm allen key in the end of the hexagonal shaft to the left of the burner, are you sure this is what you were bleeding? You wont hear air coming out and it can take a while sometimes. Is your tank higher than the burner?

If you take the head off completely and try to twist the valve nib with your fingers it should spin 20 to 30 degrees quite easily, in that case its just a new motor. Shouldn’t need the whole valve. 10 minute job to replace the motor, 2 wires and a screw.

It’s not a pressure relief valve , it’s an auto by-pass valve. If you have a wall stat and rad with no trv then the by-pass shouldn’t be used.

I could be wrong but the pipes going upwards look like 3/4 imperial pipe? Is it an old property? Soldering a 22mm fitting onto 3/4 pipe never works properly and will always be a bodge.

I have seen lots of diy jobs like this, even pulled one soldered joint out by hand.

Why dont you cut a section of plasterboard off and fit timber dwangs where the screws will be if it isn’t tiled yet? Then replace plasterboard ready for tiling. When doing a bathroom fits i always do this.

Edit; for towel rail, shower screen basin etc. smaller lighter stuff gets rawlplugged and screwed.

I think this is the near the start of the descent from Cougie to Affric. Mobile phone pic!

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The track from Cougie to Affric is easy to find, i think its sign posted. I thought it was pretty crap, wouldn’t do it again.

Although it may be better just now when the ground’s frozen.

Edit: the terrain was crap, the views were spectacular.

[/quote]Intersting stuff. I hope this can be asked with out being seen as provactive. Worth saying I have used my phone to help out navigating

Do you carry a map as well?

How do you tackle battery life?

Do you use a water proof case

Yes i carry a map and compass, but my phone is my primary navigation. I also carry an old iphone with viewranger too for backup.
Even with a dedicated gps i think a map and compass are essential, and skills to use them obviously.

I put phone onto airplane mode so that it’s not constantly using data, saving battery. Also i just switch the gps on every now and then to see where i am rather than have it running all the time and recording my route.
It lasted 13 1/2 hours for me whilst walking from Ft William to Spean Bridge over 8 munro’s recently. That was a 42k walk. It ran out 5 mins before i got back to my van.

Sandwich bag for waterproofing! :-)

edit; beaten to it.
edit again: my phone is a sony experia arc s.

esselgruntfuttock, so its you?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/outdoors/articles/jelly/

Nonsense, viewranger works on my smartphone in airplane mode no probs. Pinpoints my exact location on 1:25000 without mobile signal.

Edit: just under 100 munros walked within the last 13 months with my smartphone. Never failed me.

iamnotamused, i dont suppose you found a satmap case and spare battery at Suileag on your visit? My mate lost his.

cheers.

We were there 4th and 5th, i did’nt look at the paper as it was just bought for lighting the fire but was not used. Was there a big blue bag of coal there? Stupid question actually as the garage in Ullapool is probably the coal stop for everyone who goes to Suileag.

ha ha, that was probably my sun paper bought for lighting the fire! My friend and i struggled along the track (walking) with 20kg + rucksacks (booze) and a 20kg bag of coal a few weeks back. When we arrived there was already 6 drunk Dundonians there with a load of coal and booze. Suffice to say it was not an easy walk up Suilven in the morning. We left the bag of coal there too!

GL- there was a guy on a local forum that i use who had his bike nicked while bagging quite a remote munro in the cairngorms.

i have forgotten my lock a few times on trips, i just hide it well and take wheel axles with me.

No probs, i did’nt think it would be so easy myself. Quite literally 2 mins to fill out, no complaints from the bank either, they were ever so helpfull.
Two weeks before, i tried to use the insurance as i had quit my job but they refused,idiots!
I wouldn’t have got the refund if i had used the ppi. :D

I did this last year, filled out the form on which? website and 2 weeks later i had a call from my bank with an offer (amount paid plus 10%). 2 weeks after that i had £1600 returned to me. Simple!

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Never heard so much crap in all my life paulosoxo! You must work for BG?

Solder ring fittings are what most of us pro’s use.

I doubt there is enough space for formed bends by use of a spring or bending tool. A proper soldered joint will be fine in the wall, i usually cover the pipe in duct tape before plastering over.

No, yorkshire is a soldered fitting, they take up less room than compression. http://www.screwfix.com/p/yorkshire-solder-ring-elbow-yp12-15mm-pack-of-10/75971

Cynic-al,They will if you use copper and yorkshire elbows with these….. http://www.toolstation.com/shop/Taps+Showers/Shower+Valves/Shower+Fixing+Bracket/d240/sd3000/p68003

:-) hope that was a joke project!join the hot and cold up?

EDIT; ah see what you mean! doh!

Blocked cold feed from the tank would be the next thing to check after the above suggestions. Is there a lot of dirt in the tank? The cold feed acts as an expansion too.

I use a sink unblocking pump to blast air through the cold feed from the tank to dislodge any sludge build up.

If you close the water main off to the tank and drain a bit of the water from the ch system, maybe just a few litres, then open the main to the tank again and if it fills the c/feed is ok, if not you have a blockage.

Nope they dont mf. i have fitted hundreds over the years that were just mixers. no probs.

Should be fine, never had a problem yet fitting a mixer with a combi.

cb where are the leaks coming from when the pipe was raised? I had the same problem with a customer recently, when the pipe was raised the pan connectors leaked. I bought a couple of offset pan connectors and replaced the old ones which allowed me to raise the pipe by 40mm. The plasterboard where the soil pipe went through on one pan had to be cut higher by 40mm which also which left a bit of patching to do, the other pan was a back to wall type so was covered. This is the ones i used http://www.plumbcenter.co.uk/en/multikwik-4-offset-pan-connector-mko4-56760?top_category=11815
Doing this will raise the water level in the pan, did’nt pose any problems though.

Great thread! Sbz, Sgurr a Mhaidaidh is rideable up to about 3/4 of the way up the coire from Glen Brittle YH. It gets too rocky after that, you certainly wouldnt want to take a bike up on the ridge. If you wanted to do the two munros leave the bike at the base of an Dorus and walk up. If you were to add Sgurr na Banachdich like i did you will either have to return over the arete (very thin) or dump your bike at the junction further down the coire on the way up to an Dorus.
The most recent munros i have done by bike were the two at Loch Lochy, Meall na Teanga and Sron a Choir Gairbh. Meall na Teanga isn’t worth doing and Sron a Choir Gairbh is only just worth doing, however, the Cam Bealach is one of the best descents i have done. Very bouldery and rocky all the way from the top of the bealach to the forest with only a few smoothish bits. I cant recall any waterbars on the way down. Not too sure about riding up the Bealach as i prefer to walk up the munros and ride down, so it was a push up for me (no granny ring). Im sure it would be no bother to the fit and willing.

This is an install i did a few weeks ago. Not quite a ‘wood’ burner as such but a pellet boiler.
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I would ask your engineer if he has taken a feed for the ufh off the boiler flow BEFORE the ch and hw motorized valves and fitted a new motorized valve to control it. as i said above is the only way it will work satisfactorily. if it is connected after the heating valve its not going to heat up too well.