What "man jobs" have you done today?
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No to SBR. It will stain the slabs.
Which sandstone is it? Some are soft and need sealing but you cant seal now it is too wet, the slabs need to be bone dry to seal them otherwise you risk turning them white. Better to lay now and let them sit until summer and seal after a few dry days.
my garden shed has basically had it, the wood around the window was so bad a piece of the glass few out, so I took the the glass out smashed it up and boarded over the windows. Its only used to store our bikes in and the lawn mower. I then managed to fix the rear trip back on the car (it keeps poping off after my wife reversed into a bollard and bent it out of space) not sure how long its going to hold but its better than it was.
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Had a spectacular boiler fail this evening.
Washing machine was on, power went out in the whole house, went downstairs to find water pouring out of the boiler, something I was not expecting!
Thinking we had a burst pipe isolated all water, then went to investigate the boiler. Discovered that the washing machine had been pumping water up the boiler condensate drain line as the outdoor pipe had frozen solid, i've taken the boiler apart and looks like we need a new fan as ours has had about 5ltrs through it.
What an epic design fail, not unusual to plumb things this way apparently, been a fun evening!
Washing machine was on, power went out in the whole house, went downstairs to find water pouring out of the boiler, something I was not expecting!
Thinking we had a burst pipe isolated all water, then went to investigate the boiler. Discovered that the washing machine had been pumping water up the boiler condensate drain line as the outdoor pipe had frozen solid, i've taken the boiler apart and looks like we need a new fan as ours has had about 5ltrs through it.
What an epic design fail, not unusual to plumb things this way apparently, been a fun evening!
That is a bit daft, so without the boiler being affected the washing machine would have flooded the kitchen anyway?
What do you plan to do to prevent it happening again?
Is this waste pipe the type that falls in to a gully pot with a grate outside?
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I'm Tring to work out how it's plumbed, I thought condensing boilers had a small diameter pipe that should be angled so it doesn't freeze, whereas my washer goes into the sink waste.
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Double post...
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Yep the washing machine would have flooded the utility room, water from the sink etc discharges through another pipe, this washing machine discharge is into a grey water open grate.
The reason for the above is because the downstairs toilet and both the sink and utility room sink flow into a macerator before going outside, due to the height and lack of a trap it would not be a good idea to plumb the washing machine into this.
Condensate drain from the boiler runs internally into the house (hidden), then it goes into a shared washing machine drain pipe to the outside.
Above will work 99% of the time because the boiler is much higher than the washing machine and the discharge outlet is not blocked.
However as we have found out when the outlet freezes and the washing machine is on, then we get the backflow situation.
Going to replumb the outside pipe so it cannot sit below grade in a pool of frozen water.
If you can, I’d also separate them so they are not coming out of the same pipe, makes any back flow impossible then.
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Yep, will get that sorted during out kitchen / utility renovations next year.
After me taking most of the boiler apart lastnight and drying things out, plumber came out today, put the boiler back together and other than the igniter needing cleaning all was good.
Lucky escape considering everything was soaked, says a lot of contact cleaner and drying things out quickly!
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That higher on the rhsPut up a curtain pole in the spare room / Mrs' WFH space
Before
After
?Two towel rings put up on the tiles walls, curtain hold backs put up in the bedroom, small rail put on the back of the kitchen door for the likes of tea towels etc.
I THINK it's the angle of the photo...lol.
That higher on the rhs
I THINK it's the angle of the photo...lol.
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No such thing, just turn it roundLol, yes it is! Or my spirit level is broken
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Might be the windows not straight, my experience of builders in that they struggle to make anything squareLol, yes it is! Or my spirit level is broken
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No such thing, just turn it round
You’ll be surprised how many are bent especially builders where it’s been rattling around in the back of a van, used for laying bricks one day then joinery the next.
You can check a spirit level. Level it up draw a line. Turn it round draw a line they should be the same. On both horizontal and vertical.
You can use a couple of nails one on each end level it up then turn it around.