MrBen

The mains comes in (15mm pipe) and splits two ways, one to the kitchen tap, the other feeds the CW tank in the loft. 4 MB has been measured at kitchen mains branch only (ground level).

Boom tsh. Here's one for you. I have inherited a standard open vent heating system (Boiler out the back + hot water cylinder 1st floor + cw tank in the loft). The main issues with this are (i) takes up too much space (ii) HW pressure is crap. (iii) it's old and noisy and the HW cylinder is taking up a bedroom wardrobe. I have 4 bar of mains water pressure at ground level. I basically want: a max of 2 components not 3 to save space, stored HW, decent pressure for 2 bathrooms and close to noiseless operation. I've heard Megaflo stuff is not all its cracked up to be and is heavily dependent on a homes mains flow rate (rather than mains pressure) which is not generally great in SE22. I ask a few plumbers but they're only interested in connecting pipes and the usual vague cliches "Bosch make good boilers" and "combies are good for flats but not houses". So I almost need a heating designer to help me. Someone who knows the latest systems and can then recommend something that works for my house, my space, on my street. I can do all the research myself OR I'd happily pay a small fee for someone who knows this stuff inside out to do the research, check my house out, plan a design and then give me some price options and someone good to fit it. So.....any ideas?

Annette Curtain Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I used the one in Marylebone yesterday > > It's a shop > > It sells stuff > > So what ? Well...that branch is where I've bumped into Noel Gallagher not once but twice. Also spotted there, James Dean Bradfield from the Manic Street Preachers....

It's fun. Well at least my first one is. I've struck a decent balance between doing some of it myself and getting the pro's in for the harder stuff. Plastering for example is a magic art and life is too short for me to ever be able to do it well. Ditto roofing. Most roofers are slightly crazed it would seem and second only to scaffolders. The basics of renovation planning are easy enough, it's the interiors /fittings selection bit that takes up the time and is driving me slightly mad. You can spend a whole saturday driving round London to look at taps for example, as the web alone is not enough. I'd happily pay someone to do that all for me with a basic brief. So reren..... You already have the experience, the motivation to try it and by starting small you can test the waters gently without massive risk. You have the option to build a flexible business to hours that suit if you're a mum. Most people don't ever take that risk and are stuck slaving away for The Man in jobs they hate. You have a good and positive attitude which puts you ahead of many so good luck and above all... go for it.

And no "umbrellas". ;-)

Mick Mac Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > "No charge for us UK taxpayers" > > Hmmmm..... Yes yes. But I'm happy to pay my 40% + 18% CGT + 21% corp tax for the parts that work as well as this. I choose not, on this day of glorious September sunshine, to talk about the many parts that don't. But when it works well, it's a wonder.

In need of an authorised blood test, I headed to the walk in Lloyd Sexual Health Clinic at Guys by Lon Bridge this morning. It was an impressive experience and the NHS at it's best. Friendly, discrete, efficient (bordering jolly) staff who moved quickly, a short wait time, super clean waiting room and best of all, The Lighthouse Family on Radio 2 in the background. 7 blood tests, a bonus chlamydia check that now only requires a urine sample (lifetime pints for the man who invented this), no charge for us UK tax payers and back out into the sunshine. It made me almost joyful and I just had to share...

WomanofDulwich (SE21) keeping it real there... Word.

Rule 38 (section 4.2) - the mean age of all posters combined will always produce an average that falls between ages 38-42. Most of these people, whilst lovely in real life are actually also quite shy. So let them have their online outlet.

Michael Fish. Where are your reassuring words when we need you....

But Mick, you're talking of success as equating to purely accumulation of wealth or career positioning again and as you also say, its surely much more than that? Some successful people in that stereotype (ie success=career success or financial reward) have crap relationships but I'll wager its no more than the "unsuccessfull" or those frustated that they never fulfilled their true potential.

Mine would be: you're successful if you're doing what you enjoy, are truly happy and following your own "truth". The number of those who claim what success is/means to them but whom are doing everything but those things to avoid getting there is staggering. The "I could have been a contender"...stuck in bad relationships, crap jobs, fear holding them back from doing what they really want. Whilst time ticks away and life is short. That is surely the real tragedy?

Ok. Can we move on now?

Toilets where the toilet seat when up, is the wrong side of the vertical and keeps falling back down. So if you're a bloke and you have to use one hand to hold up a pissy seat and the other to....you get the idea. And yes, I REFUSE to sit down. Or try to pee through the seat which always gets complaints. Who the fuck designs these without thinking about that?

Dulwich Vlllage is prime for a small marketing outpost for an outfit like this (or Farrow and Ball). It doesn't have to make much money they could run it for a few years only to build profile and shift enough high margin floor tiles. Remember, this is a land where overblown kitchens that look like a Dalek's bedroom and cost 100k+ are not uncommon with a nice little overflow into ED where houses are getting more aspirationally fancy. Will it be useful to Village residents on a daily basis in the way many ED shops are? Of course not. I sometimes wish the village powers that be would take a peek at what the Howard De Walden estate have achieved in Marylebone, where the larger chains are limited but basically subsidise smaller independent stores to get a healthy, diverse commercial mix. The Dulwich Estate does a great job of preserving the village feel in all respects but choice of commercial tenant - Pizza Express and Cafe Rouge always seem like a jarring contradiction to me.

Yeah I know...but don't yawn. If you've had any credit card or high street bank loan in the past 10 years, now is a truly, monumentally, GOLDEN opportunity to claim back any PPI premiums you may have been asked to pay. The past months wranglings have seen the banks totally fold to the Ombudsman in what basically amounts to a full scale admission of liability in misselling. Back In my post uni debt days I'd had a rolling loan from 2001-2008 and a few credit cards, used to supplement my meagre salary/buy guitars/ visit various wanton women. They were all paid off back in 2009, but in July this year I thought I'd call LTSB up in June to register a complaint regardless as their PPI was a condition of lending. Result? I've just received a straight up letter simply offering to pay me all of my premiums back + any loan interest incurred on those premiums + general interest at 8%. Over 7 years, this all adds up to a fair whack on a compound interest basis and I now have a rather tidy cheque winging its way to me. As in enough to pay for a vintage Gibson 335/loads of drugs/er...new curtains. So if this is you, strike whilst the iron's hot. You don't need a lawyer/shady claim back firm. Just call them up. (you are now free to return to the demise of the USA thread)

Facebook...is putting me off people I otherwise like. Reducing otherwise sane, mature and interesting adults in the flesh into a series of infantilised, self absorbed, irony laden morons. And my own profile is worse.

Shocking. But not as bad as being in Strawberry Moons on a Friday night...last time I think was when I was 25 and on the pull.

It's a home style magazine I think Alan. For people who have a feature wall in their bedroom, white floorboards and weird vases.... Whilst the Fox is going a little too far, I agree with him on a few points. Especially going out Fri/Sat nights. The bar scene's changed a lot in the last 5 years and the Lane has become a destination for less well endowed areas like Beckenham or Forest Hill. I used to like the more local, less frantic Friday nights when you could eat in a bar without people dancing around you. Who eats in the Bishop after 8pm on a Friday any more? BUT...there is still a reassuring spread of other valuable business types used by the local community on a daily basis, like the joiner who's making me a great door, Walsh Glazing (respect to you, the good value Irish glass fitting massive) and the mighty East Dulwich DIY. I did like it back then but perhaps that was my honeymoon period.

No shame in that. I think I've done that a few times!

RosieH Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Prawns. Someone once said to me that I wouldn't > eat them if they lived on land. Good one. Someone once described them to me as "cockroaches of the sea" and that was it for me.

Gowlett. American Hot. Actress came up all new and flashy and that and not bad but a bit " all fur coat and no knickers" (Edinburgh saying). I find them tasty but a bit soggy. Still, a million Scott/CPC fans will tell me I'm wrong. (But a few less after the predictable sell out).

She's really lovely in real life and lives just off my street. Red Devil - shame on you for nicking one of her long running "fat person" gags.

Seconded on Paradise Vezzer, check out the cool hippy dude that runs it in Paradise City, California and his rather fetching slightly younger lady! Radio Paradise

Thanks people - some stuff to investigate further.... ;-) As an aside, a good reliable wifi connection across the house is a must and I'm struggling with that. Like many, my Virgin modem/wifi router (Netgear) comes into my front room where the TV is but reception in 1st floor rear bedrooms is patchy. I've tried switching to a new channel and raising the router as high as I can but it seems my walls are rather sturdy. And a router on the mantelpiece is downright ugly. I'm seriously considering a cat 5 connection as you suggest Strafer, to a second wifi router on the 1st floor...but all seems a bit much!