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Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues
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Why don't you stick a really big gas boiler in, and just forget all the energy saving for now? Then install your ground source heating when properly ready.
Something like this? http://www.plumbnation.co.uk/site/vaillant-ecotec-65kw-commercial-boiler/
That's 65kw - costs £2.5k to buy + say £1-2k to install to existing pipework. You'd be toasty warm.
Or you are not on mains gas? So you need a LPG tank and boiler?
Not on mains gas......
LPG supply is always going to be the same issue as oil. Oil is going to be 'easier' in many ways for supply.
Still need new cylinder etc etc. plus replacement pipework( no one in cluding us wants to use pipe work that's been a court case in case it fails..too much risk of issue of responsibility should there be a problem again).0 -
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You could just become poor, like me. No IFA required.... that must be moneysaving!Think we need to part company with our IFA. Shame, relationship lasted about 15 years, now it appears he is overcharging us. OH not happy, I feel sad and it will be awkward as he lives nearby. Plus the hassle of finding another one.
Thread on savings board, but I don't understand all the terms.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »Because, I'd assume, pointing is something done by builders etc as part of the job. Nobody "just points" ..... do they?
Yes, they do, absolutely they do.0 -
You are going to redo *all* the pipework? You could pressure-test it to make sure it's sound. Most of it is just going to be pipes under floor boards going to radiators. Are you going to replace all those too? And pull all the floors up?No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0
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You are going to redo *all* the pipework? You could pressure-test it to make sure it's sound. Most of it is just going to be pipes under floor boards going to radiators. Are you going to replace all those too? And pull all the floors up?
No, nothing under floors.
Its all a bit odd GDb, if you were here I could point at it, and it would start to make sense, but.....you're not!0 -
lostinrates wrote: »No, nothing under floors.
Its all a bit odd GDb, if you were here I could point at it, and it would start to make sense, but.....you're not!
You're right.
No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »Because, I'd assume, pointing is something done by builders etc as part of the job. Nobody "just points" ..... do they?
There you go. Question put to the experts, and answered. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/uk.d-i-y/al2Q1qYDQXcGB
14:31 (27 minutes ago)
I know someone with OCD and Asperger's Syndrome who rather fancies a
career pointing brickwork. I imagine that's also the fiddly part of the
work that many builders detest.
Is it possible to make a living just doing pointing, and how would
he/she go about getting trained up?
John Williamson
14:39 (19 minutes ago)
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Find a local building contractor willing to take them on. On the job
training shouldn't take long.
Having said that, most bricklayers I've known have done the pointing as
they build the wall, while pointing paving is done after laying. The
only real opening I can see would be to for the person to offer to do
repointing on old buildings, which would involve raking out the old
stuff and putting new in. Mostly, it needs doing every 25 - 30 years.
It's not hard to learn.
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Tciao for Now!
John.
Phil L
14:52 (6 minutes ago)
GB wrote:
> I know someone with OCD and Asperger's Syndrome who rather fancies a
> career pointing brickwork. I imagine that's also the fiddly part of
> the work that many builders detest.
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> Is it possible to make a living just doing pointing, and how would
> he/she go about getting trained up?
there's companies that do just this, they could ask them. If they've never
done it before it can be extremely mononotous, especially in cold weather as
there's very little movement going on, and in hot weather it's no fun as
there's no getting out of the sun.
Also, if they have any kind of phobias about heights, they'll be wasting
their time as 90% of the work is either from ladders or scaffold.
Like all sectors of the construction industry, it's famine and feast, but
moreso with pointing as almost all of it will be on old buildings, and
relatively little between the months of Novemeber and February due to frost,
another caveat - don't apply unless happy operating a grinder, often for
days or even weeks at a time, wearing goggles, gloves, hardhat etc, and
again, standing on ladders (there's rarely enough money in a re-pointing job
to pay for scaffolding) so sturdy boots are a must as standing on a metal
rung for 7 hours at a time is overrated.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
Actually, I have done repointing, and after a few drinks could probably be persuaded to have a go again. Its not 'hard' as in labouring hard. It is a !!!!!! on the condition of hands, and its rather boring.
It might yet be that we end up doing some repointiing here, but I'd rather not, because its the kind of thing that once you commit to you have to do and its also hard to know when to stop. I'm not sure I want to wholly repoint and 'Disney-fy' the place.0 -
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