saving sash windows in Oxford

[Anonymous]

What a load of rubbish. If you want to remove 2 radiators, this is what you do:

Turn water off
Turn boiler off
Connect hose to bottom radiator (will have drain plug)
Open drain plug, let radiator drain
Open all other radiators at top (with rad key)
Let everything drain
Pull radiators out
Push pipes under floor
Go under floor, connect each pair of pipes with a bit of hose
Secure joints
Refill system

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Even if you don't want to do that, what the plumbers are saying is a load of rubbish, sounds to me like they're just drumming up work. If they needed to change the gas, fair enough, but its only a bit of pipe.

 

[Anonymous]

I'll have to do some research, as they both said the same thing. Both were Aga engineers, as we need to move the rayburn - Oil.

Neither said it with any prompting, just said it was new regulations, they have to give a certificate of completion and when they do this the whole system must comply with regs.
Not sure which.

I'll get a local plumber to pop in and quote on the rads only and see what he says.

Graham

 

[Anonymous]

Some people seem to muddle up uPVC windows and double glazing. You can have double glazing in anything you want, wood, steel (like Crittal), wrought iron (like Tudor) or even, heaven forbid, plastic. But don't get the idea that Part-L is about uPVC frames. It's the plastics industry's fault.

 

[Anonymous]

...and although written ten years ago, this article by Jonathan Taylor, first published in The Building Conservation Directory, 1996, is still worth reading. The relevant development in the last decade is that rather more people think that burning fossil fuel is a BAD IDEA.



The Conservation and Thermal Improvement of Timber

 

[Anonymous]

Did you save them in the end?

 

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately not, the developer had removed them all by the time I went back to leave them a letter. All that nice wood (and glass) gone, such a shame, such a waste.

 

[Anonymous]

Some call it progress, and regeneration.

Sob.


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