Detached Victorian renovation, London.
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Harry Flashman said:
I have this!
The 9 volt backup batteries in the wired fire alarms (one in every single room) have started going. They always seem to go at 2am and start beeping. In a manner that carries through the whole house, or wakes up a child. This has been leading to bleary eyed, sweary, ill-tempered use of this ladder at antisocial times.
FYI check inside the fire alarm unit/an online manual, for the exact type of battery.The 9 volt backup batteries in the wired fire alarms (one in every single room) have started going. They always seem to go at 2am and start beeping. In a manner that carries through the whole house, or wakes up a child. This has been leading to bleary eyed, sweary, ill-tempered use of this ladder at antisocial times.
I learned the hard way that only a very specific 9V battery worked.
I replaced the battery with a Duracell 9V, it randomly would trigger the alarm. I then purchased a (identical to any normal person) different Duracell battery (but the model specified in the Manual) = no problem whatsoever!
jimmyjimjim said:
Harry Flashman said:
Lady F has used Mumsnet, and exited, stating that it is a poisonous, vicious bed of hate and bullying.
I occasionally browse mumsnet, specifically, 'AIBU', or as I tend to think of it 'HUAIB' or 'IABU' - as it's occasionally entertaining to watch a fight.Some of the Feminist subfora are eye-opening. It's a deeply, deeply unpleasant place, full of unpleasant people.
Harry Flashman said:
The 9 volt backup batteries in the wired fire alarms (one in every single room) have started going. They always seem to go at 2am and start beeping. In a manner that carries through the whole house, or wakes up a child. This has been leading to bleary eyed, sweary, ill-tempered use of this ladder at antisocial times.
Been there got that tshirt, I've now gone for a 10 year battery type to save my sanity & limbs.judas said:
paralla said:
It's a moooi Raimond II R89. You often see them in flash restaurants or hotel lobbies with high ceilings. We got ours from twentytwentyone in Islington. Make sure you are sitting down before you click the links.
https://www.twentytwentyone.com/products/moooi-rai...
https://www.moooi.com/eu/product/raimond-ii/
https://www.google.com/search?q=moooi+raimond&...
Oof! That's gonna be a hard one to sell... https://www.twentytwentyone.com/products/moooi-rai...
https://www.moooi.com/eu/product/raimond-ii/
https://www.google.com/search?q=moooi+raimond&...
JeffreyD said:
Can I ask what you mean "oversized rads"?
Do you mean radiators that are bigger than the minimum recommended or is it more technical than that?
I've just put a new boiler in and need to replace 41 radiators over the next few months. I was looking at smart thermostats but not sure about the costs.
Exactly that- just much bigger surface area/size than the BTU calculations for the room required. It means yiu can run the boiler in its most efficient zone, and the rads are warm to the touch rather than hot and still heat the rooms nicely.Do you mean radiators that are bigger than the minimum recommended or is it more technical than that?
I've just put a new boiler in and need to replace 41 radiators over the next few months. I was looking at smart thermostats but not sure about the costs.
The a evohome system also learns how the quickly rooms heat, so uses the boiler as efficiently as possible.
I used steel, not cast iron rads. These change temperature faster and are better for a modern heating system that turns rooms off and on, rather than running constantly. Also way cheaper and easier to deal with on installation (can be wall mounted, for example, rather than having to rest in the floor).
Edited by Harry Flashman on Saturday 22 January 07:54
You’re not grumpy Harry, you’re just older 
5 years in to home ownership & we are out of cash (we had an extension to have a new kitchen/office last year & made the single, cobbled back street garage a double so we could actually get a car in it
) but are at the decorating & garden stages now, I’ll do a thread one day…
5 years in to home ownership & we are out of cash (we had an extension to have a new kitchen/office last year & made the single, cobbled back street garage a double so we could actually get a car in it
) but are at the decorating & garden stages now, I’ll do a thread one day… paralla said:
After I nearly killed myself when I fell off the very top step on my step ladder and came crashing down onto the glass table I hired a scaffold tower, carried it up three flights of stairs in pieces, assembled it, cleaned the (89cm diameter) light fitting in our front room that has a fifteen foot high ceiling, dismantled the tower and carried it back down three flights of stairs in pieces. What a PITA!
While I had the tower I replaced the pendant cable with a longer one so now the light hangs much lower within reach of my stepladder.
Ouch! Is it silly to ask how the glass table is?While I had the tower I replaced the pendant cable with a longer one so now the light hangs much lower within reach of my stepladder.
We have currently been working on our hall stairs and landing, which is nicely balanced between being a nice original setup while also quite moderate. However scraping wall paper off a ceiling that is 22ft up, while stood on a combi ladder, certainly focuses the mind!
dhutch said:
paralla said:
After I nearly killed myself when I fell off the very top step on my step ladder and came crashing down onto the glass table I hired a scaffold tower, carried it up three flights of stairs in pieces, assembled it, cleaned the (89cm diameter) light fitting in our front room that has a fifteen foot high ceiling, dismantled the tower and carried it back down three flights of stairs in pieces. What a PITA!
While I had the tower I replaced the pendant cable with a longer one so now the light hangs much lower within reach of my stepladder.
Ouch! Is it silly to ask how the glass table is?While I had the tower I replaced the pendant cable with a longer one so now the light hangs much lower within reach of my stepladder.
We have currently been working on our hall stairs and landing, which is nicely balanced between being a nice original setup while also quite moderate. However scraping wall paper off a ceiling that is 22ft up, while stood on a combi ladder, certainly focuses the mind!
Harry Flashman said:
The a evohome system also learns how the quickly rooms heat, so uses the boiler as efficiently as possible.
Out of interest do you have your Evohome system serviced annually? I didn't until recently when the batteries started failing on on the controllers and the whole thing ended up as one giant comms fault.Fella came out and asked when I'd changed the batteries and I said "never". He replaced them and reprogrammed the system.
No he's booked in annually to give it a once over along with the boiler and HW cylinder.
TBH it never even occurred to me.
He's also going to powerflush the whole thing in the summer - the water in the glass valve things is rank.
Evohome needs maintenance now again - who knew? :-)
Never had to do this. System comms work fine in normal use. Big problem came when I accidentally reset the system. I posted the process to fix it on a separate thread it was awful.
I keep a load of spare, normal Trv heads in the garage so if the system fails, I can just run the boiler and heat rooms!
I keep a load of spare, normal Trv heads in the garage so if the system fails, I can just run the boiler and heat rooms!
Harry Flashman said:
Never had to do this. System comms work fine in normal use. Big problem came when I accidentally reset the system. I posted the process to fix it on a separate thread it was awful.
Ouch,Harry Flashman said:
I keep a load of spare, normal Trv heads in the garage so if the system fails, I can just run the boiler and heat rooms!
LOL, good idea!FWIW I think this is the fella that failed. I'd seen it and didn't know what it did. Certainly didn't know it was battery powered. They were goosed as they'd been in for 3.5 years, best replace them annually. I knew about the ones in the TRV's but not this one.
https://www.plumb2u.com/PBSCProduct.asp?ItmID=3258...
dxg said:
Would you guys recommend an Evohome system?
I'm working from home downstairs a lot of the time at the moment. Which would be fine, if it were not for the fact that the single-zone heating does a brilliant job of overheating the upstairs while underheating the downstairs...
I would personally for this year. I bought them at the start of lockdown as my wife & I were working from home all the time & still are. I'm working from home downstairs a lot of the time at the moment. Which would be fine, if it were not for the fact that the single-zone heating does a brilliant job of overheating the upstairs while underheating the downstairs...
We have our offices set to 20 up and down through the day & the rest of the house set to 15. admittedly when you walk out of your office your like jesus the house is freezing but I think it's been a really good purchase for me and definitely kept my gas bill down since being at home.
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