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Ratman

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  1. Its a multifuel stove, but when installing it we had to drop the box from inside the stove and swap out / replace the original adjustment control slide with the modified defra control one. HONESTLY.... its the worst piece of engineering known to man! And cost £110 (its a hole punched / pressed piece of steel with a very poorly welded on lever for left/right control) Would of been better left alone. It serves no purpose other than to loose over half of the open / shut control of the stove, and like i say, lets copious amounts of air through. I have been tempted to refit the original control but have refrained form doing so for insurance and regulation purposes. But listening to most on here it appears that no insurance companies are bothered???! I do try to play by the rules in most cases but this one has tempted me loads.
  2. You would be liable Conor, cos you are the point of contact and direct employee of the client, even if your not doing the job yourself, hence you’ve subbed it out. You should really have EL.
  3. Micks employer i would say mark, (same guy who sent the labourer)
  4. Hey OSP, the one in the house is great, no complaints other than it still draws (imo) that little bit too much air. It produces a roaring flame, not what i’d call a gentle rolling flame. And in turn over a period would burn more logs than necessary, and makes room temperature hard to control and at times, unbearable. If i was to put coal on for an overnight burn, then the fire would be out in the morning. I’m talking 7 hours and all embers are gone it draws that much. This is due to the defra kit. Cant and wont complain on its efficiency and emission control, never get a blackened glass and the ash bed is always even and hardly any! (Pain sometimes when i clean stove out cos wood relies on good bed to draw)
  5. Not really, theres always a definitive end / answer.
  6. Not gospel but..... I’d go with who ever supplies the final bill for the job is the key person to carry liabilities. i.e If you put a rent in for £1k as a subby to do a job for (as before “joe blogs”) and joe bloggs send a man in to help, hes paying you and the additional bod. Its all his bag whatever happens! If you put a rent in for £1k and you do the job all on your own, book stops with you as far as 1st claims go. But ultimately the liabilities are with joe blogs still as he will in the end be cashing up with you, so in turn you would have to chase recompense off him then. (IMO)
  7. Bad idea Rough! You’ll end up with men in paper suits erecting a tent over your piles displaying quarantined area and then you’ll be slapped with a legal bill. Land mines sound like a better option.
  8. You cant contract out liability! If your doing a job for “joe blogs” and you get hurt or cause injury to someone under joe blogs’s command (which you are as your doing the works for him even as a subby with your own insurances etc) then he is responsible for the outcome. IMO you were the greater friend of the two by not perusing..... 3 months off work with no pay, i’d of chased for something. Glad your mended and back in full swing.
  9. You’ll be fine, just crack on, shouldn’t really be any carbon build up as such from only five hours use. Let her rip!!!
  10. What area you from Nathan?
  11. Tidy! ? that their smallest stove? Thinking of putting a tiny stove in my garage, looked at lots of other heating options but keep coming back to a stove. I’m tempted to find an older small stove and refurb it (to a certain degree) as to avoid the modern emissions scandal. Want to be able to shut it down more than that what the one in the house allows.
  12. Cheeky barsteward! [emoji112]
  13. Sleep to think gone i has bed he to.
  14. It appears to be a night of riddles yolky! I’m boxed ?‍♂️
  15. You’ve got a chilli on your piston with no skin attached?
  16. Ratman

    Jokes???

  17. Fully decal your side in a one piece one colour, then stick your new logo on that. You’ll buff it up to somewhere near but cos its oxidised at different rates where your stickers have been, it’ll start to show through again in a matter or months, possibly sooner.
  18. If its mains gas as yellow usually is then no, you will need someone in the know to couple install (legally)
  19. Uhoh! We’re on the verge of having this thread all sewn up again.
  20. Frustrations again Yolky? [emoji6][emoji39]
  21. Ratman

    4x4 pick ups

    You guys are a niche market and require power for / with weight. Your gona struggle the more they press at vehicles / manufacturing cos of emission shite, tractors are marvellous pieces of kit, but they are restricted by roads and slow!!! You need a fine balance, but unfortunately your not high up in the manufacturers listings, hence your been squeezed on your choices. Its a tricky one.
  22. Ratman

    4x4 pick ups

    I think the emission regs and bollocks rulings on diesels etc are going to force you guys in to buying full on commercial vehicles, or the likes of fastrack vehicles.
  23. I am NOT forgiving you for that!
  24. Are you Shrek?

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