I would just like to say

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DanClarke said:
Amazon, the link takes you straight there. Or go to any plumbers merch and ask for a 3/4" BSP blanking cap.
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When we were sort of moved in here, we found all the PER water pipes sticking out of the floor or wall with no ends on at all. We couldn't turn the water on, obvs! We complained to the builder and he sent the plumber back in who used his special tool to crimp end fittings which were male BSP then capped that fitting which was copper and BSP so we have a load of them now. they come in useful when I need to isolate a pipe. Plus two bigger ones on where the shower pipes came out of the wall. They are still on them as I have yet to do the shower!
 
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Seriously 😳 who's going to call me racist.
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Hippo said:
Keeping em shiny eye fink. And dent free. One of the telly chefs had some and was asked about them hanging onnis kitchen wall. Then others chipped in wiv the same comments.
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Thay look good when dented and used we don't entertain people in the kitchen its a work area but if you are open plan I can see the point for show
 
Stanleysteamer said:
A lot of peeps buy an Aga to put on show, they don't use it cos of the cost and problems. They has an ornery cooker tucked up the side that they use most of the time.
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Plus 1 and was really surprised the more I came across ones that weren’t used

99% were ran on oil and even the single ones without the added warming cooker on the side ranged from 20k+ to 26k for the larger ones

Must have cost a fortune to run seeing the oil ones are alight 24/7 that required a service every 6 x months

Some bought solid fuel agas who wanted them converting to oil which required lifting the large cast iron sleeve baffle where I had to use a large petrol angle grinder to shorten them , Jesus they bloody heavy

The hot water cast iron sections were also dam heavy , normally ran to a couple of rads as well , but worse still unless u turned them off in the summer there was no way to control the temperature

Never really understood the hype as could buy a decent second hand car for the same price
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Like me until you said so, they don't dare to put them int dishwasher!!!
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Here are two of them The first (pic 1 & 2) spends its time in and out of the dishwasher and you can see that I do not always towel them dry and they watermark - it is about 7 years old and used frequently.

The second one (pics 3&4( is at least double that age but spends almost all of its time hanging on the rack now 'cos it is just too much for one person. The last pic shows one of the main reasons I do not use it - 26.25kg! I cannot recall the last time it was given the dishwasher treatment or any form of cleaning!!!!

You should be able to see the thickness of both the copper and the nickel and s/s linings. Denting is certainly NOT a problem with mine!

I have other items both lined - sauce pans and unlined - colander, merangue egg-beating bowl and a couple of frying pans - diff sizes etc all bought in france - Villedieu. Hanging on the wall rack means cleaning them, using them is no extra work.

They are a delight to cook with.


I forgot to put the pic on!!!!!!!
 
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Hippo said:
Once came across someone who did that to make a cottage look kitchen. Arga was bort broke'd.
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My ex s-i-l, when still married, fitted an AGA in their bespoke kitchen. It ran some of the heating, the rest was underfloor groundsource heat pumped, which he could do coe they had the land and he could dig all the trenches and fit the pipes. The machinery to run it filled their utility room to the extent that they were barely able to get the washing machine in.
They even ran the AGA in the summer, to heat the hot water or summat, it was barmy.
But the AGA to give it its due did cook very well especially roasts and stuff.
When he was forced to sell the place, the underground pipes to supply the ground source heat pump ran under the land he kept for himself, so he ripped all the machinery out of the utility and put a normal boiler in. It'd be interesting to know what it costs the new owner to heat he place conventionally!
 
Dippypud said:
We had some with copper 'skins' over the base, the heat retention softened the glue holding them on ...

so we had them brazed on but there was some distortion ...
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Not the same thing at all. We had a couple, it is the fact that the whole pan is copper that makes them so fantastic for cooking. No more of the "burning up the side" situation. Totally even and quick cooking. which is why pros use them.
 
... after much debate we ("Me-n-'er") have decided to have our loft access hatch enlarged.
Because she can't get up there without my participation and assistance, and the access is so small and the angle so steep that you bump your shoulder blades on the access hole as you get through. Once up there, you are in a fully floored 24 x 18 room-space.

I think that family developments later this year will see us hosting another of my son's and his kids 24x7 so we need to have all my wifes art-studio stuff accessible to her up there instead.

Our builder came and looked today and said it's probably a day to expose and expand the opening and another day to close and tidy up.

I reckon it's going to cost me £1500. :(
 
Stone56 said:
Thay look good when dented and used we don't entertain people in the kitchen its a work area but if you are open plan I can see the point for show
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I can't, we entertain in the dining part of our lounge diner with all proper "mise en place" but if peeps want to wander into the kitchen and admire the 8 burner cooker and the granite worktops, etc, they are welcome!.
I put the tiles on the wall in a specific pattern and I remarked to W just yessdi that I don't know why I bothered as it can only be seen in one or two places as there is so much "stuff" on the worktops. She disagreed and pointed out where it could be seen.

I had a French girlfriend in Lille once whose parents went away for a fortnight, so I stayed with her for the that time. After dinner one night I noticed her taking all the dirty crocks etc and putting them in a cupboard under the worktop!
What???!!!
Apparently her mum did this all the time!! So she did the same. It sure made the kitchen look a bit tidier but......

Nowt as weird as folk!!!

A kitchen is a working environment, just saying!
 
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