You can all laugh now that that took 3 days (not whole days, had kids and stuff, it's half term).
Have not air-pressure tested yet because I'm out of JG 22-15mm adaptors. If any of those joints are faulty there will be some swearing!
Just got to pop the first level assembly on one end (secondary stop valve, pressure reducer and take off for garden taps pre-secondary house stopcock. Think I'll just leave a 22mm compression coupler on the end and add the rest of the take offs later.
The connection to the mains riser will require one 90 deg bent pipe and a compression elbow.
But I was impressed with 2 things:
The Surefire 2 blow torch recommended here with propane worked really well - as promised, any angle and the pick up, ignite, use and put down no flame is a boon to not setting the roof on fire.
and
is actually a *very* effective heat mat. Zero charring on the purlin and good protection of walls and ceilings.