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The problem I’ve found over the years is the consumer law in the UK isn’t fit for purpose and requires potential small claims court action. I’ve known...
@jamespa I’ve had similar issues with things over the years and found that manufacturers will more often than not stick there head in the sand while b...
@agentgeorge Boston Lincs.
@jamespa the flexis have been in a horizontal position before and still did it. The most I can do is maybe arrange the clamps in a better arrangement ...
@jamespa this is what the pipe work looks like after they moved the flexis to a vertcle position to comply with the primary pro requirement for them t...
Update: installer contacted Vaillant to have them come out to it as a warranty call, but Vaillant are saying I might have to pay £98 if they think i...
@jamespa can you take a pic of the primaries inside the loft especially how they are clipped and if the copper pipes touch the wooden trusses. This wo...
@dgclimatecontrol yes the wall fixings are mostly around the flexis I think the bottom one is actually on the pipework leaving the rear of the unit. T...
@toodles it’s just doing an ECO water run as we speak and power consumption is about 1500w and I can only here the humming in the utility. The rumblin...
@jamespa well I set it to on yesterday and have a night setback of 18 until 6am. This morning at about 6:15am it roared up and I could hear the hummin...
What I’m trying to say is I want the solar inverter on the pw3 to just export not charge the batteries or for the batteries to affect the FIT meter, a...
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