Last seen: Mar 29, 2025
From my experience I’ve learned the following: the heat loss calculation is definitly an estimate. For starters the u values of the materials and t...
you can play around with the answers to get to the right value. Like you I already knew the heat loss so I changed the build year until I got the righ...
You might want to give Boxt.co.uk a try. At least for me they had octopus level price, but were able to proceed quite quickly. They also give an upfro...
Maybe the analogy is imagining that cars could just drive faster through those single carriage section. All that acceleration and extra friction would...
My answers to your initial questions: 1. They are all close enough and match your usage figure to be right. I’d say the not so local firm is wrong t...
it’s because there are 10kwh hiding in every Liter of oil.
Hi, I think partly the problem is the immediate feedback that the electricity meter provides, versus the oil boiler where (I presume) you just get the...
No answers here, just some observations. Your flow temperature is reasonably high, which maybe indicates slightly smallish radiators and would give ...
I’ve got: 5kW heat pump, but only 2.5kW heat loss, so max consumption of 2.5/3=0.75kW from the heat pump. 9.5kWh battery. Solar doesn’t produce a...
I don’t think there is a problem. Given a water saving shower head and a 5 minute shower, that’s: 4l/min x 5min x 5 = 100l. So even the smallest 150...
just some comments by a door blower tester that they have never seen a higher value than 1 and the fact that in my calculations I could only get close...
I agree, it is weird that we are suppose to trust this whatiffery, but not our own usage data. after all, as was stated above, assuming a linear relat...
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