Last seen: Sep 4, 2025
drop the nest, you are on a hiding to nothing. it gives no feed back to the pump about required temperatures.. stick with the heat pumps own con...
@prunus a decent controller combines both. i suspect all heat pump controllers have a setting deferring to outside temperature to shut it down complet...
@prunus sorry an on-off control on a heat pump should never be used, or included in an install. the controller should always be used to put a pump ...
@ianjrw just ask for the heat pumps own controller. That’s it.
expansion vessels have a schrader valve so you can reinstate the dry side with a bicycle pump with the appropriate attachment selaed systems can...
@kev-m The heating industry revels in the publics disinterest and and ignorance about heating. Its not helped by poor training that pays lip service t...
they just need to mandate compensation controls, that’ll yield anything between a 10 and 20% decrease in emmisions with better comfort levels in build...
The issue is that an ASHP and boiler is part of a system for which there is no training in the U.K. People buy ASHPs and boilers with out fully compre...
For those who don’t get it at the heart of the issue is a dichotomy in policy. Heat pumps, because they are kw restricted, have to deliver a stable s...
@derek-m that doesn’t change the control strategy to put a heating system in a stable state (room temp) The heat pump performance will be set and un...
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