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@richard24738 insulation won't transmit noise. But any support between piping and roof space would benefit from being vibration absorbing rubber lined...
That's normal for smaller pumps, such as home central heating ones, the pipework takes the weight, but the pipe supports should then have some cushion...
Looks like a gents urinal at a music festival. Only a matter of time until someone pi$$es into it.
If the hydronic piping to radiators or UFH is correctly sized, there should be little noise. Noise tends to be caused by one or more of these factors:...
The problem with ducting or enclosing a ASHP is adding external static pressure (ESP) to the fan. The fan impeller is designed to move large volumes o...
Our log burner will be used for supplementary heating when the weather turns and the dark nights draw in. We don't really need to light it, but it's a...
Hi @Graham Brennand, Grant's installers don't seem very consistent on glycol. Grant recommend it, but a lot of their systems, mine include, use water ...
Well ideally @johnmo, but I have a coupe of things that work against that; I have a 22 rad system over 3 floors, 28mm CU primary, 22 and 15mm Cu secon...
@marvinator80 that's interesting. I know from your previous install pictures you would be struggling to make space for an internal volumiser. The 3kW ...
I'd be a little cautious about this generalisation Martin. Most F-Gas refrigerant engineers have specialist training and competency that comes at a pr...
@dodgyknee hi, here's Group 46 parameters changed from default for me, default in [ ] 46 00 = 3 [0] heater enabled in supplementary mode 46 01 = 4...
@dodgyknee this sounds familiar Yup, I played around, got the supplementary heating indicator to appear on the Grant controller, so all appeared to ...
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