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James will be along to comment I’m sure. In the meantime could you tell us what tariff you are on and if you are trying to take advantage of low rate...
With the current outside temperatures I'm finding that I don't need heating on at all during the daylight hours. The schedule is set at 22...
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@editor I’m no longer receiving notifications of thread changes that I’ve contributed to. It improved for a short time, when you made the recent post...
@jamespa I think they were at setting "3" although I don't know how near to fully closed that is. It only stopped when I fully opened them - setting ...
@majordennisbloodnok I haven't no. However, I have changed the location of the thermostat to the living room as in this warmer weather leaving it in ...
Possibly not relevant but I can hear noise from some radiators. These are ones where the TRV has been adjusted down; turning them back up again remov...
@editor I haven't been getting notifications for quite some time, except the very occasional one - I've had to be manually checking threads for update...
Calculating the heat loss isn’t a competition whereby the lowest value wins. You want to see more than one quote reporting pretty much the same estim...
@majordennisbloodnok I’m glad I posted this. There seems to be a general agreement here that a few more plants will go down well. Thanks for the sug...
Having consulted with the plant wrangler in chief, it would appear that most of the plants we have love the sunshine, hence why they are in the conser...
@deltona It feels a bit dry and definitely a result of this heating. I never measured it with the gas CH but it was more comfortable and condensation...
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