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Ah, that makes sense.
Can you clarify a bit please. I thought decorators caps CLOSED the valve off so there was no risk of them opening? I would have thought just removin...
That's good to know, thanks. I'll definitely be using TRVs as last resort.
Indeed. I've been out most of the day but monitoring. The downstairs living area was 22.4c at 7am but rose to 23.3 by mid-morning. At 14:30 it drop...
@jamespa Thanks James. The temps are crazy upstairs - it's hitting 26c on the landing. I've closed down all upstairs and then cracked it open 0.25 t...
Last night I set the schedule to be 25c 24/7, a temp it can't reach so it is now running continuously. Looking at the sparse data available to me, I ...
Must be a recent thing. I've added this to my safe senders and will see how that goes. MS do some strange things with their Spam/Junk filtering: the...
@jamespa Thanks James. I already have the article on balancing and I don't think that, overall, the system is that far out: tweaking LSVs now rather ...
I've been thinking about this over the last few days, following the latest Podcast where flow rates are discussed - this was mentioned in passing but ...
I did check and I was subscribed, still am. Didn't receive a notification about this message or the following ones by Agent George!! ( @editor ) ...
What I've found with Octopus is difficulty getting to speak to someone who actually knows how these things work in practice - i.e. not in a generic he...
It's good that you can keep the whole house warm with the heat pump only producing heat at that period - during those gaps, a lot of the rooms in my h...
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