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@chandykris Sounds like a pretty poor state of affairs. Hopefully once it is in and commissioned it will work fine and this will drift into a bad mem...
@toodles So that would imply what I thought (perhaps I'm too cynical): it is put in to separate problem responsibility between the heat pump and the s...
Has anyone got any information on how/why they justify a buffer tank in their install? Everyone seems really happy with the install and running so I ...
@johnr We currently have an oversized (seriously oversized) pump in the airing cupboard by the bedroom door at the moment and I don't hear that and I'...
The earliest it could start to be installed would be June! I would hope it would be fixed by then or, prior to install start, to have the discussion ...
Cheers - it certainly seems like it ought not to be an issue so that's good.
@toodles Thanks! In my case, the pipes would run where your soil pipe does and into the loft (our soffits are probably 40-50cm wide) Our bedroom win...
I had a Heat Geek engineer around yesterday who was vacillating between a 10kW Vaillant Arotherm Plus and a 7kW, the reason being that the 7kW has a s...
Just to follow up after my design consultation visit. Apparently for a R290, positions of drains don't matter but doors and windows do. It can go un...
It's quite possibly the case. As an example, Vaillant's Arotherm plus has 0.6kg of R290 in it () If that is suddenly released into the area around th...
Right! Obviously, insisting on clearances for bbq cylinders is impossible to enforce but installations of HP can be. It seems weird that we can have ...
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