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No matter how happy we are with our usual gas engineer, it would be too hard a test for any gas engineer to stay neutral when discussing getting rid o...
@jamespa I am all for pre engineering… Would I be dreaming that mcs/bus have a service agreement with response times? That is all i can think cou...
Thanks for sharing, ours is looking fairly different. But your compact summary of the process sounds great, will try to use for ours Before any r...
As someone that has leveraged and invested based on the current UK system of not paying for capacity, justifying it based on planned usage of an EV, b...
Many of the estimates we received mention IWA and RECC. I try to not read much into it. As @jamespa says, an installer is not expected to be able to e...
Thanks. I am struggling to reconcile net0 with policymakers settling for reactive action from the DNOs. Can anything else but preemptive work from the...
@etchedpixels I understand you are running air/air on it, so how many units do you have and how many rooms do not have one? Otherwise people readin...
Good point, again, renewables seem to be treated as special as if there was no net0 target..
Thanks for sharing. Treating a domestic heatpump (that will often be below 16A, which as 3.7kW means the heatpump would deliver well over 10kW of h...
Difficult to estimate in your case. No concerns with the extreme case of one wall/ceiling unit per room. But without seeing thermal conductivity data ...
I may understand a delay, but a refusal seems plain wrong. Even if there were very restrictive conditions of that supply to start with. Like a 60A fus...
I found some in this report from the Building Research Establishment (BRE) group. It supports the view that vast majority have internal solid walls:...
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