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Just to add that the team ahead of our selection know very well what they do, it is just that tight budgetary constraint..
We are evaluating the Grant R290. Just because some installers seem to be able to deliver them at well below the cost of Vaillants and the like. Ju...
@jamespa Need to find a good thread on the effectiveness of WC control approaches.. Particularly for Vaillant, Mitsubishi and Grant
That is also my sense, @bash . As silly things can be done to extensions of heating pipes over the lifetime of a building... There may be heating s...
Yes @bash , aside not having them install, what I saw was truly impressive! Additionally to being absolutely fantastic technically, he was very consid...
@cathoderay yes, but to be fair, the less than clear regulation has been updated decisively. Made us consider having the ODU in the space between us a...
I was very pleased with the Aira survey. Even if (more on that later) it did not last more than 15 minutes. They booked the survey a few weeks in ad...
Tried the old watson search and this is what it found on British Gas (...) I am curious about where the rate of heat pump installs is, vs gas boiler...
I am not planning on getting hands on but will try to get a standard plumber to handle it, in advance on the ASHP install. Like that the estimates do ...
@bash yes, I know what you mean. I see that disrupt is to a large extent the disruption in one's home. So if the pipework needs to run longer but...
@mike-patrick + some installers focus on the spec/new build market and only do retrofit when time allows.
Thanks, I did have a go at programming an ESP board but something did not work the first or the nth time and eventually moved on. 😉 So I never...
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