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RE: Surface mount or bury primaries for heat pump installation?

Watts Microflex Duo, intended for burial, about 45€/m, with 2x 26/32mm Barrier PEX. It is quite stiff and difficult to manoeuver but it does the job...

5 days ago
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RE: Hypothetical House Design

The drawing is fine and perfectly understandable except "NRV" which has the symbol of a pump but I guess "NRV" means "Non return valve" or "Check valv...

6 days ago
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RE: Hypothetical House Design

If flow is too low, the heat pump will probably throw a fault. High flow is not a problem for the heat pump, it'll work fine. Higher flow gives lowe...

1 week ago
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RE: Hydrogen Ready

Oh my, bureaucracy at its finest! Does that imply that the reason why both my PV inverters and heat pump have a 8 pin connector with extremely basic...

1 week ago
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RE: Hydrogen Ready

In fact inverters with a bit of local energy storage could also do that, if programmed accordingly. Sadly it doesn't seem the current hardware is prog...

1 week ago
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RE: Hydrogen Ready

I think we're still going to try hydrogen for residential heating on a small scale, then walk it back after a few buildings get launched into low eart...

1 week ago
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RE: Summer heat is becoming the new winter cold in the UK. What are you doing about it?

Hmm I should have explained it better... Problem with these devices: they have only one pipe. Thus they suck in already conditioned air out of the r...

1 week ago
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RE: Summer heat is becoming the new winter cold in the UK. What are you doing about it?

You guys have it easy It's engineering: calories in, calories out. What I had: stone house, built 1732, 50cm thick walls, estimated thermal mass...

1 week ago
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RE: Hypothetical House Design

I'd say it's up to you to decide between these two behaviors: * Manual balancing valves * For example Caleffi 132 which has a manual valve and flo...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Struggling to Find a Top Heat Pump Installer? We Can Connect You With the Best Installers in the UK

Same here lol The fact the house had been heated for 40 years by a 12kW ground source heat pump could provide a bit of a hint about the actual heat ...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Hypothetical House Design

UFH manifolds are horribly expensive usually, except Chinese models. However manifolds for domestic water (or for heating but not UFH) are quite cheap...

2 weeks ago
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RE: vaillant arotherm plus - Failure - DHW

Without information about where and how it was measured, this is useless. Don't even know if DC or AC. EBUS has 20VDC between the two wires when idl...

2 weeks ago
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