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Dehumidifying is a side effect of cooling the air, so pretty much all air conditioning units are also dehumidifiers... It blows air over the evapora...
About the original question: Flow rate for MVHR is adequate for ventilation, but way too low for air conditioning. Heat capacity of air is only 12...
Yeah refrigerants are complicated. They need to have the right characteristics (enthalpy, pressure, temperature at the vapor/liquid transition) and al...
Next winter, if you haven't installed a heat pump, I second James' recommendation: condensing boilers can run at quite low flow temperature, which is ...
- Comfort and silence (for heating) - Heat storage with radiant slabs - Can be maintained, modified, upgraded DIY - All the tech and regulatory ...
Mine only complains if flow is catastrophically low, otherwise it simply works at higher deltaT, up to 10°C or even 20°C, with a corresponding drop in...
+1 #4 Primary pipes too small so not enough flow, but this one is easy to catch
Awesome! Love the title 🤣
If you took a cheap monobloc A2W heat pump and put it indoors, it'd do exactly what you want, except look pretty perhaps...
This amount of brown in a 2 year old installation would be very worrying as it would indicate quite a lot of oxygen ingress rusting the inside of the ...
If an old radiator was reused, perhaps it was full of sludge that then spread through the circuit. Are there any points of oxygen ingress into the s...
So far, mine hasn't defrosted yet, and the radiant ceiling was finished last month and isn't connected yet. I'll have to wait for next winter to see h...
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