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Last seen: Oct 15, 2026
+1 for everything Concealed FCUs are expensive to install due to all the drywall work. Also an issue for maintenance. That said, your quote is ind...
I don't remember the manufacturer name, but I saw similar products. It looks like a fan coil, you can mount it in a ceiling. There's an air to water h...
UFH is ideal to get max efficiency with a heat pump, but you need a properly designed UFH. - Correct pipe spacing (calculated from heat loss) to del...
Sun getting through the windows: if you don't have solar protection on the windows (blinds, louvred shutters, etc) then the sun can pump close to 1kW/...
+1 that works well If most of the thermal mass is in the slab (the rest being drywall with interior insulation), and you can control the slab temper...
If it's a data cable, current will be minuscule, voltage drop irrelevant. If they run significant current through it then they should call it "power...
In France we had such scheme with wind turbines. Investors own a share of the wind turbine, and cash in a share of the profits, but an overlooked de...
Office (blue) and Living Room (orange) have UFH, running 18°C water from the heat pump about 12 hours a day (on free PV). Living room also has a mob...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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RE: Heat pump branding. Clever, contemporary… or a bit too much?
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RE: Heat Geek installations: share your experiences
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RE: HeatGeek vs Octopus surveys: puzzling disparity - any ideas why?
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RE: Heat Geek Zero Disrupt: Are We Sleepwalking Into Another Race to the Bottom?
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RE: How should the Boiler Upgrade Scheme be reformed?
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RE: Renewables & Heat Pumps in the News
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RE: Why are ASHP installs so expensive?
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RE: Missing flow temperature in Heat Geek proposal
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