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Last seen: Oct 11, 2025

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RE: Fitting emitters with output greater than room heat loss.

@jancold yes it’s fine to oversize them, you can just limit their output as required with the valves. It gives you some more flexibility as to room...

10 months ago

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Thermostats, Volumisers, Buffer Tanks, TRVs, Pumps, Piping, Valves, Radiators & Controls

RE: Do thick walls make for warm houses?

@robl Thanks, thats interesting 🙂

10 months ago

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Insulation

RE: Do thick walls make for warm houses?

@sunandair So my take on it would be that having the walls thermal mass inside the insulation layer, would act as a thermal store and be ideal for 24/...

10 months ago

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Insulation

RE: Heat Pump SCOPs – The Truth Might Not Be What You Think

Two other things that greatly effect SCOP but havent been mentioned are the climate where you are living and what you deem to be a comfortable interna...

10 months ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: Heat loss with gas usage.

Its a big house Alan so getting an accurate heat loss will be important. If I were you I would try and go lower than 54C with your boiler during a col...

11 months ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: New Samsung 12KW Heat Pump Help

@dinhp dont have second thoughts about your weather compensation setting. Lower is better for COP. Im not sure what you mean by: Samsung manual o...

11 months ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: New Samsung 12KW Heat Pump Help

@dinhp Ive worked out the daily COP below and added my Outside Air Temperature, yours might be quite a bit cooler depending on where you live: ...

11 months ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: New Samsung 12KW Heat Pump Help

@dinhp I have a Samsung, so happy to answer any questions I can. It seems you have done an excellent job of altering the settings and I cant believe...

11 months ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: Samsung Gen6 16kW tribulations

@emceed even something like these taped to your pipes with insulation over the top will give you some idea what’s going on if you don’t want to spend ...

11 months ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: Samsung Gen6 16kW tribulations

@emceed I assume you have a 3 way valve controlling the direction of water flow to either the space heating or DHW. Its possible that they can stick I...

11 months ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: Samsung Gen6 16kW tribulations

@emceed Hi. Im not an installer but as no one else has answered you, I will try and help. 28mm copper pipes can move about 10 kW of heat at 0.9 m/...

11 months ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: How can I programme a setback for my Samsung Gen6 8kW heat pump?

@mike-h Thanks for that clear explanation Mike. Very useful.

11 months ago

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