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Excellent find, thanks for posting the link here.
That sounds like a better approach (being able to see and edit if necessary U values). Do you have a link to the Stelrad calculator you can post here?...
Experience certainly should help, but only if applied, and applied intelligently intelligently. One of my quotes looked as though the installer had us...
One thing a spreadsheet based heat loss calculator can do is allow you to indulge in some deliberate whatiffery, change some values and see what diffe...
Thanks for posting the revised estimate, it is also a useful reminder of the need to check and re-check everything, and then check again. The previous...
@paul1098 — rather than using an on site timer, which I think is what you now do, and needs foreknowledge of when you will return, I was thinking of t...
I think @jamespa may be onto something here when he says an a2w heat pump may not be the best choice. Because they run 'low and slow' they take ages t...
It's a bête noire of mine, the widespread modern use of the word. I certainly wasn't having a go at you. When I was still in shorts, models were thing...
Whenever I see the word modelled I am reminded of the triumph of spreadsheets over common sense. Modelling in this context is no more or less than wha...
@paul1098 — as we are getting down to the nitty gritty, now is probably a good time to start your own thread, as @editor suggested. There are as you s...
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