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Last seen: Jun 1, 2026
The years between oil use and the heat pump (roughly 2019 to 2021) when I used standard mains electricity to heat only the room(s) I was in were like ...
@jamespa — one of the big problems with historical oil consumption is you probably only have scrappy records (if that) of past oil deliveries that may...
@woofers64 — I do agree the top two definitions and their distinction could be clarified and that is why I said I am sure @editor will attend to it.
I think that is an excellent suggestion, I am sure @editor will attend to it. To be clear. I see flaw-less as fault-less, and a fault or defect is s...
I'm with @editor on this one. Flawless as the top category is fine. It does not mean perfect, it means flaw-less, no flaws. A flaw is a fault of a def...
I don't think so. If you look at the bottom of the three charts, there there is always water flow, apart from one brief moment near the DHW spike. I h...
@painter26 — good idea. Please do let us know what he says.
Not on a regular basis, no, but it is handy to have it there to confirm once in a long while that the wired controller flow rate makes sense. BTW, I...
@robs — thank you for your as ever valuable comments. The only one I might quibble with is this one: Only we have so far not managed to produce a...
I did say (but didn't call it a boundary): "that only fools and horses use whatiffery (modelling) in complex messy dynamic systems" which certainly in...
I beg to differ. I really could not make any useful predictions from my past heating oil use. Common sense based checks will kick in before oil use ba...
Again, agreed. There is also the likely change from timed to continuous heating, which further complicates things. For all practical purposes, using p...
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