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@kev-m, @mjr, @mookyfoo, @derek-m - thank you all for your comments. I did do the setback over Sunday to Monday night (to 16 degrees on the kitchen ro...
My hope, if I ever need to do this, is that it will increase energy use and so costs (obvs, 14 => 16kW), but it should not adversely affect COP (mo...
In the meantime, I've tracked this down, it is the so called radiator exponent n equation, which is used by rad manufacturers to calculate their corre...
I'm putting this here because it is in effect a continuation of this thread. For the past week, I have been fine tuning my heating always on weather...
I had a number of installers take similar positions. They are jobsworths, hiding behind regulations. Solution? Fire them.
It's a minefield. In fact the whole thing is a minefield. As I have said before I prefer using a correction factor, ie you down rate the rads outpu...
As it happens, I have been a fairly close eye on things for the last week. First up, context. Three bed leaky old building in Southern England. Hour...
I wonder if this is something we don't give enough consideration to. I too have noticed my heating takes a very long time to reach temp, sometimes mea...
@alistairgbarron - I had similar painful hoops to jump through, and had the additional constraints caused by a small listed building, the listing limi...
I had a few installer quotes based on the MCS software. They didn't get the job. Good that you are double checking things, typos are easy to do.
@alistairgbarron - sorry, I see now that you are already well ahead of the game on the calculations. I also got a bit confused by the thread/post re-a...
Then the next even more interesting question might be: "Would you still have installed a heat pump if you hadn't been bribed sorry 'incentivised'?" Th...
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