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It's not what people think of the performance guarantee that has been put on one side, it is the guarantee itself. Despite a reasonably thorough searc...
I'm not so sure. If the onus is on the customer to spot the deficit, then why do Heat Geek need to monitor the customer's system? We don't know how it...
I agree, but... There are accounts of people thinking they had the guarantee, only to find out they didn't, because although they found a Heat Geek ...
The key difference with a heat pump compared to the vast majority of consumer products is that it is meant to be designed to match the property. In ot...
It's here. It also answers my earlier question about how long the guarantee lasts for (5 years) (which @donciccio has also answered above).
@jo2255 — I agree with @editor, you are definitely not over-thinking this. There is a mismatch between apparent heat loss and apparent capacity. I say...
Ye Gods! Trying to penetrate this stuff is like trying to drill a hole in concrete with a cocktail stick! And it is not helped at all by the recent MC...
Another way of looking at this is to say that at heat pump flow temperatures, a radiator will output around half of what it would put out at fossil fu...
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...
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