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Thanks Toodles, hopefully I can get there. Does look like a lot of rad changes incoming however due to a complete mess up by the plumbers but will s...
So plumbers have sent over adjusted calcs……… This puts all rooms basically bar my office, the main bathroom and downstairs toilet at watt defici...
thabks toodles for the balancing tip, that’s definately got me further. When it hit 20C last night was a huge joy. Drayton seem to do themselves...
Thanks Derek, seems consistently the TRV side. Balancing with the Drayton key seemed to push downstairs up, just dropping living room 2 rads to 5/6 ...
Unfortunately can't see any indication. I've for now put Bed 1 on 3/6 using the Drayton tool, Bed 2 on 3/6 also. Bed 4 one is on 4/6 and one on 3/6...
For balancing, finding the order in which between upstairs and downstairs heat up is somewhat difficult to pin down. So approach I've taken was: ...
Just wanted to say a thank you to everyone on the thread again. Funnily enough ahead of the Drayton balancing key arriving tomorrow was watching...
Hi Ian, turned out just a production number, got it confirmed with Drayton. Rather confusing thing to have lol. Had hoped it was a eureka moment but a...
Rabbit hole over, Drayton responded that number is just a production number. Looking under TRVs I believe the flow rate is indicated by the number fac...
This shows difference between the landing radiator (shows a 6) which is performant versus the living 2 small radiator (shows a 3) Unsure what the ce...
thabks Derek it was actually that video that pointed me in the direction of Drayton TRV balancing as a comment in there observed little control with t...
This is what’s shown on the worse performing rad under the TRV balancing process found in this video:
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