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One thing I’ve realised tonight. My rads have Drayton TRV4s. After watching some lockshield videos as was finding audibly there’s very little control ...
thanks @iancalderbank, I’ll have a peruse. Builder sent me a message from plumbers stating internal 32mm duo pipe with 1” irons to 28mm copper p...
On no course not permanent, just mean the point of top up, when the worse living room peaks today I’ll give this a whirl. Will also be good to see wha...
thanks Derek, will give that a go. I presume do this when the room kind of caps temp with the ASHP And the push to 21c and record approx kw added?
Thanks Ian, found a 400/800/1200W heater that I can get here tomorrow via Amazon. Will give that a blast and report back. Today I decided to ju...
I think the issue would be everything’s been done from underneath? As ceilings were removed due to asbestos artex, it gave them that route. And in the...
In an effort to summarise observations so far from everyone, I'm trying to keep a list to go back to the builder/architect with at some point. P...
The front of the house is pretty south facing, so those rooms (Living 1, 2, Bed 1 and 2) tend to get solar gain. However the 2 poor performing rooms ...
Thanks Derek, would it be worth measuring Bed 1 (above Living 2) as well once this is all setup. And also potentially the reported room temps as wel...
Thanks Derek, I'll look at calibration before next tests. Yes the Eskimo seem to stick with having a better thermal output, I seem to recall on some...
Fail 3 times for me to read as interrupted. Then hoped to get the min 40 reading but ASHP had switched off. Can see though that rad 1 started to ge...
Sorry Derek could you elaborate on that? Not sure. And I suspect not. We moved in ahead of completion, as project was running late. They i...
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