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New learning. Concept of a heat dump is a good one to get longer cycles and side benefit of heat from towel rads upstairs throughout the day. Howeve...
Thanks Toodles! I'll sort this now, as I can see my office temp is climbing (currently 21.3C) and suspect that's because the upper floor is warming ...
Thanks @iancalderbank, I can give that a go, perhaps all upstairs rooms bar my office as a first attempt. Just a note - if TRVs were all down to 1/2 ...
(apologies for post blitzing yet again - posting as find things etc) Architect responded, heat calc was last one sent over however architect pointed...
This AM I’ve had to put the ASHP on the weather curve as it’s simply too warm upstairs with the ASHP running at 42C fixed (seems to be get 1.5V-2C low...
Thanks Derek, I’ll see if can find an hour to do this tomorrow. With the cycling it might be hard to get this however, perhaps recordings every 10 min...
On another note (realise I’m post blitzing but trying to comprehend as much as possible). if currently today I’ve run the system with no weather...
Thanks again for all this. I’ve relayed it to architect and also queried things in the Calc doc as some rooms structure dates etc are wrong and a numb...
This was the battle I had I think in June last year, they were just useless and I asked if we could get other plumbers but was reassured (incorrectly ...
hi Derek, I think the issue was what they suggested in these calcs couldn’t fit and they started going on about adding 2 tall rads with shorter ones (...
hi Derek those are the ones installed. So essentially they were talking about D20 when really should have been talking about D15? And weren’t referrin...
Hi Derek, I have the to hand, but not posting here as has address details, happy to DM you directly if useful? I believe the calcs were done based o...
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