Last seen: Dec 9, 2024
Thanks James, I do wonder about that LLH. It appears the challenge Ive always had still remains. The Eskimo rads seem to work very well at low tem...
As a summary I had numerous issues with the heat engineers/plumbers on a project that was an extension and full re wire/re plumb and re insulate proje...
@kenbone I’m Suffolk based
that’s ideally what I’d like to have done to (once current plumbers sort the rad sizing under the contract, I don’t want them touching anything else)....
Hi Ken, lagging is done just used an old photo for the detail of pipes. I’m hoping for rad upsize replacement then will look later in the year for rem...
4 days later, with guests over the weekend I left things mostly alone. I did end up changing the secondary pump speed to 1/3 as lock shields became a...
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: ...
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