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Last seen: Jan 7, 2026
is the house warm enough?
Over the last 3 years I've done a huge house renovation. I could tell so many stories about it but I'm not sure you would believe me. Sounds dramati...
13 degrees! is that a typo? who installed that?
@georgea It defrost more when working hard in cold/humid weather. The only way to get it to defrost less is to make it work less hard and produce le...
@jamespa We have a wood burner, and use it. But one day they might be banned. All this is pretty depressing to be honest. During the build we ha...
@jamespa hmmm..... one to ponder. I've no idea how dry or wet the soil is. the old part of the house is from 18th century. But, I've put a 20K...
@jamespa yeah, LVT direct to it, very thin profile. maybe 10-15mm on top of pipe
@jamespa we did have this discussion during the build. I was quoted 10-15k to dig up all the floors and insulate them, and some were in an old cott...
@jamespa The LLH is above, which typical max flow and return the system gets too. Taking it out sounds like a plan, but a) I'm no plu...
@jamespa I've done this last winter somewhere. I got some good advice then. Nub of it is, I think, poor design between UFH and rads. UFH gets mo...
1) talk to your neighbour, that's unacceptable noise, and try to work through to a solution that keeps relationships and works for all 2) If 1 fails...
@editor the size matches the heat loss calc they did. But, they assumed there was some insulation in one floor where there was none. They installed th...
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