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What's funny is the heat pump says its only using 21kwh a day but I know our normal use is around 10, so any idea where the remaining 20kwh might be b...
You can do some ballpark maths to see if it is doing OK. E.g. if the outside temperature is -2 over a 24 hour period and your flow temperature was 4...
Cycling might happen if it is controlled by a room thermostat. The heat pump runs hard (and noisily) to get to a high +40 LWT until the room stat stop...
Yes, you would need to reduce the pressure to the correct value for your system (usually 1 to 1.5 bar when cold). And as @jamespa says, disconne...
The heat loss differs depending on the pipe diameter (and flow temperature, presumably). Here are some of the numbers I could find: 15mm 7.89 W/m22m...
Something similar happened to me once with a gas system boiler. The filling loop hadn't been closed properly and it was pushing up the pressure over t...
I guess I'm wrong about the efficiency but the sound power level of the Grant is 65 dB vs 54 dB for the Vaillant and 52 dB for the Logic. More than 10...
I'm far from an expert, @dorkypark, but my understanding is that openings like air bricks are only an issue if within 1m of the bottom of an R290 heat...
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