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Our experience of two UK summers with the Strada fan-assisted rads in a barn in Herts is that they reduce bedroom temps by around 5C on a hot day with...
We have installed Jaga Strada fan-assisted units which work well with our ASHP and provide light cooling in summer. They are conventional rads but J...
This is a bit off topic but mention of PCBs reminded me of an incident a few months back that may be of general interest. We had a 5yo Bosch tumble ...
Mike - sorry to hear about your failed Grant HP. Just wondering whether it can be repaired? It wouldn't necessarily be usual to replace a gas boiler...
If you do that then most of the water in the top of volumiser will be "out of circuit" and not adding to the heated volume? I recently had a buffer c...
@batpred This is not my own experience, thank goodness, but something I just came upon on YT: It appears to have been posted by an inspector
@ashp-bobba thanks for your detailed reply, which I accept in good faith. I don't question your list of things that could go wrong without proper se...
@dgclimatecontrol Thanks for your reply. Quite agree that nothing is free but in the case of my EV the service checklist is very short and mostly of ...
@editor No and no from me! For comparison, my EV (Smart #1) requires servicing every 2 years /18k miles in order to preserve the 3 year warranty on ...
As I tell my sceptical neighbours, we now have 5 heat pumps: in the fridge, freezer, wine cooler, EV and ASHP. None of the first 4 are ever serviced...
@wally I should also have said that we are retired, so need the house warm all day, and set the stat at 21C with a set back to 17C overnight.
Just on the tariff point, we find that Agile works for us. We have 19kWh batteries but they only run the house + Ecodan 14kW for around 5 hours on co...
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