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@westkent, glycol has a very distinct smell. Iāve spent the day smelling it myself while trying to de-air our system. If youāve got a filter you can i...
@ashp-bobba, given the installation quality we see from many installers, I honestly wouldnāt put it past some of them to fill a system with glycol and...
@pirate-rich thereās a lot to do and plan, and the wish list is getting longer and longer, but I feel more positive than I have in a long time that ne...
@chas-b and @pirate-rich spent the day with us today tackling the air in the system. There was an obscene amount left behind after the recent bodged f...
It certainly has been a testing timeā¦ but weāre almost there!
@pirate-rich spent another full day with us today, joined by @chas-b, working tirelessly to get all the air out of the system. It was an incredible ef...
Iām watched @pirate-rich rewire our wiring centre last week, which was MASTERFUL! It was calm, methodical and meticulous. I have no technical abili...
Weāre going to do a full retrofix in spring with @pirate-rich at the helmā¦ thereās a mountain of planning to get it 100% right and we donāt want to co...
@jamespa, 😀, and the thing that has pissed me off the most is that this is a direct result of a horribly bodged retrofix. The irony! But the...
We've never had a proper heat loss calculation, James. Our only one was seven years ago with a rep from GES, back when we were new to heat pumps. Th...
Agreed. Thereās tricky, and then thereās diving into a project with no plan or forethoughtā¦ just slinging stuff at the wall to see what sticks. That k...
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