Last seen: Sep 17, 2025
Here’s a close up of the heat loss pipe.
@transparent might be an idea buying a couple now and sitting on them, so when they go “poof” they should yield a decent return on investment.
@jamespa interesting. Hopefully we’ll be able get some probes at either end of the run and see the numbers are.
@toodles the cost of the heat loss was not insignificant too. I think it was around £1,000 for the 25 odd metres. We were lucky that we had a gravel d...
Definitely - rooms feel uniformly comfortable as opposed to noticeably warm with bands of “hot” air at head level from higher flow temperatures.
On a serious note, I think we may be able to work that out when @heacol visit us – it's a great question I don't we're losing much heat, but it's wort...
@toodles that's a really good question and I've spent the afternoon trying to work it out. I started by considering the hypothetical Heat Loss Quoti...
@toodles the unit is 25m from the house but we never hear it even from the front door which about 10 metres away. The nearest A road to us is over hal...
@noburn who's the insurer just for reference?
@zogy I think it would be very helpful if you could send us the sound/noise – can you film a short video and either email it to me (editor@renewableab...
Having lived and visited various hot climates, I've found AC units to be significantly louder than air source heat pumps. Despite observing numerous h...
@shaeney super interesting. In the absence of insulation, I’m very curious to hear what the heat loss survey was. Can you walk us through that? Also w...
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