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@heacol, the practicalities of getting the system running the way you describe would involve a lot of remedial work given that we've inherited a flawe...
I understand that the MCS may have its faults, but I shudder to think what the quality of installs would be without it, and it least MCS gives homeown...
I take your point Derek. Some users just aren't courteous unfortunately to say thank you or acknowledge the time you've spent replying to them.
@batalto, that's brilliant. Great to hear it's been such a success.
Regarding people not replying to responses is not uncommon on forums. It's not a waste of time though, because this content is available to everyone...
@derek-m, thanks Derek. In our case, the installers asked us if we wanted to "keep things as they were" – the answer from us was yes, because this is ...
I appreciate your efforts and patience – when you're familiar with the way something works, it's easy to get frustrated when people don't get it. Heat...
Not sure what you mean by timers. Smart TRVs on all rads. Yes, we have a buffer tank. We also have three smart thermostats for UFH (in three zones) an...
@heacol. Thanks Brendan. We probably have too many controllers and smart thermostats, which is probably an oil boiler mentality, and this prohibits us...
@derek-m, I always take on board what you write. The issues that arise, in our case anyway, is that we've asked Global Energy Systems several times to...
@heacol, that's a good point about COP and leakiness. Our issue was heat emitters - when we added Stelrad K3s it made a world of difference in the c...
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