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Federation of Master Builders (FMB) on the chancellor's budget: Despite welcome announcements on funding for skills, business rates and housing, it’...
As a household we've cut consumption of meat to a couple times a week – in my opinion, along with cutting the use of fossil fuel boilers, the reductio...
Vegan campaigning group, Viva!, are disappointed following the recent announcement that the COP26 menu will not be entirely vegan, claiming that more ...
@kev-m, it always happens in winter. Three years on the trot, but like I said to Derek at least it’s happened in October as opposed to December.
@derek-m, we’ve had two outages in back to back years in December so an October outage is definitely better. Partially good news is that we’ve foun...
Rob Whitney from Resideo gives us a rundown on smart home controllers (TRVs and thermostats) and how they can make a heat pump central heating system ...
@saz, we have a unit from Global Energy Systems - a British brand. We have an immersion connected to our solar PV so we were able to reheat out hot wa...
Our system went on the fritz last night, so we're without heating again. Smell of glycol in the utility room, pressure on the expansion vessel has dro...
@rodgero, welcome to the forums. Insulation has to be the starting point. An E EPC rating is on the lower end and you may struggle to heat the house e...
Hi Mark - hit the "quote" button to get the text from the reply to appear on your reply.
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