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Last seen: Oct 24, 2026
From what Richard explained to me, they should have purchased the correct coupling that would have allowed them to do this without any butchery, but t...
Great that you're thinking about this before the installation... let's run the numbers. For a 3.5 kW unit, plug it into the formula. Aiming for an e...
Funny you should mention labour... I dug the trench myself. Younger, more optimistic, blissfully unaware of what would eventually be buried in it. The...
The initial pipes running to/through the thick/bulky heat loss pipe were copper, but changed to plastic for the main, long 25m run. Is that what you m...
@painter26 thanks for bumping this up. I'll circulate this to my professional/installer network to see who'd be available to look into this and help.
This made my week. An installer did a survey recently and the homeowner pulled out a copy of The Ultimate Guide to Heat Pumps, with two sides of A4 wo...
Ha, guilty as charged on the caveat emptor front. We were textbook poorly educated consumers. We didn't caveat anything 😉. We didn't even know...
Really interesting piece on external insulation, and echoes issues with our own install:
@seoras welcome to the forums. Could you please share more specifics on your case?
Thanks @indevolt-uk… that’s a really useful clarification, and the 10ms EPS switching figure is the number that I think @jamespa was looking for. To...
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RE: Double or Triple Glazed Windows?
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RE: How quickly would you want/expect heat recovery to take from setback?
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