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@ashp-bobba I agree that as an installer you probably don’t want to be the cheapest. There is plenty of work out there. If you charge more, you can ...
@drei in your original post, you said: Did the Heat Geek Elite engineer give you a design within the £800 fee, or did he just tell you everything t...
@majordennisbloodnok I read the document that you shared: "Get_to_know_your_Cosy-20.2-internal". It looks as though it automatically adjusts the wea...
@andrewj this is an interesting discussion. I am curious to understand why you are asking the question. You already have a heat pump, so surely you ...
This really depends on your heat loss and emitters. My installer and I seem to have been too pessimistic about the heat loss and maybe overshot on ra...
@heacol thanks for explaining. We have FRVs on most radiators. We have TRVs in the bedrooms instead, but they are all wide open. The temperature i...
@judith Yes I agree. They are extremely expensive. I suspect they sell very few of them, so they don’t have the economies of scale of standard rad...
@heacol this may be a silly question, but why would you need a second pump? The water pump in my Grant Aerona 290 15.5kW is happily pumping the wate...
@editor Yes, we all suffer from the Dunning-Kruger effect. It is so easy to think we understand something, when we don't - especially when it looks...
What an interesting and ambitious project. You certainly have built a big house - 650m2 is enormous! Here are some pointers: I wonder why you ...
@old_scientist 3. Some pipe work is always hidden, but some is always visible too. The pipes connected to the old boiler, water pu...
@editor I found this Wikipedia article on Noel Burch's Four Stages of Competence model. It appears that your installer may be stuck at the "Unc...
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