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That does sound like a very high heat loss but then your house is bigger than our one, which is 2 storey 4 bedroom, maybe half the floor area. We hav...
It sounds like you are getting to grips with it well. I just want to check, are the pressure gauges in the system showing a sensible sort of pressure...
Also from what I have read it isn't impossible for a meter to be wrong but in your case for it to be wrong and the house not heating up is all too muc...
Well if you brought it brand new just now then you surely have a case to go back to them and threaten legal action, but 3 and a bit years latejudging ...
I see the checklist mentions Polypipe Smart Stat, which is apparently one of these: do you have it somewhere?
Thanks for the photos that is useful. A 2 degree drop between out and inflow, that's I think fairly normal, but where is the heat going? You will lo...
That sounds really bad, our one uses a quarter of the energy when it is close to freezing. Do you have any documentation about the system? If you...
Heck, we never got any heat calculations for our intallation; if anything it is a bit oversized. I'm not condemning the radiators, I and am pointing ...
Scientifically, yes, but I've been in a lot of older houses over the years and seen all sorts of older radiators and rarely anything from the 21st cen...
Basically unless they are only 10 years old, I have great trouble believing that the original radiators are able to put out enough energy from the coo...
That sound like a complete mess. Are they the original radiators or did they replace them with newer high output ones? People who know more wil...
From what I have read it is a start, the issue is more political, in that anything appearing green is seen as evil by the tories and similar. Added t...
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