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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...
Now people have said all the sensible long things, I have a question - can you tell how often it is coming on and off each hour, and is it possible to...
Spirotech, the one on the right, is a fancy water filter, I think pretty much all systems have a spirotech or something similar. To get any particles...
Our panels look a bit more like 10% and 80% setup, but have survived 70mph gusts over winter okay and seem to be rigid just now. The clamp on David's...
That is ridiculous. So you have the hot water tank, a buffer tank, a red and a white tank and a big white one as well. For comparison, our installat...
That's a pain, sounds like you might have been paying through the nose to heat your hot water for a while using the immersion heater. To help with ...
I too would like a small, 0.5 to 1Kw vertical axis wind turbine to go at the bottom of the garden and basically top up the battery we have in the hous...
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