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RE: Tips on How to Get Your Home Ready for Winter to Lower Bills

I got myself a Seek thermal imaging attachment for my iphone in the hope that I'll be able to see any voids in the cavity wall insulation. But it's no...

3 years ago
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RE: Tips on How to Get Your Home Ready for Winter to Lower Bills

I have more info: the price for insulating the timber floored part of a bungalow (which I'm estimating would be about 60 m sq) is in the region of £50...

3 years ago
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RE: Tips on How to Get Your Home Ready for Winter to Lower Bills

Sounds like she'd be very keen to try a Q-bot then !

3 years ago
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RE: Tips on How to Get Your Home Ready for Winter to Lower Bills

Hi @editor @derek-m Have you heard of Q-bot ? It's a little robotic car that drives round under the surface of a suspended timber floor and sprays ins...

3 years ago
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RE: Heat pumps & dry air leading to sinus problems and headaches?

What ventilation do you have @gurugurugravity ?

3 years ago
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RE: Trickle vents v mechanical ventilation

@olly A combination of waiting to sell a property to fund the windows and general procrastination means I haven't actually had any work done yet. Howe...

3 years ago
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RE: Anyone taken a thermal image of their ASHP condenser unit?

Ooh @seaenergy that's a bit worrying !!! I'll have another go at my installer then. Thanks very much for you advise. It's been running like that for o...

3 years ago
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RE: Anyone taken a thermal image of their ASHP condenser unit?

No, it's R32. A split system so it's pumped from the outdoor unit up the outside wall to the indoor unit in the loft.

3 years ago
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RE: Anyone taken a thermal image of their ASHP condenser unit?

Sorry I got the date wrong on the photo - it was 21st March at 06:26 - obviously a chilly and damp morning ! I don't know if it was doing the defrost ...

3 years ago
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RE: Anyone taken a thermal image of their ASHP condenser unit?

I'll pm you for more info on the leak... Thermals are there ready for the winter!

3 years ago
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RE: Anyone taken a thermal image of their ASHP condenser unit?

So @derek-m do you think the bands in my photo are where the warmed refrigerant is piped back into the unit during a defrost cycle, rather than not fr...

3 years ago
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RE: Anyone taken a thermal image of their ASHP condenser unit?

Ice 11th Feb this year. Unfortunately I saw it escape when an installer was moving the machine ! Refrigerant guy called in to check there was no f...

3 years ago
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