Last seen: Jun 27, 2025
OK, so you've replaced a pellet boiler which was probably around 24-30kW, and would have been batch fired into a large thermal store or buffer tank. T...
Secondary bypass is here, black top...
The Warmflow AS03-R32 is a 20kW rated unit, it's quite a beast. Let's assume that it's running those rads at a fixed temperature of 50 degrees, close ...
@oswiu the building regs from 5 yrs ago made no recommendations for air tightness, that has only just come in with the changes to part L. The OPs ho...
You should have moved to a smaller house 🤣 and not installed a grant, or in your case two of the darn things… They're good units, made in Japan by C...
@mcwatson1974 11m of bifolds, there’s your problem right there…. did you have a blower door test done on completion? It might have loads of insulati...
The shouldn't reject it on planning, the noise thing is an issue for environmental health, not planning. Planning won't listen to your whining neighbo...
All this talk of obfuscation..... I just sent an email to the MD of my ASHP supplier and said 'can I have the modbus register map please' - got a PDF ...
So aside from the PD issue (easily resolved with a retrospective planning application), what's the issue here? Given that RHI has stopped, I can't see...
@mcwatson1974 Congratulations, you've found the heat loss of your house, it matches whatever heat output your 8kW ecodan was delivering when it was co...
My 10.6kWh slab of 11 year old LiFePo4 is in an unheated shed, I limit my charge rate to 20a in this temperature and limit my discharge rate too (no e...
Interesting.... Although we're trying to get the unit costs down, I fail to see how manufacturing in the UK achieves that. Let's hope they start wi...
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