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Last seen: Jun 27, 2025
@thebarn massively oversized for the heat demand then… Have you seen the heat loss calcs the quoting company have produced?
25,000kWh over 6 months, at 23hrs/day of heat input (allowing 1hr for dhw) gives you a continuous heat input of just over 6kW. I bet you could get a...
Every Daikin data sheet I’ve seen says 60 max…. And Daikin are keen to use their built in backup heater at every opportunity, so we see quite a lot of...
Project management is a hard task…. My sister has made a career out of in and it’s all encompassing. She works in the charging infrastructure space fo...
I’ll be attending Installer ‘24 at the NEC this year, unfortunately just for one day. But it might be a good opportunity for a forum get-together? It’...
Radiator upgrades really are something that people should do… a 600x1200 type22 is about £75 from Screwfix, comes with fresh new white paint, no sludg...
Just to bias the conversation the other way, my retrofit install in an old house with marginal 50mm cavities works perfectly. The house is larger (we ...
Unfortunately most people seem to think that if it costs more money, it must save money….. this doesn’t help when comparing things to a gas combi swap...
Working my way through this…. One thing I would say, when everyone says ‘they don’t work’ what they mean is ‘they don’t cost less than a gas boiler’. ...
Most hot tub heatpump controllers allow you to offset the flow temperature sensor by a fixed value… failing that you can just fudge the resistance....
I’ll pull the numbers from the smart meter and let you know… we’re on the backstop energy rate, and on prepayment… I top up around £70/week at the m...
I’d consider my system to be installed quite optimally… I have one anti freeze valve, no flexis, and over 20m of buried primary pipework. I also don...
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