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The most important thing to remember with external insulation is that it’s UV stable. So that’s either primary pro, or aluminum covered rockwool. st...
I’d suggest using the freedom toolkit for doing your heat loss, it’s a relatively robust excel workbook put together by GH, quite a while ago now. I...
All they need to do now is manufacture a proper in home display/control unit, instead of forcing people to use an app….. or here’s an idea, just...
When we had a gas boiler, the wall stat was used as a switch anyway...
It's for this very reason that I've got our system running without a thermostat or a timeclock - that way the heating can't accidentally be turned off...
The only things that matters to me - 1. It doesn't cost more to run than the gas boiler we replaced, 2. The house is as warm or warmer. We've succee...
It's going to be a difficult one to diagnose just off photos... I suspect that the ashp is batch charging the thermal store - that all needs re-plumbi...
Cheers Derek 🤣 Just what I needed...
Can you send more detailed photos of the outside of the cylinder? I'm suspecting that it might be a thermal store...
£10 says there isn’t one
I can't see one anywhere in that internal pipework, and there won't be one under the external lagging...
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