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In a word don't, or at least think VERY hard before doing so. Zoning and buffers are both bad for efficiency and you can adjust the relative amount o...
In a word yes, its better to use LSVs, for the reasons you clearly understand. Low flow continuously keeps max engaged volume and lowest necessary fl...
@cathoderay Noted. In fairness some people only have scrappy records of gas consumption, its geeks like us that now keep everything! Clearly if y...
@cathoderay Most of those comments also apply to a gas system, the material differences are the fact that you cant get daily/hourly data from an oi...
Thanks for posting and we look forward to hearing about your journey. It sounds like your system has considerable scope for improvement as you work y...
@vinma That all looks very neat and professional and thank you for posting. Its good to hear from householders with successful installs to remind ...
I am not sure where you draw the boundaries of 'whatiffery', but I think we can be certain that we will need some theorising, whether numerical or ana...
I wouldn't say its a non starter. If you can get annual consumption somehow it is still a sense check that will point out any survey results that are...
Personally I don't trust Trustpilot following an occasion when I relied on it to select a roofer, a mistake that cost me £5000. For this reason I wou...
er - rinse hold is the solution to that particular problem assuming that the machine features the facility. Most of the time it wouldn't be every ti...
At the risk of upsetting our @editor I do have some sympathy with this sentiment but also a lot of sympathy for the many people we see hear who clearl...
Indeed not, I think, unless you take measurements regularly, it reduces to a 'sense check' in this case based on annual consumption or the like. Stil...
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