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Excellent, fun episode. Its interesting what Barry says about the problems with the way we measure heat loss and the inaccuracies in assumed air cha...
If most of your rads are K1s then upgrading to K2 double finned should bring the required flow temp down materially without compromising appearance. ...
It would be interesting to get to the bottom of this but I suspect needs quite a lot of houses and certainly is not a priority. The average house con...
If the product is free (or cheap) YOU are the product. This is worth remembering.
How frequently do you get defrost cycles (I ask because if the answer is not very, it really doesn't matter).
Apologies, this was the first time I had heard an argument for putting it in the flow, and the arguments for putting it in the return seem (and I thin...
That's an interesting angle not previously mentioned anywhere I have seen. Is it perhaps a positive reason for a volumiser?
R290 scops appear to be broadly similar to R32, there may be a small systematic difference which someone else can doubtless comment on. The only rea...
@heacol That is a nice set of diagrams thanks for posting. Why volumiser on the flow not the return? I thought the usual advice was the latt...
Rads are actually pretty cheap, however, funny you should ask as only a couple of days ago i knocked up a quick spreadsheet to work out the business c...
This seems like a classic case of somebody who didn't know what they were doing installing a buffer with complete mixing, which is almost certainly wh...
Perhaps I should have said that many boilers can do WC but, to the best of my understanding, few systems in the UK are set up to take advantage of the...
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@jamespa thanks for the reply. There is an integrate...
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RE: Who’s Caved and Switched the Heating On Already?
Mine went on today. IAT has dropped two degrees over t...
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@drei Willing as I am to help, I don't think I'm yet ...
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RE: Big Changes Coming to Our Heat Pump System
@editor No pressure then 🤣 🤣
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RE: Is Your Broadband Router the Weak Link in Your High-Tech Home?
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RE: Midea ASHP – how to set weather compensation
@pash44pump Referring to the problem of rooms with diff...
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RE: Help me keep the faith with my air source heat pump installation
Er true, it should have read l/hr!
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@damon thanks. I will do as you suggest. Hopefully I wi...
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RE: Is a Valliant Inline 6kW heater a BUS buster?
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RE: Heat Pump Servicing & Maintenance – Good Value or Rip-Off?
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RE: Buffers, hot water and cooling
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RE: Failing heat pump system - seeking thoughts on a rebuild
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RE: Replacing Worcester oil boiler with an ASHP
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RE: What crazy nonsense are inverter limits and why are they imposed?
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RE: COP is not the only measure of efficiency
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RE: Vaillant aroTherm Plus 10kW thoughts?
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