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I feel for you. I have never done a major 'build' personally but I have done several professionally, and I'm sorry to say that incompetent tradesmen...
Not necessarily. Some heat pumps flatline at either end of the defined 'curve', at least according to the manual. Depends on the heat pump
Not natively to any heat pump or boiler sofaik. You could try running on WC + temperature sensor (ideally the midea one not third party thermostats,...
Understood. Solutions I can see if you cant somehow squeeze enough out of the heat pump are Supplementary heating Replace UFH with rads (because...
Understood. Solutions I can see if you cans somehow squeeze enough out of the heat pump are Supplementary heating Replace UFH with rads (because...
You need to insulate the edges and beneath - 'heat rises' applies only in fluids not solids, in solids the heat spreads isotopically. If you do thi...
Vaillant are pretty good maintaining their sticker output or better, so I don't thing the heat pump is the issue, but it may well be that ...
Me too, but I think we are in the minority. Most homeowners dont understand anything about heating, dont want to understand anything about heating an...
Thats really helpful as it clearly says target 49C. So unless the actual flow temp keeps going up we know there is a limitation somewhere. Moreover...
I can think of a few possible reasons why the manufacturers of third party controls in general might want to be obscure about what they actually do ...
@davidnolan22 Inspired by someone on buildhub I asked ChatGPT and Duck.ai (which uses chatgpt and other LLMs) the following question: "Supp...
Maybe you are right to be cynical and maybe not, I would really like to know as it would help understanding how best to operate (in particular) oversi...
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RE: Why are ASHP installs so expensive?
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RE: Heat Pump deployment statistics: June 2026
To my eyes, sat behind all of this is a basic policy ma...
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RE: Missing flow temperature in Heat Geek proposal
That calculation is reasonable, output is proportional ...
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RE: Recommendations in Ely (Cambs) area for Full setup checks on Nibe HP setup for House.
Have you looked at the Nibe website? They list their ap...
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?
@batpred When the raw material input has increased in c...
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We kept ours and Heat Geek would have been in touch if ...
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RE: Starting Our Heat Pump Journey: 1962 build 3 bed detached house
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RE: Is it the house or the equipment?
Thanks @jamespa The last hard to fix draughts in the...
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RE: Vaillant Arotherm – Using Heating
@l8again Mine is typically using 11w including the i...
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RE: Next steps on my ASHP journey: Radiators and Pipework
If you have a flowmeter and two temperature probes, the...
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RE: Siting of the external sensor on a heatpump
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