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For the benefit of the discussion I am going to repeat the opening post: @ecoste Whatever the comments on cost etc, if the above is true and p...
I suspect it's because housebuilders have lobbied/told government it will add ~ 20K to the price, a figure which they will have calculated by consider...
No the whole house is on one zone operating at a single FT. In principle the rads in the bedrooms should have been designed for a lower room temp (...
Not really in the way you describe The effect at best would be to switch it off altogether until the house cools. It wont limit it by reducing FT, ...
Thats definitely not a bad approach, combined with a bit of pragmatism. If there is a nice radiator already present which is a few tens of watts shor...
I cant comment unfortunately. I did all my selection based on Stelrad figures on the basis that they seemed conservative and I assume that, in realit...
Oh I see, I thought that there might be some sort of gauge, I have never had oil heating! In that case you are pretty much reliant on annual consumpt...
I had similar thoughts with my heat pump and, to a lesser extent EV (I have had solar panels from 2011). Having made the leap I have absolutely no r...
@drei Sorry I think I understand but just to check.... Taking the kitchen as an example are you saying that the current actual loss is 1991 W and...
Because its what the investors demand, simple as that. Like it or not we are dependent on them, and like it or not they have a choice in what to inve...
@jeff I think you are making the mistake of thinking that there might be an easy way to reduce carbon emissions, ie either that technology is s...
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