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You are doing a splendid job of cornering the installers, well done. I have a couple of comments which may or may not help Just to ad...
Why arent you expecting them to make much difference. If the water flow is shut off completely they wont heat at all, and in principle the flow could...
Im assuming the m^2 refers to the outside the area of the house not the floor area, otherwise the calculation appears wrong. 7.46 ACH is really high ...
Ok. It still seems high tbh. Particularly if you do anything to improve the floors. My 200sq m house of similar basic construction with no floor ins...
Are you going to insulate those solid walls and the loft at all If so this figure is crazily high and a design based on it will likely perform rather...
Fwiw I ried smart trvs with my gas heating. I found it too much faff to use the smart features so reverted to dumb trvs and subsequently, when I got ...
Until I turned down the lsvs upstairs, yes. No real need to buy frvs, lsvs, or trvs fitted with decorator caps to replace the heads, will do the same...
In short yes. Balancing so that delta t across the rad is equal will theoretically achieve this, but of course that depends on the design and loss ...
Definitely worth getting numbers. It's generally differences that matter so a cheap amazon probe is fine as long as you use tge same one consistently...
I think it's unlikely it will make things worse. The pump issue is yet another example where a buffer not only degrades performance but also obscure...
We privatised electricity (back in the 80s I think) so the government doesn't have direct control so far as I am aware. Presumably with privatisation...
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