Last seen: Sep 17, 2025
All pre-sales technical queries, several to each manufacturer, generally things you need to know to pick the unit/design the system adequately. Mits...
Measure, if you can, the temperature drop from flow in to flow out. For every degree you are losing 2-3 PC in efficiency. Unless you have a seconda...
I hope and presume the buffer is plumbed as a 2 port volumiser in the return. If not you are likely going to want it replumbed. Otherwise it sounds s...
Well done and good news. if only my local planning authority was anything like so enlightened.
Interesting and says a lot about both the industry and the public. Clearly this person, like many I suspect, takes little or no interest in(or doesn'...
To be honest I hadn't noticed this subtlety. Drains connected to sewers should have a trap, mine certainly do.
Interesting, but I remain uneasy that the private monopoly owner of the shared ground loops has you over a barrel. £300 per year (essentially for acc...
Interesting. Thats a big limitation on their software/chosen market, they really are going for the low hanging fruit. I guess they want to get some ...
For good reason I think. District heating implies (yet another) private monopoly supplier of an essential service. Personally I would run a mile fro...
I worked in local government for 14 years and I am convinced that many politicians do go into it to better the country. Unfortunately, to rise up, yo...
Honestly don't bother unless the local plan (or the neighbourhood plan) is super intelligent about climate change. Planning decisions are, by law, m...
I didn't defend the status quo, merely pointed out that the MCS stamp of approval is not worthless, its worth a lot to installers (particularly poor i...
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RE: Powerwall 3 or Myenergi or something else?
Many of those tariffs are simple time of use tariffs, w...
By Temperature_Gradient , 4 hours ago
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RE: Help me keep the faith with my air source heat pump installation
Yes thats the whole point of the flexis as regards tran...
By JamesPa , 4 hours ago
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So far as I can tell designing for DT5, which is 'the n...
By JamesPa , 5 hours ago
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Mitsu PAR-WT60R Wireless Controller - options
I hope I have satisfactorily installed the above wirele...
By DavidAlgarve , 7 hours ago
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WC curve best discovered by experiment anyway as any lo...
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RE: Big Changes Coming to Our Heat Pump System
@editor your engineer's attitude is truly horrifying. ...
By GrahamF , 1 day ago
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RE: How to choose Towel Rails for an ASHP
@rob-nezard yes absolutely. Here is the link and a pho...
By GrahamF , 1 day ago
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@mixergy Thanks for the update, I would appreciate some...
By bontwoody , 1 day ago
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RE: Is Your Broadband Router the Weak Link in Your High-Tech Home?
Unfortunately I'm not that well connected 😂 ...
By Scalextrix , 1 day ago
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RE: A Customer's Lessons Learnt from a Heat Pump Installation in a Large House
It is interesting to see what our new Grant Aerona 290 ...
By GrahamF , 2 days ago
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RE: Testing new controls/monitoring for Midea Clone ASHP
I've never physically seen it, but I seem to recall som...
By cathodeRay , 2 days ago
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RE: Midea ASHP – how to set weather compensation
I noticed that too and thought the same thing, but then...
By cathodeRay , 2 days ago
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RE: Ya can’t win! It is S*d’s Law!
@old_scientist If IOF is still running next late spring...
By Toodles , 2 days ago
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RE: Electricity price predictions
Those of you on Agile will do well tomorrow; there are ...
By Toodles , 2 days ago
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RE: Who’s Caved and Switched the Heating On Already?
We've been running our Ecodan system, installed in June...
By Sheriff Fatman , 2 days ago
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Ok. Two schools of thought. The first is to run the ...
By JamesPa , 3 days ago
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@drei Willing as I am to help, I don't think I'm yet ...
By JamesPa , 3 days ago
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Selling 5 year old ASHP & Gas Combi Boiler - £590
Selling a 5-year-old Daikin Altherma Hybrid Air Source ...
By Paul G , 3 days ago
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RE: Is a Valliant Inline 6kW heater a BUS buster?
Much of that is true in principle, but its not likely t...
By JamesPa , 5 days ago
