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This is where lax terminology fails us big time. Three days training, if you have basic plumbing skills, is almost certainly more than enough time to...
Its, sadly, clear to me that the over-regulation simply doesn't work. It provides a get out clause for poor installers, who have done what the rules ...
Thanks, thats really helpful. Please forgive me if I don’t remember everything you have previously posted, whilst I ask some questions in the hope th...
I suspect that even a typical (ie well oversized) gas boiler might struggle to cope efficiently with this, it would most likely be short cycling appal...
Much of that is also true for fossil fuel installs. What we don't need is to make heat pumps more difficult than a fossil fuel boiler. So if we have...
In fairness there are unknowns with a retrofit, air changes and often fabric construction where upgrades/extensions have been made, and these unknowns...
The '20kW' Warmflow (AS03-R32) is 20kW at 7C, falling to 14kW at -7. Not sure what your design temp is but it does sound rather oversized, and like o...
Well probably I would (it's inevitable that some things are several layers down in menus because there are so many things you can change these days, a...
Also its a change, and people hate/are scared of change. In cases of change I always like to think about the counterfactual. Suppose that heat pu...
I couldn't agree more with that, and this applies the system design (particularly for retrofit) and installation as well as the units themselves. Cur...
Good luck, I hope your LPA is more enlightened than mine!
@persephone I sympathise with your position but ... have you considered the possibility that nobody is at fault. Just because somebody has been har...
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