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Firstly you have come to the right place and its good that you have posted. 15kW for a 225 sq m 1990s house does initially feel like extreme overkii...
Yes but.. there is now way single room loss calculations are that accurate anyway. Radiator balancing fixes this Personally I regard even the be...
Thanks for reminding me! The warm weather end is probably impossible to get exactly right not least because solar gain is likely to take over. The V...
Why on earth do we arrogantly create such standards given that we are a tiny market. Isn't that what the EU (representing a sufficiently large market...
I agree, but some people love to 'fiddle' and think, generally incorrectly, that they can somehow do better than a well set up system. Also not all s...
@andrewj Its worth remembering that recovery is, at least in principle, asymptotic not linear, so whilst it might take 6 hours fully to recover most ...
@mars For the avoidance of doubt I agree with you. Nothing obviously special! Perhaps there were not many candidates!
Sorry to hear that. I haven't heard much about it here other than a couple of posts about noise initially, which Octopus seem to have fixed. So far...
Definitely that, also the thermal characteristics of your house and of your emitters. Its a bit of a 'how long is a piece of str...
... Which is what the whole industry must do if we are to decarbonise heating. If your local plumber can't do it then it's too difficult for the main...
I am not here to defend Heat geek or anyone else, but I think it that's perhaps a bit harsh if its intended as a criticism as opposed to an observatio...
Yes exactly that. To put it another way I mean Heat Geek's product (which is an installed system) not the components (such as a heat pump) that they ...
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