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If you paid for any of the assessments try asking for the full calculation. I did for the one I paid for, very useful.
@drei Thats a nice designer radiator which it would be a shame to bin, and the space is otherwise useless. That said vertical panel radiators dont...
Vertical rads are less effective per unit area, I assume (but dont know for certain) that they factor this into the quoted performance Other than th...
Yes. There is nothing sacrosanct about DT5 even on aggregate, and certainly not for any individual radiator. Furthermore if all the rads have been b...
@ecoste, @walnut-tree-cottage these are both great pieces of kit. As I am sure you know running a heat pump is rather different to running a boiler....
Its key to understand this, and it applies more generally. 'Unheated' rooms are in fact heated from adjacent rooms, which means that the rads in thos...
Agree with the above. What diagrams/instructions do you have, what model of heat pump, some photos including photos of the controller settings. In ...
Upgrading radiators is almost never a bad thing to do, what's the payback time and is there a requirement for it to be cooler at night (if so how do y...
What sort of modification is 'needed'? Presumably if it previously heated the hot water there are some pipes and maybe a pump that take heat away to ...
17l/min is enough for only 6kW at 5C DT, not surprising a 12kW Panasonic complained! How did the installer ever think it was going to work?
@pash44pump Hopefully @cathoderay has demonstrated the value of measured data! Its good to look at everything together though, picking the result tha...
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