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I agree with @morgan. You can turn down the target tank temperature so you aren't diluting the water when it comes out of the tap/shower. 40C is p...
@grantmethestrength There are a couple of subtle points to make here which might explain the noise you experienced: 1: did you ensure that, w...
Then that is what you should ask for. As I say above Im neither condoning nor defending having only an MCB not a type B RCD plus an MCB (or an RCBO),...
So in summary it was a decision between pragmatism and strict conformance to what Vaillant say, even though (I believe) the latter goes beyond the req...
They could hang a secondary CU off the existing ASHP MCB and then put the RCD in that - as @ashp-bobba suggests above I believe. They may argue that...
Im glad you said this. Its reasonable to suppose we get a distorted view on this forum and its important IMHO to be reminded of that from time to tim...
I think you probably mean RCDs rather than MCBs. Vaillant, in common with many heat pump manufactures, specify Type B RCDs which, unlike the more ...
You should contact the council and report the unsatisfactory work, requesting them to withold paynent. Without rawlplugs (how do you know) your radia...
Not sure that's what you meant albeit that the industry could do with some comic treatment!
Strange. Very definitely in the UK there are two separate industries namely commercial aircon, who all have f-gas qualifications so can work with re...
Commercial aircon people would normally do this in the UK, I imagine same in Portugal. Does it actually need doing?
Indeed. With a battery its presumably the battery controller that does all the heavy lifting with load optimisation, so I'm not sure Havenwise helps...
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