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@drei Based on your recent posts, I am wondering what your original motivation was for a heat pump. I do understand you have had a poor experience (w...
I completely agree. The extent to which heat pump controllers allow you to do this and at the same time do things like set back/set forward seems t...
I'm guessing these are the mcs defaults which are likely an overestimate, particularly for your lounge which has a large volume but relatively small s...
That was actually very popular with pensioners for a while. Are you a pensioner? Birds and other animals do of course migrate, but many humans consi...
Do you happen to know your annual oil consumption. This can provide a sense check. What ach did you assume in your calcs?
Can I just say that I dont necessarily agree with that. The problem this may cause is that it will switch off the heat pump when the air temperature ...
No surprise TBH. Most will use a program to do the calculations. What they should be able to produce is the data they put in. Whether they can or w...
@pash44pump @benson is pretty much spot on. We have been brainwashed by the controls industry into thinking that microzoning both in time and spa...
Good summary. Some comments: they will probably dispute that the buffer tank is too small and, even if they replaced it with a larger one, ...
@pash4pump Ive looked at the photos and would comment as follows: The internal insulation seems better than the external, I can see a couple of u...
In fairness when the grant went from £5000 to £7500, which happened during my discovery phase, the quotes I was receiving did go down. That said by t...
@mars That response surely deserves a nomination for Turkey of The Year, for the company itself not for the specific installation. It shows a company...
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