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1. I certainly did, I found two installers who would accept evidence of actual heat loss and factor it into their calculations in a way which meant th...
Many people with heat pumps heat water only to say 48 with a weekly legionella cycle (often using the immersion) taking it to 60/65. This should all ...
Good spot on the data. The physical size of the 7,kW model is different however so I don't think it's likely the 5 is entirely a SW mod of the 7, how...
Fair enough, I was just checking I hadn't missed something! Thanks for replying.
This is so important. For my money householders need to know how to balance radiators using the lsv. Why? Because, given that its unlikely that radi...
The other important point about wc is that the controller gets the signal to change what it is doing at the same time as the principal driving factor ...
Surely you can 'correct' a mildly oversized rad by turning down the lsv during the balancing process? Certainly that's what I did with my installatio...
As @ashp-bobba says there are lots of variables. My house takes 3-6hrs to change temperature by a degree. I have one room with a fancoil that respon...
Correct. However unofficial data suggests this ignores defrosts and you might have to derate by 10-20pc when it's defrosting a lot, which in fairness...
A couple of hopefully helpful comments Vaillant 10kW is the same as the 12kW, just software limited. A neighbour of mine was borderline 7/10kW an...
The order, despite it's title, appears to apply to England and Wales, see article 1
Yes but we have to deal for now with the world as it is not as we would like it to be (whilst seeking to change it at the same time) Householder ...
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