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What are you trying to do, is it switch off space heating for the summer or something else?
I agree (that it's overthinking). I think people forget that rooms share heat and houses have significant heat capacity. So in many, perhaps most, ...
Unless your defrost is already marginal I can't see it making a material difference but of course you could, if you were concerned, do the calculation...
@heetgeek There are plenty of new build super insulated houses that run on ashps reported particularly on buildhub. I don't know exactly how th...
I have a mitsubishi wall mounted fancoil which is I think essentially the same construction as a plinth heater. No hydronic balancing needed, it modu...
Thanks for all the explanation that's very helpful. In summary I think you are advocating splitting a heating into multiple circuits with separate p...
Or of course not having a buffer at all! Would an installer that wants to fit a buffer unnecessarily because 'thats what we do' or because of warra...
I think you may very well be right and of course A2A can be used also for cooling (A2W can also in most cases but only if you have ufh or fancoils). ...
The guidance associated with the UK building regs require separate control of each room unless it is not efficient so to do. Please explain why...
I am really sorry to hear this. I don't know how big your house is but, for comparison and to show that this is not inevitable (and also after learnin...
When you say temperature overshoot are you referring to overshoot caused by external factors such as solar gain or cooking, or something else? ...
That all sounds very believable. Presumably mixing of return water with flow water to the emitters (and thus a reduction of ft to emitters) will howe...
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