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Thats bizarre. It definitely needs to be in the shade! There is a reason small weather stations are inside Stephenson's screens! Vaillants are w...
I think the point is that the sun can be out, but it can still be very cold, so you still need some heating. @richard24738 seems to have a problem th...
Thanks for the analysis of the capabilities of the various smart TRVs. Its interesting that Wundasmart and Wiser work by PID, which suggests that, wi...
Thats simply not true (to any material extent), which is where you are going wrong!. Essentially you are mixing up cause and effect. The heat outpu...
Understood, but it feels like a no-brainer. As I remarked above b atteries almost make financial sense/already do for some even now!
Not necessarily, wrongly set up it will make cycling worse (sorry, comment refers to buffer not turning up pump speed) The solution is to replumb as...
Yes The problem with buffer tanks (unless they have only 2 ports) is that you get mixing between flow and return, unless the pumps either side are ...
Well found. If that's the case and assuming it's 3 or 4 port not 2 port that could account for another 10-15%. Ideally it needs to go but installers...
Useful. When did it go into shade? If not then, what else was happening at the same time?
Really, only 10%, thats much smaller than I imagined. Doesn't seem a particularly challenging target to me given the right incentives, which surely a...
... but suspicious it correlates with it getting shaded. 11C isnt particularly surprising. Hopefully its white in colour, if it were black it could ...
On other threads people complain about gurgling, which is due to dissolved air coming out of solution during the first couple of weeks. It took nearl...
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