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And, as an added bonus, the bed sheets won't need to be changed quite so frequently!
Like any heating system the consumption will depend on outside temperature. At the design minimum temperature you need to deliver roughly twice as mu...
An arrangement which recognises that this is a modern totally unnecessary extravagance? Or as @iaack suggests, waste water heat recovery Or just s...
Pretty much I'm coming to that conclusion, TBH it was my hunch when I started this thread but I wanted (and still want) to see if anyone comes up with...
No idea because not sure what they refer to. What's the context and what are the units and factory defaults? Mostly I would say leave things at...
Some manufacturers publish this data including (but not limited to) Midea, Mitsubishi, Vaillant. Its not always easy to find, Mideas is in a password...
We don't and they may well be overstated. Certainly there is a reduction in efficiency because the heat pump has to run at a higher ft, but this migh...
Possibly not. As I understand it this mode, which many heat pumps have, caps the compressor speed which reduces the maximum output but not the minimu...
It will, but it's heating more than you need assuming you are happy with the current downstairs temp and unlikely to fix the basic problem ie that the...
Indeed. In this case I would personally leave it to the heat pump. However if you can align the cycling to cheap periods that's a wholly different s...
Yes, as can more capable heat pump controllers
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