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One more thought if you are doing a bathroom refurb and planning a heat pump later - towel rails are basically more or less useless for heating when r...
The proof, of course, will be in the heating! My ASHP was fitted two weeks ago sized based on two years measurements of gas consumption and assumpt...
OK. Im not going to be able to answer the question, but can give you some pointers. Others may chip in. Forget the idea of a 100l buffer tank to...
You are right about 35mm, my mistake. The D2 can certainly go through the wall assuming that the porch doesn't conflict given the levels (look at...
I wouldnt disagree with this! No. The pipe is carrying pressurised hot water (it could be as hot as 70C in a legionella cycle) so it needs t...
First question, where does 16kW come from. It's a big loss even for a 220sq m house unless its poorly insulated or it gets very cold, which it may de...
If the objective is to operate without trvs then rads need to be balanced so that the rooms are at the same temperature (or deviate from the same temp...
OK so it sounds like you have a vented DHW system all the heating pipes converging in the airing cupboard You are almost certainly going to w...
If they are all above the required heat loss by about the same amount, you simply turn down the flow temp! If some are 'oversized and some not, it mi...
Definitely try to fit the pipework now, pushing it through conduit isn't likely to be very practical unless its large conduit without bends. Can I as...
Clivet is, I believe, Midea rebadged. There are several on here with Midea heat pumps who may be able to comment. They are not the most advanced in ...
Based on this discussion it's pretty convincing that this can't work for the nation if run as a business, which of course doesn't mean that it's techn...
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