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Yes, the minimum cost will (almost certainly) come if you get the WC adjusted so it just heats the house to temperature so the lower you can get it wh...
just cale (cally) I would think. I dont dislike it! I just checked German, French and Spanish, all are a direct translation of heat pump - or o...
According to Google 'The word refrigerator comes from the latin refrigare, derived from frigus (meaning cold)'
Last time I looked the air in my bicycle pump wasn't visible either! Perhaps we should call it a reverse refrigerator, a rotaregifer (pronounced rot...
You have to experiment, reducing it a degree at a time until it fails to heat the house up sufficiently. TRVs (if you have them) all fully open and a...
Using the Hive may be a bad idea. Fundamentally the primary control of heat pumps should be the heat pump's own controller, and in particular weath...
Fair enough, but the idea of a pump and the idea of energy/heat are both familiar to laymen, so I can't see we need to do anything (by way of explanat...
Maybe not. The point about pumps of all kinds is that they act against the natural flow of what they pump, and that is exactly what a heat pump does....
...which is why boilers eventually need to be banned. I don't doubt that similarly minded people will/have complained about recent floods. They need...
Welcome to the forum, Im sure you will find people here, who are happy to help. Its also good that you like your ASHP!. As far as the forum is conce...
Not sure exactly what the picture shows as there appear to be 8 readings. If its the bottom temp readings that are of interest, the they seem to be 2...
OK so lets start with some back of the envelope stuff. Your peak heating load is say 3kW. So you need 3/(4.2*4) l/s = 0.18l/s=10l/min to carry this ...
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Should I change my cylinder when changing from a gas boiler to a heat pump.
I have 178 L Gledhill unvented cylinder which was fitte...
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Should I change my cylinder when changing from a gas boiler to a heat pump.
I have 178 L Gledhill unvented cylinder which was fitte...
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RE: Plug and play solar. Thoughts?
Impressions so far from the one I've installed are that...
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@batpred The Daikin temperature probe protrudes from th...
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RE: Air source heat pump roll call – what heat pump brand and model do you have?
@editor And as an occasional contributor, may I say wel...
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RE: Should Households Who Can Afford It Pay More for Energy to Help Those Who Can't?
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RE: Why don't people choose heat pumps?
Fair enough. I guess I was thinking of pipes that run ...
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RE: How Can I Prove Coal Was My Main Heating Source Without Receipts?
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