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Unfortunately your electrician is speaking out of the wrong orifice. Weather compensation means altering the flow temperature up or down according to...
Your analysis is right but.. The number of Councillors or MPs that understand anything remotely technical is tiny The Civil Service (which, so fa...
Thanks for sharing this and very pleased to hear the result. Well done for having the courage. Its worth being aware that there are (at least) ...
@tomaszw Thanks for the detailed description, a horror story indeed. I'm very sorry to hear about the experience which does not appear to be unique...
The cost/efficiency wont be apparent until it gets colder. You should demand a system diagram and also ask whether weather compensation has been set...
Sadly situation normal for much if the building industry, at least by my experience, nothing special about heat pumps! Fortunately you are relatively...
Well in truth boilers should also be installed with weather compensation and operated at a low flow temperature, but our heating industry has been get...
Heat pumps should be operated with weather compensation otherwise you will spend 15-20% more than you need to. It looks like this might have been set...
On the grounds that an installation other than by an MCS contractor doesn't qualify for the BUS grant and isn't permitted development then its clearly...
Ps to the above. The requirements on the heat pump, for the grant, are specified here. The relevant ones are, I think, the below. Ther...
Hi Jonathan The Vaillant report you posted and as I read it says you have a radiator in the kitchen, and also says you are running at a flow temp of...
That's all very neat! If the 2*15 run in a straight line to the room next door to the right of the photo, and then the microbore tees off to the firs...
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