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If most of your rads are K1s then upgrading to K2 double finned should bring the required flow temp down materially without compromising appearance. ...
It would be interesting to get to the bottom of this but I suspect needs quite a lot of houses and certainly is not a priority. The average house con...
If the product is free (or cheap) YOU are the product. This is worth remembering.
How frequently do you get defrost cycles (I ask because if the answer is not very, it really doesn't matter).
Apologies, this was the first time I had heard an argument for putting it in the flow, and the arguments for putting it in the return seem (and I thin...
That's an interesting angle not previously mentioned anywhere I have seen. Is it perhaps a positive reason for a volumiser?
R290 scops appear to be broadly similar to R32, there may be a small systematic difference which someone else can doubtless comment on. The only rea...
@heacol That is a nice set of diagrams thanks for posting. Why volumiser on the flow not the return? I thought the usual advice was the latt...
Rads are actually pretty cheap, however, funny you should ask as only a couple of days ago i knocked up a quick spreadsheet to work out the business c...
This seems like a classic case of somebody who didn't know what they were doing installing a buffer with complete mixing, which is almost certainly wh...
Perhaps I should have said that many boilers can do WC but, to the best of my understanding, few systems in the UK are set up to take advantage of the...
Many gas boilers do or can support WC. However the way we do dhw means that you may have to jump hoops to implement it. A friend of mine has employ...
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