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RE: The Importance of Radiator Balancing for Efficient Heating: Introducing the Flow Regulating Valve

If you don't need your trvs (and you shouldnt) you can repurpose them as lsvs by removing the heads and replacing with decorators caps. Trvs genera...

3 months ago
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Thermostats, Volumisers, Buffer Tanks, TRVs, Pumps, Piping, Valves, Radiators & Controls
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RE: The Importance of Radiator Balancing for Efficient Heating: Introducing the Flow Regulating Valve

With their balancing process Im pretty sure all rads could end up being restricted at least a bit. Its unlikely however that the restriction would be...

3 months ago
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RE: The Importance of Radiator Balancing for Efficient Heating: Introducing the Flow Regulating Valve

Good question. Based on physics I think the short answer is yes. I have actually been thinking about this area since I posted above with the commen...

3 months ago
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Thermostats, Volumisers, Buffer Tanks, TRVs, Pumps, Piping, Valves, Radiators & Controls
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RE: Help me keep the faith with my air source heat pump installation

Great news I edited my previous post (probably after you read it) as the Vaillant manual, at least to my reading and in the version I have, actu...

3 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: The Importance of Radiator Balancing for Efficient Heating: Introducing the Flow Regulating Valve

My understanding (someone may correct me) it that it is this, but not a specific DT for the reasons outlined above. Alternatively its getting the sam...

3 months ago
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RE: 300 Liter Tank - Do I have to heat it all?

I agree with @morgan. You can turn down the target tank temperature so you aren't diluting the water when it comes out of the tap/shower. 40C is p...

3 months ago
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Domestic Hot Water & Cylinders
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RE: The Importance of Radiator Balancing for Efficient Heating: Introducing the Flow Regulating Valve

@grantmethestrength There are a couple of subtle points to make here which might explain the noise you experienced: 1: did you ensure that, w...

3 months ago
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RE: Help me keep the faith with my air source heat pump installation

Then that is what you should ask for. As I say above Im neither condoning nor defending having only an MCB not a type B RCD plus an MCB (or an RCBO),...

3 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Help me keep the faith with my air source heat pump installation

So in summary it was a decision between pragmatism and strict conformance to what Vaillant say, even though (I believe) the latter goes beyond the req...

3 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Help me keep the faith with my air source heat pump installation

They could hang a secondary CU off the existing ASHP MCB and then put the RCD in that - as @ashp-bobba suggests above I believe. They may argue that...

3 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Help me keep the faith with my air source heat pump installation

Im glad you said this. Its reasonable to suppose we get a distorted view on this forum and its important IMHO to be reminded of that from time to tim...

3 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Help me keep the faith with my air source heat pump installation

I think you probably mean RCDs rather than MCBs. Vaillant, in common with many heat pump manufactures, specify Type B RCDs which, unlike the more ...

3 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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