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JamesPa
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RE: Radiator Question

Vertical rads are less effective per unit area, I assume (but dont know for certain) that they factor this into the quoted performance Other than th...

3 months ago
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RE: One room is colder than the rest of the house

Yes. There is nothing sacrosanct about DT5 even on aggregate, and certainly not for any individual radiator. Furthermore if all the rads have been b...

3 months ago
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RE: Air source heat pump roll call – what heat pump brand and model do you have?

@ecoste, @walnut-tree-cottage these are both great pieces of kit. As I am sure you know running a heat pump is rather different to running a boiler....

3 months ago
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RE: One room is colder than the rest of the house

Its key to understand this, and it applies more generally. 'Unheated' rooms are in fact heated from adjacent rooms, which means that the rads in thos...

3 months ago
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RE: New build installation query

Agree with the above. What diagrams/instructions do you have, what model of heat pump, some photos including photos of the controller settings. In ...

3 months ago
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RE: One colder room

Upgrading radiators is almost never a bad thing to do, what's the payback time and is there a requirement for it to be cooler at night (if so how do y...

3 months ago
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RE: What should we do with our Aga?

What sort of modification is 'needed'? Presumably if it previously heated the hot water there are some pipes and maybe a pump that take heat away to ...

3 months ago
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RE: The Hidden Secret to a Successful Heat Pump: Pipe Size Matters

17l/min is enough for only 6kW at 5C DT, not surprising a 12kW Panasonic complained! How did the installer ever think it was going to work?  

3 months ago
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RE: Midea ASHP – how to set weather compensation

@pash44pump Hopefully @cathoderay has demonstrated the value of measured data! Its good to look at everything together though, picking the result tha...

3 months ago
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RE: My experience with 3 heat pump surveys: Heat Geek, British Gas & Octopus

@mars it seems madness giving you advice but I feel I must. Whatever figure(s) you get somehow find a way to check them against your oil consumption ...

3 months ago
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