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Noted and dilemma understood. A volumiser may not be needed but it wont do any harm if its plumbed correctly. As it is, its a 2 port buffer and may ...
The sad fact is that you have to check everything some installers and maintainers do, or alternatively hover over them whilst they do their work. In...
@razz You should perhaps take a look at and interrogate this A Cosy owner who has solved excess noise problems with some very simple DiY case mods.
You are lucky they have used 0.5, many surveys use 2-3. With a very low loss home air changes (unless you have MVHR) are going to dominate, they are ...
Welcome to the forum and please feel free to ask any question you wish. Here is my starter for 10 focussing on the ASHP 12kW s...
Since you ask what others think, I think he is very probably talking rubbish and doesn't understand how ASHPs, or indeed weather compensation, works. ...
In the diagram the volumiser is shown as being between flow and return thus acting as a short circuit for the water flow. This is wrong, it should ei...
This is done through the survey. Basically they measure each room, check the construction, and from that you can calculate the loss. You then check ...
Im sure you dont need me to tell you not to let him off the hook until WC is working without him playing in the background!
The main thing with flow is that it must be sufficient, which is basically dependent on the original plumbing and the state of the filters. Cleaning ...
sorry but thats just nonsense. A volumiser can go in flow or return. Flow is arguably better but return is nearly as good and in either case it func...
I know, the sad thing is that big corporations win, small boys lose.
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