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Should be interesting. Do watch to see if the UFH gets too hot, although if it does then thats a positive outcome!
Sorry to hear that but I'm not surprised TBH. Stratification is effective in a normal unvented tank where the hot water is drawn off at the top. In ...
I wonder if heat pump manufacturers will tone these siting restrictions down. I suspect so. They aren't, so far as I have been able to establish, ac...
Re (2) I misinterpreted your earlier post. The actual requirement is here "(ii)the system providing space heating or water heating, or both, of ...
@newby OK here are my considered thoughts based on info so far: Very sensible! General comments: I think its unlikely, bu...
Loss assessments can be a very serious case of GIGO. I had two, both coming out at 16kW following, in each case, a 3 hour survey. I did the calculat...
You will struggle to persuade an installer to do this and nor would I necessarily advise it without careful thought (although I wouldn't rule it out e...
Hi I will give it some thought but in the mean time I found these capacity tables, basically its 7kW in practice. I have no recollection w...
Firstly very well done indeed for actually doing something leftfield. If nothing else it proves that heat pumps arent so mysterious, tehy are just a ...
Yes. I used data from Home Assistant and a Shelley to capture data last year and this year Im back with Octopus (not because of the data download,...
I think you said its an 11.2kW model and your house is a bit over 8kW. Thats certainly a bit oversized but not unusual by any means. In reality heat...
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