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I just want to repeat and emphasise that, in simple terms, you have to choose between radiator balancing, in which the householder must currently play...
The following relates only to the temperatures, the noise matter is a separate one on which I wont comment. OK so the only actual issue ...
If you insist on this functionality then your principal options are, so far as I can see: 1. Get an R290 heat pump which is about the right capacit...
er, if you do this how will the heat pump ever know to switch on? The obvious thing is to tie it to the heat pump's water pump so it switches on whene...
Here are the BUS rules, note in particular 9(d) Part L of the Building regulations here is also relevant, particularly L1b To be brutally hones...
I am sorry to hear about the problems. My advice to you would be focus on a small number of provable issues to avoid any possibility that you are per...
@harriworld Who is TJ? In answer to your question it depends on what the actual problem that the buffer is trying to solve is! (a) If the underl...
Yes but... If the effect of the buffer is to allow the system to 'get away' with a lower flow rate to the emitters (and thus higher DT for any given...
I think its worth turning this question on its head in the case of Octopus and worth asking: notwithstanding the apparent limitations of their install...
@editor @gruff2001 FWIW mine was also audited. The problem I perceive based on my experience is that (it appears) that the installer has to identi...
I don't know exactly how long it takes to heat up (and to specify I would need to specify conditions) but in very general terms its 24 hours+ for the ...
I dont, because I dont turn it off unless Im going away for several days, and in that case the technology to schedule a timed restart (and if necessar...
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