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RE: How To Balance Radiators & the Role of the Lockshield Valve: A Homeowner's Guide

On the grounds that turning the pump speed down didnt help I would put it back up again. Slow flow = higher deltaT across radiators = higher FT neede...

7 months ago
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Thermostats, Volumisers, Buffer Tanks, TRVs, Pumps, Piping, Valves, Radiators & Controls
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RE: Rate the quality of your heat pump design and installation

Only half!

7 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Not a good January? My heat pump used 840 KWh of electricity

Quite likely not but...with two pumps you have the opportunity to get a very good turndown/modulation ratio and a level of redundancy against failure....

7 months ago
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RE: How To Balance Radiators & the Role of the Lockshield Valve: A Homeowner's Guide

Sorry thats lots of numbers, but no clear explanation what they are measuring. What is needed is the temperatures of flow to and return from the rad...

7 months ago
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RE: ASHP & Radiator Sizing - Measuring Heat Loss

That's correct. You probably will need to measure flow rate though, spec sheet will likely just be a pump curve.

7 months ago
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RE: How To Balance Radiators & the Role of the Lockshield Valve: A Homeowner's Guide

So heating pipes go from 22 copper to 22 plastic to 28 copper? What a lazy sod of a plumber who fitted the heat pump Would it be practical to replac...

7 months ago
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RE: ASHP & Radiator Sizing - Measuring Heat Loss

Thats definitely a reasonable suspicion. The initial results fom my heat pump suggest my condensing boiler (which was operated at FT50/55 so should b...

7 months ago
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RE: How To Balance Radiators & the Role of the Lockshield Valve: A Homeowner's Guide

With your insulation upgrades its quite possible that you may be able to dispense with the buffer without changing the pipework. Can you clarify the ...

7 months ago
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RE: Looking for some advice – no viable installer/system – I'm stuck

Wow, thats a lot of gas - you said 120 sq m is that the total floor area or just the ground floor footprint? For comparison my 200sq m detached was a...

7 months ago
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RE: How To Balance Radiators & the Role of the Lockshield Valve: A Homeowner's Guide

If you were willing to supply more info I could probably give you a good idea if just scrapping the buffer will work. How old is the installat...

7 months ago
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RE: Looking for some advice – no viable installer/system – I'm stuck

He is correct this is written into the BUS rules. Just to get a feel for what you need in terms of capacity: Whats your annual gas consumption, h...

7 months ago
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