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I would be willing to bet that, with a sensible value for ACH it will work out at 4-8kW, ie not a value that helps us a lot given the uncertainties, a...
Thank you for your response. Assuming that the house has been built to current building regs, and once the insulation defects are fixed, it'm a lit...
Horizontal cylinders are fundamentally less effective than vertical cylinders because, in a vertical cylinder, the water 'stratifies' so that the hot ...
@newby Sorry to hear about your problems Can I just check my understanding. Firstly a question about the situation: Is this 'built for...
Well thats clearly nonsense. If a £280 pump failed in a boiler you would replace the pump, as you would in an ASHP. Sadly that's true of many th...
The fact that when the demand (ie house loss) is less than the minimum that the heat pump can turn down to' the heat pump will cycle on and off so tha...
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