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I have a home brew hybrid system (didn't want to scrap a nearly new boiler). Found the best cost wise was is to switch over from ASHP to gas when you ...
ASHP - air source heat pump PDHW - priory demand hot water. So heating the hot water cylinder on priority over heating, but more importantly allows...
When I had the combi connected as per a combi (now system conversion, ASHP hybrid), it was run as preheat of the cold water prior to entering the comb...
Generally no, because it increases the downward heat losses - you dT between floor and ground is higher. Not necessary to zone, but to make it ru...
It pretty simple to hybridise any heat pump. I did a self funded ASHP install and had a 2 year old boiler, which I didn't see the point in selling for...
I recently removed all the anti freeze from the system, and cleaned to VDI 2035 spec, so very clean water with low conductivity. No anti freeze valv...
Not the best option for ventilation! You will end up with a house that hot and stuffy, the stuffy feeling isn't because it's hot, its rubbish air qual...
If it's for domestic heating systems it's not toxic at all. It's not the same as car antifreeze. The chemist used in a domestic heat system is Food ...
That may be your issue. You have hot water sitting in, I assume is an insulated pipe, so it will not cool quickly. If your pump runs when ever there i...
Your heat pump will give you a water spec to follow. For reference this is what mine says
So I suppose the real question is you house cooling down to much or are temps ok? How is the circulation pump operated on all the time?
To set up weather compensation or water law. You start with a base curve and them manipulate it over a period of time. Warm weather setting. At 20...
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