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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...
If the pump is PWM controlled, flow rates will be adjusted automatically by the heat pump, most pumps aren't though. So you need to set the flow rates...
You need to get an idea of pipe size and length and number of bends etc. Look at current secondary pump current settings. Where it sits speed wise....
I would be careful you don't fall down a rabbit hole. Modulation seems to vary massively with different heating systems, flow temp etc. irrespective o...
Think you may be thinking too much. So first Has your heat pump got its own pump, if so the plan is to use that and not change it. So to enable t...
MEV - Mechanical Extract Ventilation. A central extract unit, that takes damp air out of wet room (bathrooms etc). Demand flow rate, varies flow based...
You need to ensure your house is pretty airtight ideally 3ACH or better at 50Pa. Otherwise you are just adding additional ventilation to and from the...
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