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Several years ago we went away for a weekend in the middle of a cold snap and without giving any thought to the heat recovery time I turned the heatin...
It did cross my mind but I'm trying to ignore that so please don't remind me 🤣 Hopefully the loss will be very small. I will try it once the...
That is quite concerning as I have a Samsung Gen 6 in our current house and have just had a Gen7 R290 installed in what will be soon be our new home. ...
I leave the zappi in eco+ so it doesn't allow the car to charge and have a boost timer set from 23.30 to 5.30 and the ready by time on Octopus set for...
With a 'blower door' test. I assume at 50pa as that is the pressure that is always mentioned. I have read that the pressure can be increased to try a...
The best thing to get the heat from the UFH to the house is concrete screed and tiles. We have 60mm screed and tiles and the floor stays warm for seve...
Passive house standard is 0.6ACH if I remember correctly so 0.5 is a low figure. I know someone who built to passive standard and was very careful wi...
Well, I guess I will see how it goes, but it does sound like the pump is a 'nice to have' but needs using a little carefully if it isn't going to cool...
@ngillam @marzipan71 Did either of you test out the best way to run your pump to be as efficient as possible? Our heating system is being fitted at t...
My understanding is Homely sets the target flow temperature and switches the heating or DHW on or off. The Samung controller carries on as it was set ...
The reason I said the voltages vary slightly is because the Solis inverter has a screen that shows the grid and inverter voltages for each phase, alon...
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