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Our PV set-up has moved over time. Warning this is a shaggy dog story. Originally we had 17 Sharp panels on South facing roof giving 3.98kW of power...
@rob-of-york Hi Rob, we paid ~£350 for an air leakage test and it was worth every penny. It gave our installer hard evidence to not use the MCS defa...
I’m really liking reading through this thread and the robust logic being applied. My contribution is less analytical but may act as a sanity check. Yo...
Thank you Rusty, all of those subtleties were lost on me. Since I’m only ever a second-hand car buyer it does mean I will have limited options, but kn...
Are you aware that the Kia EV2 is one of the few models which will do vehicle to home/grid with an appropriate wall-box. That makes the NexBlue Point ...
Like @jamespa we ran our gas boiler at 55-60C for a year with 24hr operation and an overnight lower temperature. That was about the radiator limit an...
when our system was installed in September 2 years ago the house was already 25C inside. So with the heating mode set to target 35C the windows were w...
What an excellent extensive report. It sets my expectations back to 1-2degrees of cooling. Thank you very much
Our ashp service is booked for a couple of weeks from now and we’ve ask our installer to do the modification to allow it to cool. He reckons it might ...
@jamespa I assume “volunteer” should be volumiser?
@etchedpixels I did know about custom cut-outs in double glazing panels we had one years ago for a cat flap(!) Our house is detached and my tentativ...
@jandp awesome system I hope it works out well.
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