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@scalextrix for our house 1950s detached the air leakage proportion was30% of the supposed total, using the default values. In fact with the measureme...
The usual problems are not including known insulation improvements or the defaults for air leakage. If you have an actual air loss measurement it ca...
@westkent sorry to hear that you were mis-advised, but sadly not surprised. If it were me I would want to move as a matter of principle and several of...
Certainly our Givenergy battery shows the same effect with the newest software. It is deliberately designed to reduce the rate of charge so it has a “...
@johnmo no external air supply, just the room air. We do have CO detectors and never had any alarms. But the measured flow on the MVHR system vent ...
We have a cassette style inset stove, much more efficient than an open fire, which is less than 5kW so doesn’t require any deliberate ventilation. It ...
@westkent assuming you’re still writing about the Vaillant/OVO 15p for heat pumps offer, I thought the offer was now “full”. If the topic has wander...
If you want to read a huge amount of speculation, fabrication and prejudice dressed up as fact you can read Linked-in. Sadly it’s getting more FB like...
Back to Iberia: some more information and explanations of terms here. The “shake” in the Aragon-Catalonia corridor caused the French interconnect...
We have one and it’s a bit undersized since it was the original on the hotter water gas system. But nevertheless we only needed to flick it on for a f...
“What we really need is an Industry Regular who is charged with the responsibility to act in the best interests of consumers....” what an excell...
There was a call today for Ripple investors and amongst other topics one was if you bought shares on credit card then there may be options for recover...
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