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A good start but I’m glad I didn’t need to learn something. Perhaps my questions were ambiguous but. Got contradictory answers on room stats and the w...
Thanks @lucia I look forward to some technical facts as well as executive summaries. The foreign reports are not separate investigations just translat...
Our system starts cycling below ~8C and I’ve tried to tie that to output kW and lost interest. Our system is high volume plus a volumiser so it cycles...
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@morganr Hi, like you I did an awful lot of my own calculations to ensure I knew what was needed. So I appreciate how much time you’ve put into it, we...
@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 ...
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