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RE: Book: Not Zero

I was intrigued by this post so had a look on Amazon as Jeff sugests. The book has (today) 281 ratings and an overall score of 4.7, so it ought to be ...

11 months ago
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Well & Truly Off The Grid
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RE: Avoid the Heat Pump Villain: Why Low-Loss Headers and Buffers Can Sabotage Your Heat Pump's Efficiency

Thats great to read! Have you any detailed figures? Is the benefit more in shoulder season or in the coldest periods for example?

11 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Air source heat pump roll call

Forum Handle: JudithManufacturer: VaillantModel: Aro THERM Plus 7kW (achieves 8.3kW)Type: ASHPArrangement: MonoArea of Country: South CoastHome Type: ...

11 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Interesting new product for woodburners - Recoheat

We investigated this when we had our wood burner installed. We only use it for very cold/for fun/power cuts, not routinely. Our stove is less than 5...

11 months ago
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Wood Burners, Biomass, Small Scale, Biofuels & Other Heating Alternatives
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RE: Biomass Strategy 2023

Carbon capture and store is (rightly or wrongly) a key part of the UK’s net-zero strategy to allow gas generation for peak time usage. It sounds very ...

11 months ago
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Wood Burners, Biomass, Small Scale, Biofuels & Other Heating Alternatives
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RE: In the middle of an ASHP installation - a few questions

Oh dear! How close is their behaviour to fraud? Over the line in my personal judgement. I’d be down to Citizens Advice for chapter and verse if it w...

11 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: How to Solve Mould and Mildew Issues in Renovated Properties

The answer if you’re doing a major renovation is a MVHR, mechanical ventilation with heat recovery. No need for trickle vents, cooker extracts can be ...

11 months ago
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Your Home
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RE: Gas Combi to ASHP - Making sense of survey results and proposal.

@irmartini You’ve got a huge amount of personal work to do clearly If you can add even more insulation in your trench then that will help the heat ...

11 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Gas Combi to ASHP - Making sense of survey results and proposal.

What sort of system did you end up with, what manufacturer heat pump and what are its settings? There are many contributors on here who will be very...

11 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Simulation of ASHP with Gas boiler as part of decision process

There is a factor which is glaring to me which is average heat loss with IAT of 18.5 (ish) versus std calculation temp of 21 for living areas. So 7kW ...

12 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Simulation of ASHP with Gas boiler as part of decision process

For the OP we found heating the house with the gas boiler with manual WCand our limit of lower water leaving temperature of 60C (since DHW could not b...

12 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Simulation of ASHP with Gas boiler as part of decision process

That sort of heat loss isn’t in any calculation I know and therefore there will be no improvement to show. BUT as a result the std survey won’t find i...

12 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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