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@pie eater the difference you can’t see will be air leakage usually. There are many assumptions about how many air changes per hour your house has due...
Aaaaaah, that’s gas boiler thinking! and the recipe for problems with ashp. As several people are explaining better then I can, an over-sized pump wil...
The reason the other heat pumps failed may be that the houses have zones, NOT good with heat pumps, and as the pumps is big then it needs a minimum wa...
Oh dear! Don't let them change radiator for lower wattage ones! There are experts on the forum who would like to see the full proposals. Can you upl...
@pie_eater our install date is in September we’ve just had some bigger radiators changed so far, (not all rooms needed larger). it is pure BS to say...
@lucia you can’t improve the emitters to get more wattage out of a heat pump. All you can do is put an electric fire on! or wear more clothes and l...
@lucia don’t whatever you do go with a 4kW Daikin, our annual gas bill of 18000kWh means we need a 6.7kW ashp your 16000 means you need a 5.5kW (ish) ...
Air in the system?
I plumped for brand reputation but that doesn’t really fully encompass it. All of the above might have. For me mitsubishi or Vaillant yes daikin...
@johnmo max flow temp of 32C! Do you have huge radiators or very little heat loss? You can’t be describing ufh since it’s responding too quickly.
Going back to the original post and Octopus are partnering with heat geek and today’s plumbers were chatting about this at lunchtime as to how it wil...
Each installer/designer can have their own idiocies one wouldnt count our cavity wall insulation because we couldn’t prove it was still working aft...
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