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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...
@lucia another thought is flow temp. I played around with our house on heat punk to address this question. If I adjust our radiators to those needed f...
@lucia I’ve been having a think about your choice. Which magazine says the ovo tarrif is the best followed by octopus agile then octopus cosy. I th...
Here’s a good demonstration of the variation with buffer or 4 port that @heacol is referring to. Possibly better posted in the very long llh thread. ...
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