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an update now the weather is much colder and we lost the concept of solar gain months back. We gradually had to increase the curve to 0.65 to compensa...
@johnnyb that’s very interesting to read!
On this forum with advanced monitoring available a Mitsubishi user whose pump was oversized recommended the cloud based auto-adaptation function to im...
I agreed with your approach on the other thread and so pulling out the general case is a better way of capturing it.
I feel the best first question after establishing that a heat pump is over-sized (even massively so say 3x) is does that affect efficiency? John Can...
it’s much more efficient to run a heat pump continuously but for everyone in the end it’s about money. So if you were able to run only on the cosy che...
@iraknic have you established that you can hear your system? Ours is very much quieter than the old gas fired boiler, no radiator creaking for example...
@sicky I can’t separate out the garage EWI easily since it was part of a bigger job. The insulation was 70mm which is about what you need for building...
@boycey The only added wrinkle for your flat is that 5kW is a lot for a 2bed flat so your pump perhaps could be on for less time. UFH often has a “lon...
@sicky our garage was made into a warm room using external insulation and its usual to use a system, primer, glue, fixings, board, render. Ours happen...
Perhaps you should sort out /have someone else sort out your system and then you’ll will know what matters. I know several posters here have told you ...
I spotted our value ages ago buried deep in a document/menu but now can’t re-find it! It will be the same 4C as JamesPa’s value, assuming it’s the d...
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