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This thread from a couple of years ago goes into more details and as James implies heat loss calculations come first. You may not need the 100mm spaci...
The technology is developing very rapidly right now but there’s no standard interface they are all proprietary. I’ve been doing some research in case ...
@phleach welcome to the forum and what a lovely project to have. To ensure your ufh can be run at the lowest temperature you should get your plumber t...
One or two weeks of summer! Since southern England has a heat wave now in May, you know what you’ll get next, possibly 6 weeks of summer! &...
Hi @ian33a you could do your own heat loss calculation iterating with the conductivity of your walls until you get to the less than 10kW you probably ...
@sunnyskies I agree with Downfield trying to ask the GE community forum since I’ve read before something about ensuring the battery doesn’t stay flat ...
Perhaps it was me but the annual gas consumption does not seem to to be used.
@editor in the spirit of helping out here. I ran the checks on our house, and it points to some inaccuracies in your sums(!) There’s two screenshots h...
It gets curiouser and curiouser… Givenergy have bought another company
@lejamaiscontent There’s a couple of things to add. We also have a solar thermal system so the DHW varies with the season too. The electricity consump...
@jamespa I’ve read as much as I’m willing to on this report. The baseline against which the 6-8% saving in electricity consumption was stated is unt...
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