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If you find the spec sheet of a 12kW Midea it’s only about 10kW at -2C (design temp for a lot of south England) whereas the 11kW Mitsubishi could actu...
The above beautifully detailed reply by Ray shows the issue of units used. Air changes per hour ACH are easy to visualise and hence a larger room volu...
If you want to get into engineering /architectural details the there are a couple of good blogs from guys, one with a solid wall cottage
Personally I wouldn’t touch BG with a barge pole, based on 2 family experiences with them when they went into solar. On your own heat loss estimate ...
Or is refusal to burn wood when the market price is above the strike price (and the system needs power presumably) simply gaming the system to maximis...
I’ve been educating myself on electricity supply issues and the above research briefing is a balanced summary. Newspapers and statements from companie...
@derek-m and others i think I’m getting there, so can I try this out…..? There are too many dTs in this game. Derek rightly corrected me on averag...
We’ve just had ufh in our (not yet finished) extension but the rest of the house has radiators (and will stay that way). We really had to insist that ...
Naive input here: I understand that LLH are supposed to act as impedance transformers (when set up right), giving the option of a higher delta T acr...
I’m not that stupid, but I’m having trouble getting my head around this, science, engineering, physics, control engineering and programme management t...
Aaaaah! your situation is more complicated than I realised!
@toodles I asked the plumber who was installing this yesterday (we’re only going to use the electric version in the summer when the water isn’t bei...
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