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There is a factor which is glaring to me which is average heat loss with IAT of 18.5 (ish) versus std calculation temp of 21 for living areas. So 7kW ...
For the OP we found heating the house with the gas boiler with manual WCand our limit of lower water leaving temperature of 60C (since DHW could not b...
That sort of heat loss isn’t in any calculation I know and therefore there will be no improvement to show. BUT as a result the std survey won’t find i...
I strongly recommend a door pressure test. We had one done for ~£300 and it showed our air leakage was less than one air change per hour. Since we hav...
Our newly fitted shower system was regularly running to cold if paused. The excellent plumber fitting the ashp solved it by fitting a pressure control...
When our condensing boiler was fitted 14 years ago (too big but who cared?) we were told very clearly that it only needed to be on high when winter wa...
Vaillant service for the application installation was great, one engineer visit and 4 extensive replies from the help desk. BUT tbh it should have bee...
Heatpunk is very good and I was able to get an accurate result from thatwhich agreed with the sanity check of the annual gas bill. if you want to do...
I think I have only just understood a point that I think @transparent has made a couple of times. As a direct consequence of there only being one U...
We’ve just had a Vaillant installed (literally finished today) and the installer (Heatgeek elite) and Vaillant support has been excellent. So personal...
A separate reply about ventilation. The heat loss survey method includes heat loss through ventilation both deliberate and unplanned (otherwise know...
I totally agree with James’ approach of keep the heat pump running continuously during the coldest periods and use set back for overnight lower temper...
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