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We investigated this when we had our wood burner installed. We only use it for very cold/for fun/power cuts, not routinely. Our stove is less than 5...
Carbon capture and store is (rightly or wrongly) a key part of the UK’s net-zero strategy to allow gas generation for peak time usage. It sounds very ...
Oh dear! How close is their behaviour to fraud? Over the line in my personal judgement. I’d be down to Citizens Advice for chapter and verse if it w...
The answer if you’re doing a major renovation is a MVHR, mechanical ventilation with heat recovery. No need for trickle vents, cooker extracts can be ...
@irmartini You’ve got a huge amount of personal work to do clearly If you can add even more insulation in your trench then that will help the heat ...
What sort of system did you end up with, what manufacturer heat pump and what are its settings? There are many contributors on here who will be very...
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...
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RE: 15kw pump for 225m2 1990's house - over kill?
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RE: How will removing the standing charge on gas bills benefit heat pumps?
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