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@johndwyer surprisingly the Givenergy forum is still live but might shut down any time soon. But in the meantime you might get an answer from one of t...
It’s the flow through the pipe. If the pump is trying to push more through into the cylinder than the diameter allows then it can “sing”. I probably s...
good! This particular add-on had become unnecessary after coal had gone and was just another tax, but in the wrong place (electricity)
Your ‘hand waving’ above isn’t too far off mostly. Our 200m2 detached house has a 400W/C value. We need 8kW which the 7kW Vaillant supplies, but you m...
@martinrobinson you’ve addressed all of the key issues about changing the cylinder. We concluded that we could live with the slower heat up time (but ...
I’ve been googling some reviews of these (and looking at the Amazon pricing). The main feature of several of these balcony solar products is they are ...
Sigenergy have a cloud based control system, like Givenergy, which is currently exercising many people’s worry beads because GE hardware have gone bus...
@jamespa I too will have a browse on the full 84 pages. But one thing jumped out at me on the summary, the radiators were sized to true room need givi...
Hi Jain, we’ve got an ashp so I’m afraid we won’t be your purchaser. But would you mind telling us us how come you ended up with 2 spare pumps? Just f...
Keep trying with your installer since he’s at least aware of what is happening. At some point you might need to discuss with your installer changing t...
what little I know on the subject is (and all subject to my misremembering or misunderstanding originally) *the UK has larger mains plugs to includ...
This is a (very long) but fascinating read on the link, of how the present solar/battery technology developed If this sort of stuff interests you it...
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