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Our solid-walked garage was made into a heated room using external phenolic insulation 75mm thick, very well taped, then over rendered with silicone ...
@mike-camelot I thought it did have ufh from memory on one of the later updates. Sorry! BUT at first I used an equivalent radiator from the W/m2 heati...
@patrick you won’t fully know until you have it in place. The simple solution to uneven front back heating is leave doors open (our option). The more ...
From my understanding your valves operated as they should they dumped water to save damage to the ashp. You need to find the “away” mode if Midea ha...
@sheriff-fatman no in the middle of tea and making phone calls but husband watched some and he only winced once with the home owner saying “it’s great...
@mike-camelot I have used Heatpunk as well as my own spreadsheet and got both to align with annual heating bills. I have a copy of heat engineer but g...
@sjc123456789 I totally agree withJames’s comments on heat pump size and JohnyB’ on floor insulation. Our house is 200m2 not very well insulated (sold...
I’d choose Vaillant of the two too. We heard too many sorry tales locally from people who couldn’t control their Samsung well. You’ll find them on her...
In our case we deliberately chose to change the cylinder because 1 the cylinder is in our bedroom and whistling pipes if we re-heated overnight wou...
I hadn’t realised they were loose coils until I saw your post and picture. It really is only due to area and possibly the more random the better for t...
@bash we have mostly south facing rooms which would overheat if the radiators were still working on WC plus full sun. In fact in shoulder season the s...
I comparison with the 65kWh used above yesterday was only 16.kWh😆 Which is exactly 4 times less and why the seasonal average works out OK!
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