Last seen: Aug 10, 2025
Totally agree. We had our MVHR pipes put in first (6inch like above) and the guy who installed it was great. He took my plans of the house and pipe ...
@cathoderay I’m really pleased to read you have some sense (not 100% as you want/need) but making progress, thanks to your persistence and @bobtskutte...
@andrewj the trick is to get the radiator size roughly right and a bit too big, by design and then turn them permanently down with lock shield valve (...
@mike-patrick it looks as if your pump is in a local hollow, does the cold air from the pump hang around there or does it dissipate? Have any of the e...
Ours used 993kWh of electricity for heating and DHW in January. As below a7kW Vaillant heating a190m^2 house, (1950s) with supplementary wood burner u...
Our 6kW produced the lowest ever day this week 0.3kWh!
I’ve only just noticed the “subscribe to this topic” tick box! Now I’ve seen it I’ll unsubscribe in general since I have to delete a lot of stuff from...
@chandyKris We had to turn one of the bedroom radiators to nearly off to force the water to flow to the lounge two. At first the installer did the bal...
@editor I must learn how to select an emoji to indicate extreme irony, or probably better still don’t indulge it in writing. You kindly showed the rig...
I’m assuming that this means that as installer mistakes go this way of piping up a buffer is pretty bad? The correction should be to re-pipe it as a v...
@chansug new radiators work well with all boilers, just turn the temperature down on the boiler so you get improved efficiency as a benefit A 12kW a...
@transparent I got as far as realising that patience would be a necessity! I did know the above at a superficial level but you have spelt it out clear...
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