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Hi @david-s, Good point about nothing being rodent proof. However, it also looks like the insulation is degrading anyway, presumably from UV, so I'v...
Hi everyone 🙂 I found this thread searching about rodents eating pipe insulation. The insulation on the outdoor pipes for our heat pump is being ea...
Hi everyone, Thanks for clarifying my misunderstanding about the role of the condenser and that heat pumps actually work better with dry air not hum...
Hi all, I agree, the consultation documents are always too long and wordy. However, if anyone wants to share their views on this as part of a wider ...
Hi @judith, Please excuse me, I'd misunderstood when you wrote "i spent ages on it", I thought this meant it was you that made the tool. I can't b...
Hi @judith,, Thank you for that link, I wasn't aware of that website, it's very helpful. I looked for heat pumps to compare to the one we've got (GD...
Yes, I'd read that and already knew that LSVs exhibit a kind of logarithmic behaviour, but knowing it unfortunately doesn't change the actual valves I...
In our case the pipe run for the heat pump is short and large bore to a heat exchanger, so it's a bit more complicated. Interesting that a smaller del...
I think that most of the others work by PID as well, I just didn't confirm it with tech support. I think a DIY solution is possible using TRVs that ex...
Hi everyone, Coming back on this topic. I've experimented, removed the smart TRVs, done the balancing, set the TRVs a couple of degrees above the ...
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