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Last seen: Jan 5, 2026
Seems any pipework that is leaving the room is insulated so not sure if it would make a a noticeable difference to my bills to insulate the internal p...
Very happy with advice i got here on how to optimize my heat pump. I am finished altering settings as recently finished balancing the house to my liki...
@derek-m ahh OK. Yeah it's the condenser so luckily by the sounds of things.
@derek-m i have phe in my daikin. It seems to be always 0.1deg higher then lwt. Is that the efficiency issue? I'd imagine most daikin Have them as i...
@iancalderbank Yep mine is near 2 degrees colder when it's running according to reading on my unit. Noticed it few times.
Down to -6 last night. Yesterday running fixed flow@31 deg I used 29kwh for heating/dhw. Kitchen 22, othere areas 21/20. Running 9am-11pm. Very happy ...
I would like installers to balance system and work out curve with which lowest flow temp will keep house@21deg and not just go high flow temp to avoid...
Do you mean loop circuit lengths or just heatpump unit being close to manifold?
@derek-m Dont know, I presume i would have to had lowered ft to 28 which would also increase cycling, was cycling at 2 an hour from 7am to 9pm yesterd...
So as predicted i used near 22 (21.9kwh) for the 24hour period compared to just over 13 for the similar weather conditions the previous day, house was...
Happy enough with b scenario. major improvement on last winter. If i spend anymore time in heatpump room, ill be sleeping alone.
@jamespa dunno man, i tried lwt@27 and it cycled a lot as rwt gets up to23-25 easy enough. I get what you are saying but reckon the heatpump is restri...
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