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@toodles FYI flux is back. Think it was today.
@springswood The most flexible and cost effective way of manage solar gain is via those metallic black out roller blinds on the south facing aspect...
External shading is best, but a light coloured or reflective curtain is still going to reduce solar gain by about a third as some of the radiation is...
@etchedpixels A few warmish days or a bit of snow and the country falls apart. We’d be so screwed if there ever was a war, the Russkies are out in ...
@majordennisbloodnok evapoative cooling in the summer, it works very well. The plants transpire and whatever the substrate is dries off in the sun....
@majordennisbloodnok Yes, it sounds a recipe for Aspergillus Niger, didn’t think about the underfloor copper. The Swiss in their usual wisdom banned A...
@jamespa Have you ever tried yours in cooling? I’d imagine that to get any significant cooling output the rads would be dripping condensation all over...
Here’s me. Found my output when I control the battery and export is slightly better than when IOF controls the export. Seems AI isn’t as smart as ever...
@jeff I revel in my oversimplification however, the policy changes were promised to deliver quarter on quarter reductions in domestic and industria...
I remember it was only a couple of months ago that someone on the forum was adamant that the latest genius Milliband energy policy was going to drive ...
@majordennisbloodnok Its not going to happen, it takes us 20 years not to build a new runway. There are so many infrastructure and housing revision...
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RE: Volumisers in Heat Pump Systems: Does Placement Matter?
Volumisers are normally plumbed so that they are in the...
By JamesPa , 3 hours ago
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@toodles possibly. The £9k labour charge for 4-5 days w...
By AndrewJ , 8 hours ago
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RE: Plug and play solar. Thoughts?
My thought is simple. Bring it on and bring on plug in...
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RE: Heat Geek mini store vs pump size
Yes I agree, that’s why Heat Geek have most likely sele...
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?
@chandykris Swings and Roundabouts, you win some…. ...
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@tomtheheatingengineer, thank you, and welcome to the f...
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RE: HeatGeek vs Octopus surveys: puzzling disparity - any ideas why?
@majordennisbloodnok @tomtheheatingengineer For my ...
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RE: Do I add Air Con or MVHR to existing A2W ASHP?
There is scope for product development here. I for one...
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RE: Is the "divide by 2900" rule still valid?
Really flow rate is a pipework limitation not a water p...
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RE: The good, the bad and the not that great – my heat pump installation
@burtis, I’ve followed this thread pretty much from the...
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RE: Starting Our Heat Pump Journey: 1962 build 3 bed detached house
First time poster here but I can share my experience as...
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RE: Is it the house or the equipment?
...which, I've found out, is pretty much impossible to ...
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