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@toodles Here’s mine from yesterday. We are 5 person household at the moment, the big peak is the DHW cycle.
@old_scientist Thats good, it would have explained the colour at least. With the glycol, possible organic acids complicate the potential causes o...
@old_scientist To exclude it being a biofilm of sulphate reducing bacteria, if you sniff the brownish water, does it smell sulphurous or eggy?
@toodles sorry it’s not worked out for you, not much of summer left anyway. It seems you have all your heavy loads in the evening whereas I schedule...
Don’t forget, it’s not the headspace gases that are the issue. It’s the dissolved oxygen in the heating fluid that’s key. Either there wasn’t any/insu...
The colour suggests ferric oxide, ie rust. Or something of that colour that has been added to the system, but I think that unlikely. My sludge is bl...
@toodles Such elegant symmetry. look at my lumpy bag of bolts, the polar opposite. Clouds and trees and G99 limits.
@old_scientist There is a degree of nuance to the calculation. Remember that you are using a PW3 that has a unique unlimited cycle warranty in the ...
@old_scientist The service engineer powered down the external unit for about 3 hours, he removed and inspected/cleaned and tightened every single elec...
@old_scientist Thank you, yes, yours look how mine used to look. I’ve already tried the obvious, a reset, so I’ll call Samsung support. I bet it happe...
@toodles My bad, I was looking at the import! 🤪 im 29.25.
@toodles I humbly suggest, at 35p you want to be able to ditch as much as your export allows in the+4-7pm band, it doesn’t matter if you have to buy a...
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