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@squeakysim actually none ! octopus and Aira do it for free. the last one was via a friend . In some ways paying for a properly independent view (say...
So I've been discussing with the local company a bit more. Both their MCS sheert and Aira heat losses agree on the same heating per year expressed i...
Just to add a bit of my experience with Aira. Their sales team is quite slick and very efficient. Within 1 week I had quote at a good price, and ano...
There's definitely some bull, but octopus did not cover themselves in glory either: it took 10 months and 2 surveys to even get to this stage, and at ...
It's all confusing. He tells me he's beholden by MCS calculations to get the grant, which he knows are too conservative as for instance my MVHR isn't ...
So I did my own HTC using 30 days Jan/Feb including the cold snap and it comes avg 3.3KW heat losses. That's even lower than the surveys . Even if I a...
@judith thanks did you install a 7kw and is it working as expected?
@bontwoody ooh that’s a great one thanks. Lots of geeky things to dig into
I did a review of the assumptions of the heat losses and a decent part of it is down to design temp, for Octopus and Aira they use 19 for hallways and...
@hcas well spotted - they were going to install a 8KW .
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