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We’ve been relying on people doing heat loss evaluations to size the heat pump and two different ones came back with similar suggestions so we were ho...
@jamespa Thanks very much. I appreciate you’re probably sick of newbies coming along and asking questions but I’m genuinely trying to educate myself...
@bontwoody Thanks. I really do appreciate the advice from everyone. It’s all helping get my head around the new normal of a heat pump.
The Polypipe UFH system is set up with two manifolds (one on each level of the house) and a thermostat in every room.I’ve attached a photo of the mani...
@bontwoody That’s great. Thank you.And is it normal that when the weather compensation is activated, I can’t make any manual adjustments to the flow t...
Thank you. I’d literally just found that video as I couldn’t figure out what was meant by “Control Logic”. I tried reducing the flow temperature to 35...
I get the impression that they’re just trying to replicate a conventional boiler for people. Which is utterly nuts but I’m guessing it makes life easi...
We’re in a 130 m2 split level bungalow so that’s really encouraging. We’re not exactly hermetically sealed but we’re pretty airtight and insulated so ...
Thanks for the extensive info here. Can I just make sure I understand this… so the idea is to ramp up the thermostats so that there’s a constant call...
@tim441 Thanks for that. The Weather Compensation settings are definitely something I need to get my head round. The installers told us to ignore that...
@bontwoody thanks very much for that. Weather compensation is something we really need too look at. The installers told us not to bother with it. ...
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