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I don’t think it is a specific legal requirement- other than to be safe. And there is a risk. My point is to take a more balanced view of risks. See...
R290 could be a HP show stopper for me. Seems to me we need some acceptable risk mitigations in some circumstances, other than just moving the unit fu...
Thank you. PfB is one of my go-to guys but I hadn’t seen that. My situation is quite similar to the one described: visual intrusion and noise limits a...
Follow-up: it occurs to me that the difference between flow and return temperatures is potentially a good indicator of whether you have enough radiato...
Interesting, thank you. The marine diesel analogy was on my mind. At the other end is a F1 engine needing to be rebuilt after every race. You would th...
Thank you. I definitely plan a full flush. The pipework is 40 years old, but we have been here since 1988 and never had problems eg with balancing or ...
@judith that method is great isn’t it! Except I have about 6 different consumption based estimates using that approach going back to 2016. And two spo...
Thank you, my hunch is it is just old school plumbing as you suggest. The logic of a backup/auxiliary is that it is additional when required- not a ta...
@johnr thanks, great minds etc. if the backup ends up being used too much, by fallback is to add an air to air with three internal units in the key ro...
@jamespa also: I assume the fan radiator has a lower water volume? We are looking at a simple one zone, no TRVs, no buffer/volumiser system, so need e...
thanks both. I think that calculation gives a lower heat output by about 20% than the HG rule of thumb table I linked above. As he is the one guarante...
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