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@jamespa Thanks again for the great comparison. Yes, I certainly was not considering the 9kW one! And I did notice they had the units wrong on there (...
... the property was built in aprox 2020, about 170 sq M, ground floor plus two above, the top floor being essentially a pre-converted loft room, but ...
Wow, thanks for that @jamespa! I actually did 15.0 degrees for the degree day output, so can adjust slightly. I have a feeling that a calculated he...
Thanks @jamespa for showing the variability. Unfortunately for me taking a gas meter reading involves a trip outside the house! I did gather data over...
@editor Good work Mars!
Mythic Beasts are great!
Thanks @jamespa and @toodles. This company has done work for me before so I am pretty comfortable with them.
Ok... I did another one, still not using the DegreeDays concept, but using another snapshot. From 11:55pm on March 3rd to 8:55am on March 4th I used 2...
but an AI gives me a slightly different value (maybe due to Calor rounding that L x 7.1 figure): To calculate the kWh from 2.39 cubic meters...
Hi @bobtskutter ! Thanks for your reply -- I'll have to take some time to digest it, some new concepts in there for me. The kWh figure I arrived at th...
according to degreedays.net, that 16th date (at Gatwick observation station) was about 14.3 heating degree days for the 15.5 base temperature. The 21s...
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