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I was chatting to a Vaillant engineer last week. He reckoned that about half of his heat pump call outs were due to poor design/ installation. And tha...
@jamespa Thanks James. I’ve requested a call out from Vaillant, via my installer, and provided a recording of the sound and meter reading. I also have...
@gary This was at -1.1 so not a particularly taxing operating temperature. The pump was also heating the house at the time, not defrosting or heating ...
Appreciate this is an old post but I’m experiencing the same thing in the current cold snap. At freezing temperatures, my Arotherm Plus 7KW unit makes...
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