Last seen: May 11, 2025
Follow up self with further thoughts; During my working career, I saw a fair few failures of one sort or another whilst working in the DIY trade, th...
@jamespa I rather feel that a successful installation is best achieved through team effort rather than a one man band job. Just imagine just one train...
The 18 kW/h heat pump is presumably the rated output rather than consumption? Being a little pessimistic so perhaps a COP of 3.0 meaning 6 kW/h requir...
@transparent Education, Education, Education! Toodles.
@derek-m Oh well, we are not alone then! Toodles.
@allyfish As I was reading the bumph about Scandi weather, I was thinking exactly the same! Apart from perhaps in Indonesia , are there any other such...
@transparent I’ll keep my investment with Ripple Energy with digits overlapping…. Regards, Toodles
@derek-m 🤣 Toodles (The security system took a dislike to me)
@derek-m They wish to impress upon us that the fresh air is free (I’m not so sure about the ‘fresh’, especially after the latest UK government announc...
@derek-m Heating on the “never-never’? Regards, Toodles (Glad to be able to post again! (Sigh)
@crimson It really is looking more likely that the downstairs rads need a serious uprating now. Your heat pump has the capacity, your pipework will pr...
@hughf As it is a ‘Hard Task’ (and I don’t doubt it when I see what a failure my two installer companies staff have been!) it strikes me that someone ...
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