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@tim441 Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes and …YES! We all know it, I’m sure all the individual members of all the authorities know it too! What we all don’t seem to...
@mikeh Spoilsport!😉 Actually, I have only been outside at the appropriate time to see our pump defrost once in nearly two years - but it is q...
@judith There is one thing that history teaches us - we don’t learn from history. Toodles.
@bontwoody We all learn summat every day - it is just that some of us (me in particular) forget to remember it!😉 Regrets, Toodles.
@alfapat One would expect the flow to be into the emitter from the TRV but, my installers informed me that the modern valve bodies are so made that di...
@lucia I have not attempted to tot up my volume of water but 10 radiators plus a dual fuel towel rail seem to keep the defrosts to perhaps 90 minutes ...
@alfapat The radiator / emitter that takes the longest to heat up will be the one LSV that remains fully open and all others will then end up somewher...
@alfapat Start by throttling down the first to heat up, then the next to heat up…. ALL the emitters / radiators should be regarded as components of on...
@alfapat I would think starting froma common 1.5 turns open would be a good start - unless there is an emitter at the end of the run that might suffer...
And as a post script: When you commence the balancing exercise, you will be running around the radiators checking which is heating up the quickest (i....
@alfapat Adjusting an LSV to provide a temperature setting is probably the start of a road to frustration and madness; as the name suggests, it is to ...
@transparent We had one chappie from SGN call at the door (just checking his paperwork and that we weren’t half inching any gas I think), his opening ...
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