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A couple of years ago I was in conversation with a senior lecturer at an FE College who provided courses for students in the building trades. He tol...
The market-leading additives for circulatory water in radiators are Fernox F1 or Sentinel X100. It is often the case that the heating engineer attac...
@johnmo - you're providing excellent insights into the options and requirements...... if only I understood all those Three Letter Abbreviations (TLAs...
Erm... yes, but that's bad practice. As GB moves towards Net Zero, the topology of the grid is being adapted.We can't all demand electricity when we...
It's highly unlikely that anyone using LiFePO4 battery chemistry for domestic storage would ever want to be charging or discharging the cells at 'C' ...
I've had a quick look at the videos published on that YouTube link @hominid The presenter (in Ireland) appears to be using a Solis inverter and in a...
Hi @homonid and welcome to this forum. I have extensive experience of DIY build batteries and charging regimes.Perhaps you could start by telling us...
I agree with @judith - MVHR is the way forward.A slow trickle of pre-warmed air is great at discouraging mould and condensation. I have self-install...
Please clarify: Were they suggesting that the installation would be guaranteed by MCS?Or does 'them' refer to the contractors? Even if they were...
Do you have a reference for that directive @toodles ? Before raising issues with her installer, @ellyse will need to sure that she can back up any c...
Erm, @lucia are you referring to this graphic in the Grudian article? The small print says that was based on Future Energy Scenarios analysis by N...
@ellyse - There may have been a reason why your system needed to start its life with a high temperature run...... although I can't think of one. Nev...
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